Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 08:26:07 schrieb Dominic Fandrey: > Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 07:32:16 schrieb Jason C. Wells: > >> Norberto Meijome wrote: > >>> But I agree with Wojciech..do you really want to use swap files? > >> > >> One could mount an md fi

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Heiko Wundram (Beenic) wrote: Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 07:32:16 schrieb Jason C. Wells: Norberto Meijome wrote: But I agree with Wojciech..do you really want to use swap files? One could mount an md filesystem and then use that as swap. That way you wouldn't need to use any disc space.

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 07:32:16 schrieb Jason C. Wells: > Norberto Meijome wrote: > > But I agree with Wojciech..do you really want to use swap files? > > One could mount an md filesystem and then use that as swap. That way > you wouldn't need to use any disc space. As a plus, the perform

Re: is there a 2.3.x package for OO?

2008-02-06 Thread Gaspar Chilingarov
My personal choice is to run 32-bit Linux version of OO under linux emulation (2.4.x branch) First of all it survives FreeBSD base system/gcc/etc updates pretty well :) when using native one you should fiddle with compat libraries sometimes and so on. Second -- it runs faster than native one

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread Jason C. Wells
Norberto Meijome wrote: But I agree with Wojciech..do you really want to use swap files? One could mount an md filesystem and then use that as swap. That way you wouldn't need to use any disc space. As a plus, the performance would be way better than disc. Regards, Jason Wells __

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread OutBackDingo
Yeah you might want to attach the kernel config just to make sure nothing was dropped that needs to be there , when you got this dc0 ip of 192.168.1.33 was that set staticly?? On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 22:48 -0600, Eugen wrote: > That's what I get when I put ipv6_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf : > > $

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread Eugen
That's what I get when I put ipv6_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf : $ ifconfig -a dc0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8 ether 00:14:cf:52:b4:17 inet6 fe80::214:cfff:fe52:b417%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.1.33 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 192.168.1.25

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 20:53:28 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My first is to allow for dynamically resizeable swap > > file of some sort, and via kqueue, a notification > > especially with todays drives - it's waste of time to implement this. > nobody use swap FILES a

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 14:08:51 -0800 "Kurt Buff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can think of several others - yet I use gmail, because it's so > convenient. Some of this can be mitigated by using a POP3/IMAP client > instead of the web interface. > > 1) can't put a graphic in-line with text > > 2)

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 23:44:35 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what is most strange are FreeBSD admins from that list , many of them > really good, unable to just create e-mails for themselves on one of their > servers, but using gmail. just because some people use gmail fo

Re: Ports binary packages

2008-02-06 Thread Oren Almog
> > > Oren Almog wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > When are new binary packages available? Are they compiled only at > > RELEASEs? > > > > No, they are compiled and updated continuously. > > > > Kris > > > > Thanks. > > I understand that the RELEASE directory contains only packages that were > compiled w

Re: Ports binary packages

2008-02-06 Thread Oren Almog
Oren Almog wrote: > > Hi > > > > When are new binary packages available? Are they compiled only at > RELEASEs? > > No, they are compiled and updated continuously. > > Kris > Thanks. I understand that the RELEASE directory contains only packages that were compiled with a specific version was relea

Re: Evolution slow to start

2008-02-06 Thread James
E. J. Cerejo wrote: Does anyone know what might be causing evolution to crawl (more than a minute to open up)? It's been a while since I used it but when I did it wasn't this slow to open up. I don't see any error messages, so I can't post any of them. I have a feeling that it's looking for so

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread OutBackDingo
But i still dont see any ipv6 data in the ifconfig for dc0, we had an instance where ipv6 being turned off networking stopped functioning in your ifconfig dc0 should show inet6 data like lo0 does. make sure its commented out of rc.conf and reboot. also is this a generic kernel or did you customize

Evolution slow to start

2008-02-06 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Does anyone know what might be causing evolution to crawl (more than a minute to open up)? It's been a while since I used it but when I did it wasn't this slow to open up. I don't see any error messages, so I can't post any of them. I have a feeling that it's looking for something before it come

Re: is there a 2.3.x package for OO?

2008-02-06 Thread Gary Kline
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 15:37:18 Nikola Lečić wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:20:53 -0800 > > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > To cut down my email I unsub'd to the OOo mailing list, so I'll ask > > here if there is a new package of the latest or near-latest that I > > can set off at

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread Eugen
I tried everything you guys told me and it still doesn't work : - tried to set a static address as Derek indicated - commented out the ipv6 line in rc.conf, even if it was already set to "NO" - the answer to Kevin's questions follow: # ping -I dc0 192.168.1.1 ping: invalid multicast interface: `d

mail checker for evo/kmail//mutt->IMAP

2008-02-06 Thread Gary Kline
Can anybody point me to a mailbox checker that works from a "desktop" and watches (via network), the mail server? Until my re-org, xbiff was sufficient. But no mo'. thanks for any suggestions, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org

Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-06 Thread Jonathan Franks
On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Erik Osterholm wrote: . Then there's the issue of spam and spam blocking. Google does a great job of blocking spam. Really? I can't say that I've had the same experience. I'd say that 80 percent of what ends up in my inbox is unadulterated spam. I stil

Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-06 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:32:44PM -0500, Jonathan Franks wrote: >On Feb 6, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Erik Osterholm wrote: > >. > >Then there's the issue of spam and spam blocking. Google does a great > >job of blocking spam. > >Really? I can't say that I've had the same exper

Re: Desktop Performance Tuning?

2008-02-06 Thread RW
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:45:14 -0800 "Eli Scott" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently installed FreeBSD 7.0 RC-1 on my hobby system, >.. > performance seems to degrade whenever i'm compiling > things (like, performing a buildworld, installing from ports, etc) > which manifests itself as considerab

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Matthew D. Fuller
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:51:33AM -0800 I heard the voice of Jeremy Chadwick, and lo! it spake thus: > > So let's tell Navneet exactly what he's getting into, shall we? OK, but let's do that by telling him what he's getting into, not vague gestures at overblown half-truths. > - Ruby is not i

Desktop Performance Tuning?

2008-02-06 Thread Eli Scott
Hey Everyone, I wasn't sure if -questions or -tuning would be a better place for this question, so i thought i'd start general and work up the ladder of specificity if you all think it would be more appropriate. I recently installed FreeBSD 7.0 RC-1 on my hobby system, and so far i think it's pret

Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-06 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:25:16PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >not used anything google for several years now. No gmail, no Picassa, > >nothing I can avoid. No deep political reasons, just a personal choice. > > exactly as me. > > i really don't understand people that CAN have normal mail (e

Re: df & du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
clean things up and ensure that it didn't happen again. Using the "du" command to look for offending directories and files, I wiped out a bunch of old Apache and Qmail logs...and then found that I was still using 90% of the you forgot to restart apache and qmail. and they keep these logs open.

Re: Nice for IO

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
AFAIK - there is no such thing in FreeBSD On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Alex de Kruijff wrote: I'm looking for tool that limit the IO acces to a process similair as what nice / idprio does with the CPU but only ten for IO. Any pointers? -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not

Re: is there a 2.3.x package for OO?

2008-02-06 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 15:20:53 -0800 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > To cut down my email I unsub'd to the OOo mailing list, so I'll ask > here if there is a new package of the latest or near-latest that I > can set off at night and have it

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
so stay away from ANY services that large. not just gmail, not just mail services at all. Someone's over-paranoid in here... spy satellites, providers selling sensitive data, neighbors staring at your wife undressing while you're at work... who cares? no need to spy satellites today :) just b

is there a 2.3.x package for OO?

2008-02-06 Thread Gary Kline
To cut down my email I unsub'd to the OOo mailing list, so I'll ask here if there is a new package of the latest or near-latest that I can set off at night and have it installed by morning. Any exact URL's would be a great help. tia, people, gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Brian
Jeremy Gransden wrote: Hello List, I was prompted by a comment in another thread about gmail; and other than the absolutely annoying way it quotes, what is wrong with gmail? thanks, Jeremy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I was prompted by a comment in another thread about gmail; and other >> than the absolutely annoying way it quotes, what is wrong with gmail? >> > > think other way. > > imagine you have service with 5000 mail account. > > would it be worth for you of extra work of wri

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
2008/2/6, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> i would rather not narrow the problem to google or gmail, but to any THAT > >> BIG service provider. > >> > >> simply avoid huge ones as they are too powerful. > > > > > > Which is why I like to use Tuffmail.com. They are not free, but provi

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i would rather not narrow the problem to google or gmail, but to any THAT BIG service provider. simply avoid huge ones as they are too powerful. Which is why I like to use Tuffmail.com. They are not free, but provide excellent service and features for a mail provider. Plus, they run Free

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Kurt Buff
On Feb 6, 2008 1:42 PM, Gerard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:26:20 -0500 > "Jeremy Gransden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I was prompted by a comment in another thread about gmail; and other > > than the absolutely annoying way it quotes, what is wrong with gmail? > > Ther

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Chess Griffin
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I was prompted by a comment in another thread about gmail; and other than the absolutely annoying way it quotes, what is wrong with gmail? The privacy policy (or perhaps more accurately the policy indicating your lack of privacy): http://mail.google.com/mail/help/int

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread RW
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 17:09:50 + Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally much prefer scripts in rc.d because it's much easier to > migrate than crontabs, and if I never use a crontab I always know > where to look. > > It looks to me like you shouldn't be starting the demon as us

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I was prompted by a comment in another thread about gmail; and other than the absolutely annoying way it quotes, what is wrong with gmail? The privacy policy (or perhaps more accurately the policy indicating your lack of privacy): http://mail.google.com/mail/help/intl/en/privacy.html i w

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I was prompted by a comment in another thread about gmail; and other than the absolutely annoying way it quotes, what is wrong with gmail? think other way. imagine you have service with 5000 mail account. would it be worth for you of extra work of writing all user data, analyzing it, storin

Re: buildworld releng7 exterme performance loss

2008-02-06 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Frank Staals wrote: Updated my sources again today. This time even build with a GENERIC kernel but still the same result. Is there nobody who can help me with this ? In your place I would have a look at "vmstat -i" and "top -S". Post the results here, if you do not know what to make of them

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Gerard
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 16:26:20 -0500 "Jeremy Gransden" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was prompted by a comment in another thread about gmail; and other > than the absolutely annoying way it quotes, what is wrong with gmail? There are several glaring deficiencies with gmail. Just for starters, unle

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 6, 2008, at 1:26 PM, Jeremy Gransden wrote: I was prompted by a comment in another thread about gmail; and other than the absolutely annoying way it quotes, what is wrong with gmail? The privacy policy (or perhaps more accurately the policy indicating your lack of privacy): http:

OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-06 Thread Jeremy Gransden
Hello List, I was prompted by a comment in another thread about gmail; and other than the absolutely annoying way it quotes, what is wrong with gmail? thanks, Jeremy ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listin

Nice for IO

2008-02-06 Thread Alex de Kruijff
I'm looking for tool that limit the IO acces to a process similair as what nice / idprio does with the CPU but only ten for IO. Any pointers? -- Alex Please copy the original recipients, otherwise I may not read your reply. Howtos based on my personal use, including information about setting

Re: Compiz-fusion article

2008-02-06 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Manolis Kiagias wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: I found what the problem was under KDE, in your tutorial you tell us to run these commands as a regular user: compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp emerald --replace I found that both of these commands need a & sign at the end

Re: Compiz-fusion article

2008-02-06 Thread Manolis Kiagias
E. J. Cerejo wrote: I found what the problem was under KDE, in your tutorial you tell us to run these commands as a regular user: compiz --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp emerald --replace I found that both of these commands need a & sign at the end of each of these commands

Re: df & du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
These wildly different results have me confused. How in the world can there be a ~1.2GB difference between the disk space in use as reported by these two tools? Which is right? More importantly, how do I fix this? 1) there is 1.2GB files open but deleted 2) there are snapshots i don't know

Site suggestion: www.careerjet.com

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Re: buildworld releng7 exterme performance loss

2008-02-06 Thread doug
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:22:16PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: Frank Staals wrote: Every 2 weeks or so I rebuild my sources on my laptop ( Dell Latitude D630 ). Last wednesday I wanted to update my system again since it was allready a couple of weeks

Re: ports makefile stuff (bsd.lib.mk)

2008-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
I made a patch to bsd.lib.mk if anyone is interested. It adds a "BUILDTO_DIR" variable, which sets a directory for the final .a and .so files to be built to. Is there any chance of this being integrated into the FreeBSD make system? (created by "diff -C 5 /usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk bsd.lib.mk > bsd

Re: df & du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread alex
After nearly running out of space on my /var partition recently, I went in to clean things up and ensure that it didn't happen again. Using the "du" command to look for offending directories and files, I wiped out a bunch of old Apache and Qmail logs...and then found that I was still using 90% of

Re: df & du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > After nearly running out of space on my /var partition recently, I went > in to clean things up and ensure that it didn't happen again. Using the > "du" command to look for offending directories and files, I wiped out a > bunch of old Apache and Qmail logs...

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My first is to allow for dynamically resizeable swap file of some sort, and via kqueue, a notification especially with todays drives - it's waste of time to implement this. nobody use swap FILES at all if swapping is needed unless he/she have no choice. swapping partition always will be fast

Re: df & du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:28:43PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > After nearly running out of space on my /var partition recently, I went in > to clean things up and ensure that it didn't happen again. Using the "du" > command to look for offending directories and files, I wiped out a bunch of

df & du showing different usages for /var

2008-02-06 Thread alex
After nearly running out of space on my /var partition recently, I went in to clean things up and ensure that it didn't happen again. Using the "du" command to look for offending directories and files, I wiped out a bunch of old Apache and Qmail logs...and then found that I was still using 90%

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 06), [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > The third idea is for more of a move to Linux and, SUS , and POSIX > source compatability in regards to additional features supported by > these systems. I still in 6.0 run into some calls that are not > supported by FreeBSD that is a real hea

Re: buildworld releng7 exterme performance loss

2008-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 08:22:16PM +0100, Frank Staals wrote: > Frank Staals wrote: > >Every 2 weeks or so I rebuild my sources on my laptop ( Dell Latitude > >D630 ). Last wednesday I wanted to update my system again since it was > >allready a couple of weeks ago I rebuilded my sources. There w

Re: buildworld releng7 exterme performance loss

2008-02-06 Thread Frank Staals
Frank Staals wrote: Every 2 weeks or so I rebuild my sources on my laptop ( Dell Latitude D630 ). Last wednesday I wanted to update my system again since it was allready a couple of weeks ago I rebuilded my sources. There were no abnormalities during the build/install. But when I restarted my s

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread RW
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:55:12 +0100 Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've seen some complicated examples on this thread, and want to > suggest a simple one: > > 1. create a regular shell script in /etc/rc.d, n >.. > A more semantically pure example (and the one that's preferred if your > s

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread RW
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:52:26 +0100 "Ivan Voras" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 06/02/2008, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (for example: "/etc/rc.d/myscript") > > > 2. chmod a+x the script > > > 3. you're done. > > > > > > This will work for the recent versions of FreeBSD (you did

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Dominic Fandrey
navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system startup. I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : - 1. Copying the script to /etc/rc.d directory. 2. /sbin/chkconfig --add "scriptname" I want to achieve the same on FreeBSD chckconf

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:23:28AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear FreeBSD Developers, > > I have a few suggestions for how FreeBSD can be > improved in an upcoming release. Sounds like you have your work cut out for you. jerry > > My first is to allow for dynamically resizeabl

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Ivan Voras
On 06/02/2008, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (for example: "/etc/rc.d/myscript") > > 2. chmod a+x the script > > 3. you're done. > > > > This will work for the recent versions of FreeBSD (you didn't say for > > which version do you need it). > > you need to make that script react f

Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear FreeBSD Developers, I have a few suggestions for how FreeBSD can be improved in an upcoming release. My first is to allow for dynamically resizeable swap file of some sort, and via kqueue, a notification facility to notify a program when swap is about to run out, when a program has made a m

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, February 06, 2008 17:46:40 +0100 Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: No, don't add anything to rc.local. no because of? Because rc.local is the legacy, deprecated method of handling local scripts, per man (8) rc. "Typically, the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ mechanism is

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 05:46:40PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >No, don't add anything to rc.local. > > no because of? > Quote from man rc Typically, the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ mechanism is used instead of rc.local these days but if you want to u

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Wojciech Puchar wrote: No, don't add anything to rc.local. no because of? The manual page. The rc.local script contains com- mands which are pertinent only to a specific site. Typically, the /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ mechanism is used instead of rc.local these days but i

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I have never really understood the thing about setuids, gid and etc. :) I am not planning a restart so won't try it but I am pretty sure that logs are created by root unless the api is started manually. No big deal really but thanks for all the suggestions! It's very s

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Thank you. I realized this was the case before I wrote previous message. The thing is the real file is owned by user api. However, when the application is started following a reboot, its logs are created by user root, whereas when I start it by hand as user api, its logs

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
2008/2/6, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > >I have looked at my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and realized that the symlink > >I put there has the root as owner. It all works but I would rather use > >a non-root user for to run that script. > > > >$ ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/

Re: Some ZFS experience

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
What happened: 1. Base system running on gmirror volume consisting of 4 mirrors booted up normally in degraded mode with 3 of 4 drives online. 2. /data powered by raidz1 zfs was showing 3 drives, 2 online and 1 faulted. zfs list was showing that volume is unavailable due lack of spares. you tol

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
2008/2/6, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > No, don't add anything to rc.local. > > no because of? because usrland should be executed from /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ as far as I know. ZS ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: I have looked at my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and realized that the symlink I put there has the root as owner. It all works but I would rather use a non-root user for to run that script. $ ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel40 May 9 2007 sender.sh -> /u

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
No, don't add anything to rc.local. no because of? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello Alex, 2008/2/6, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > >Hello, > > > >I have looked at my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and realized that the symlink > >I put there has the root as owner. It all works but I would rather use > >a non-root user for to run that script. > > > >$

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I have looked at my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and realized that the symlink I put there has the root as owner. It all works but I would rather use a non-root user for to run that script. $ ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel40 May 9 2007 sender.

Some ZFS experience

2008-02-06 Thread Bogdan Culibrk
Hi list monkeys! I've been using ZFS on freebsd since August 2007. It was running on 4x 9GB SCSI drives in raidz1 configuration powered by some old bx133 motherboard with 2x CPUs on 350MHz with 512MB of RAM. Applications running on it were couple of jails spinning low traffic mail servers and my

Re: /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Zbigniew Szalbot" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have looked at my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and realized that the symlink > I put there has the root as owner. It all works but I would rather use > a non-root user for to run that script. > > $ ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ > lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, 2008/2/6, Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:39:40PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > 2008/2/6, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > (for example: "/etc/rc.d/myscript") > > > > 2. chmod a+x the script > > > > 3. you're done. > > > >

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 04:39:40PM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > 2008/2/6, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > (for example: "/etc/rc.d/myscript") > > > 2. chmod a+x the script > > > 3. you're done. > > > > > > This will work for the recent versions of FreeBSD (you didn't say

/usr/local/etc/rc.d/ scripts and non-root user

2008-02-06 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I have looked at my /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ and realized that the symlink I put there has the root as owner. It all works but I would rather use a non-root user for to run that script. $ ls -l /usr/local/etc/rc.d/ lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel40 May 9 2007 sender.sh -> /usr/home/api/sender/

ports makefile stuff (bsd.lib.mk)

2008-02-06 Thread Jim Stapleton
In my efforts to make some libraries, I looked up the documentation, and found bsd.lib.mk does in fact make my life a lot easier. However, I have a few questions. 1) Initially, this library will actually build several sublibraries. To keep my code neat, each library has it's own source directory.

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:29:14PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system > >startup. > > > >I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : - > > > >1. Copying the script to /etc/rc.d directory. > >2. /sbin/chkconfig --add "script

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:22:26PM +0100, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > navneet Upadhyay wrote: > > Hi, > > Hello, > > > I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system > > startup. > > > > I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : - > > > > 1. Copying the script to

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, 2008/2/6, Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > (for example: "/etc/rc.d/myscript") > > 2. chmod a+x the script > > 3. you're done. > > > > This will work for the recent versions of FreeBSD (you didn't say for > > which version do you need it). > > you need to make that script react for

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
(for example: "/etc/rc.d/myscript") 2. chmod a+x the script 3. you're done. This will work for the recent versions of FreeBSD (you didn't say for which version do you need it). you need to make that script react for "start" and "stop" commands at least

Re: Preserving file permissions with dump and restore

2008-02-06 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:44:49AM -0500, Francois-Xavier Charpentier de Beauville wrote: > Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>I have a box with three hard drives: > >>/dev/da0 - dedicated to the OS > >>/dev/ad4s1e - data drive - mounted as /store > >>/dev/ad5s1e - hold a backup of /dev/ad4

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Jason C. Wells wrote: navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I have two binary packages of an application of version 1.1 and 1.2. *The 1.1 is already installed, how can i upgrade it to 1.2* ? Do i have to uninstall 1.1 and then install 1.2 ? I would prefer a way by which i can upgrade an wxi

idlc loops building openoffice.org-2

2008-02-06 Thread Bob Willcox
Has anyone else seen this? I am trying to build editors/openoffice.org-2 on a 6.3-release system and keep getting a loop in idlc when compiling seemingly random idl files. Here's an example: rm -f ../../../../unxfbsdi.pro/ucrdoc/cssdrawing.db regmerge ../../../../unxfbsdi.pro/ucrdoc/cssdrawing.d

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Ivan Voras wrote: > An advanced feature ... I'd like to add some more info on the subject: the rc.d script mechanism is extremely powerful and you can do many things with it, if you need them. Scripts are passed arguments like "start" and "stop" which you might want to handle (though "stop" is ha

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Ivan Voras
navneet Upadhyay wrote: > Hi, > I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system > startup. > > I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : - > > 1. Copying the script to /etc/rc.d directory. > 2. /sbin/chkconfig --add "scriptname" > > > I want to achieve the same

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:33 AM 2/6/2008, navneet Upadhyay wrote: i dont want to go with the rename option, as if tomorrow i want to add more scripts to run at startup i will be in a mess. I will tell in detail so that it would be easy for you to understand my problem :- Intention is that the script file should

Re: Host interface resetting - Asus nx 1101 (stge)

2008-02-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 12:11 AM 2/6/2008, Rudi Kramer - MWEB wrote: Hello, I recently purchased a Asus NX 1101 nic for a intel pc I have at home. The motherboard is a intel gigabyte GA-8I945GMF and I'm running FreeBSD 6.3 RELEASE. The card is correctly using the stge driver but whenever I try and bring the interfa

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:40 AM 2/6/2008, Eugen wrote: Thanks for all your input. For now I am posting my rc.conf, but I will try your suggestions this evening when I come back from work. If anyone needs additional details, please ask and I'll repost my initial cry for help. Eugen ### Console options keymap="us.i

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread navneet Upadhyay
i dont want to go with the rename option, as if tomorrow i want to add more scripts to run at startup i will be in a mess. I will tell in detail so that it would be easy for you to understand my problem :- Intention is that the script file should be called at both startup and shutdown. In Linux

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system startup. I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : - 1. Copying the script to /etc/rc.d directory. 2. /sbin/chkconfig --add "scriptname" I want to achieve the same on FreeBSD chckconfig file is not present, documen

Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
not used anything google for several years now. No gmail, no Picassa, nothing I can avoid. No deep political reasons, just a personal choice. exactly as me. i really don't understand people that CAN have normal mail (especially admins) using gmail. it's just strange.

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:09 AM 2/6/2008, navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system startup. I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : - 1. Copying the script to /etc/rc.d directory. 2. /sbin/chkconfig --add "scriptname" I want to achieve the sam

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread Pietro Cerutti
navneet Upadhyay wrote: > Hi, Hello, > I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system > startup. > > I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : - > > 1. Copying the script to /etc/rc.d directory. > 2. /sbin/chkconfig --add "scriptname" > > > I want to achieve

Re: Upgrading the Installed package

2008-02-06 Thread Jason C. Wells
navneet Upadhyay wrote: Hi, I have two binary packages of an application of version 1.1 and 1.2. *The 1.1 is already installed, how can i upgrade it to 1.2* ? Do i have to uninstall 1.1 and then install 1.2 ? I would prefer a way by which i can upgrade an wxisting package without uninsta

script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-06 Thread navneet Upadhyay
Hi, I have a script file, i want that script to be executed on system startup. I am doing this on Linux in following two steps : - 1. Copying the script to /etc/rc.d directory. 2. /sbin/chkconfig --add "scriptname" I want to achieve the same on FreeBSD chckconfig file is not present, do

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