Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
To answer the first question, it's largely an issue of availablity and backups. Most services like Gmail handle backups for you. Although i talked about unix admins using g-mail. do you mean that they like gmail doing backups for them. so what they are doing with all these servers they

Re: Ports binary packages

2008-02-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Oren Almog wrote: 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

Re: Desktop Performance Tuning?

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
disabling SMP, but it didn't help. There have been threads on the stable list about jerky mouse performance, which may be part of this, but I have really followed it closely. I'm also wondering whether this might be due to some xorg or other port change from late 2007 that I only noticed when I

Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Then there's the issue of spam and spam blocking. Google does a great job of blocking spam. even better. it blocks ligitimate e-mail very efficiently. for them - legitimate - means coming from the wheel of friends which means all other free huge services. everything else may pass, or may

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Even if you HAD to use files, i can't imagine that writing a script that groks the output of the proper sysctl and creates a new swap file on demand would be that hard. for those usable to write simple script - there is /usr/ports/sysutils/swapd still - in XXI century disk sizes, even

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
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. what a sense to allocate memory (as md is memory of

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Or it's backed by a file (-t vnode, which is implicated by -f). I have used files for swap, just to see weather it works, others have done it because they had to. it works, just really slow. once i did this, and since then i always make big swap partitions, which are still few percent of

Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
2008/2/7, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Then there's the issue of spam and spam blocking. Google does a great job of blocking spam. even better. it blocks ligitimate e-mail very efficiently. for them - legitimate - means coming from the wheel of friends which means all other free

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just because some people use gmail for public mailing lists doesn't mean those same accounts and services are used for their private email. that's an explanation for part of them. but how about seeing an advert in city of small ISP offering it's services, and giving their contact info with

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Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and freebsd in general? If you don't like gmail, no one's pushing you to use it. what is exactly what i do. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-07 Thread Ivan Voras
RW wrote: 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

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-07 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2008-02-06 09:23, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear FreeBSD Developers, I have a few suggestions for how FreeBSD can be improved in an upcoming release. The third idea is for more of a move to Linux and, SUS , and POSIX source compatability in regards to additional features

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:28:57 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: still - in XXI century disk sizes, even some overcommiting swap space doesn't make a problem. if program needs 10 or more times swap than memory, the program should be changed to use less memory hungry

Question about freeBSD package.

2008-02-07 Thread Daniele Di Lorenzo
Dear FreeBSD, I am writting you to ask what are the license terms about bjorb package, downloaded from freeBSD site. Is it under BSD license?...is it possible the redistribution for commercial purpose? in different way, can you tell me who I can contact to get infomation about? Thanks in advance

Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-07 Thread uq
Hello, I have been looking for some summer chool type crash course in C and/or = programming tools and have found that there are several interesting activit= ies and gatherings for developers. However, I am not (yet) a developer. I n= eed something for beginners. I am not sure

RE: question on DSL signal

2008-02-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of David Banning Sent: Monday, February 04, 2008 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: question on DSL signal I run a small FreeBSD server with a standard DSL line. I have it ping the ISP every five

Re: Strange apache logs

2008-02-07 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 13:39:04 schrieb Dragan Jovelic: Couple of days ago I moved one web (PHP) application to new server running FreeBSD 6.2, with apache 2.2.8 installed. Everything is fine, except I have in httpd access_log lot of requests like this: ::1 - - [06/Feb/2008:13:43:58

Strange apache logs

2008-02-07 Thread Dragan Jovelic
Couple of days ago I moved one web (PHP) application to new server running FreeBSD 6.2, with apache 2.2.8 installed. Everything is fine, except I have in httpd access_log lot of requests like this: ::1 - - [06/Feb/2008:13:43:58 -0500] OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0 200 - ::1 - - [06/Feb/2008:13:43:59

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-07 Thread navneet Upadhyay
Hi, After putting my script to /etc/rc.d , it gets executed at startup and the parameter passed to the script is *faststart .* *I want the same script to be executed when system shuts down , how can i do that.* ** *i want to do something like this in script :- * ** *if [$1 = faststart];

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

2008-02-07 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:44:29 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: Can you [[ or anyone else onlist ]] tell me of successes or snafus in building 2.3.1 from src?? Yes, I do build openoffice.org (russian LANG) at my tinderbox and it fails rarely (may be once per ten times). WBR -- Boris Samorodov (bsam)

Re: Strange apache logs

2008-02-07 Thread Heiko Wundram (Beenic)
Am Donnerstag, 7. Februar 2008 15:45:39 schrieb Dragan Jovelic: Thanks for quick answer. I understand it is from localhost, but can't figure out what it is. Only things running there are apache and mysql server. In processes I see nothing strange, sockstat gives that all opened sockets belong

RE: VESA option in 6.3?

2008-02-07 Thread Johan Hendriks
Andreas Davour wrote: I just tried to compile my kernel with 'options VESA' and 'device vga', according to the instructions from 'man 4 vga'. When I did it with 6.2 it worked, but now 'make buildkernel' tells me VESA is an unrecognized option. How come? I built a kernel with that for

Re: time in jail one hour behind the jailhost

2008-02-07 Thread Jim Bow
Johan Hendriks wrote: Hello all I have a question regarding my time in a jail. I use ntp on the jailhost, but my jails are all one hour behind the host. Can someone tell me how to fix that! Try running 'tzsetup' in the jail and selecting the correct timezone there. JimBow

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-07 Thread Jeremy Gransden
On Feb 6, 2008 4:52 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can get billions storing everything and closely working with government, and even privates - selling the data raw or processed. of course not officially, but when talking billions of $ such things, or honesty, truth etc.

Re: VESA option in 6.3?

2008-02-07 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Johan Hendriks wrote: You are using amd64 now, there is no option VESA support for amd64. Out of curiosity: is this going to be in 7.0, or at least in development for a later release? Alphons -- VISTA - Viruses Intruders Spyware Trojans Adware

bge(4) for BCM5715S

2008-02-07 Thread fb-pr ups
Miladies, Gentlemen, Is there any chance to get a working driver for Broadcom Ethernet BCM5715S in a near future (7.0)? Or later? If not, is there any clue to patch the existing driver which claims to support this controller but actually doesn't. The linux driver does, but FreeBSD and linux

Re: cp -p

2008-02-07 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote: From HostClient: ls -al /share/ drwxr-sr-x 4 User www 512 Feb 7 19:23 www touch /share/www/foo ls -l /share/www/foo -rw-r- 1 user www 0 Feb 7 19:39 /share/www/foo (group id works) Right, this

Re: cp -p

2008-02-07 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Pietro Cerutti wrote: Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote: here's the situation: HostServer exports via NFS /www, which belongs to user:www (uid=1001, gid=80). The directory has the segid flag set: drwsr-xr-x 13 user www 512 Feb 7 00:58 www Umm, that

Re: cp -p

2008-02-07 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote: here's the situation: HostServer exports via NFS /www, which belongs to user:www (uid=1001, gid=80). The directory has the segid flag set: drwsr-xr-x 13 user www 512 Feb 7 00:58 www Umm, that directory you show has

Re: cp -p

2008-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote: here's the situation: HostServer exports via NFS /www, which belongs to user:www (uid=1001, gid=80). The directory has the segid flag set: drwsr-xr-x 13 user www 512 Feb 7 00:58 www Umm, that directory you show has the setuid bit set, not

Re: buildworld releng7 exterme performance loss

2008-02-07 Thread Frank Staals
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Jerry McAllister wrote: Sounds like the system is spending a lot of time waiting for some resource - I don't know which one[s]. Have you perused the system logs? Can you be running out of memory or swap space? Is the system built with debugging

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-07 Thread Mel
On Thursday 07 February 2008 12:31:30 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I wish there were free software programming crash courses for beginners=(beginners in programming) in every free software community event and gath=eting, providing and entry route for those who want to

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Zinevich Denis
I confirm it. Seems to be loader bug. I`ve tried to compile it without nfs support at all... but it didn`t help. I`ve been searching for solution for about a week and found nothing. Hey, I've been building FreeBSD jumpstart infrastructure and it mostly works. I'm using tftp to boot off the

Re: Desktop Performance Tuning?

2008-02-07 Thread Eli Scott
On Feb 7, 2008 8:19 AM, Jason Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:07:34AM +, RW wrote: 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

brand-new DVD drives less reliable than crappy old player - fix?

2008-02-07 Thread Steve Franks
I have a bunch of disks that will play fine in my laptop and TV, but not in my freebsd system with a new-ish NEC drive. Figured it was the drive, so I got a new pioneer, same issue - scratch somewhere that causes no hiccup on other players makes it tank. I can't even cp or rsync data off them,

Re: brand-new DVD drives less reliable than crappy old player - fix?

2008-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Steve Franks wrote: I have a bunch of disks that will play fine in my laptop and TV, but not in my freebsd system with a new-ish NEC drive. Figured it was the drive, so I got a new pioneer, same issue - scratch somewhere that causes no hiccup on other players makes

Re: Nice for IO

2008-02-07 Thread Mel
On Wednesday 06 February 2008 22:07:32 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. To some extent, limits(1) can do that. But not priority based, afaik. -- Mel

PHP - install question

2008-02-07 Thread Darryl Hoar
Greetings, am trying to install apache 1.3, mysql, php on my freshly installed 6.3 box. Once I installed apache and mysql, I tried to install php. couldn't find mod_php4 in ports, so googled and found that I needed /usr/ports/lang/php4. Installed that without problem. Created file

RE: PHP - install question

2008-02-07 Thread Darryl Hoar
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 14:09 -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: When I use my browser and hit the server, I get a blank page with the title PHP_TESTER. what step did I miss ? Did you add the following to your Apache configuration file: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType

Re: PHP - install question

2008-02-07 Thread tesolarisc
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 14:09 -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: When I use my browser and hit the server, I get a blank page with the title PHP_TESTER. what step did I miss ? Did you add the following to your Apache configuration file: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-07 Thread Eugen
My feeling is that's something in my router that BSD doesn't like and Linux doesn't care (since it works). Instead of posting my custom kernel config, I decided that I will give it another two radical tries: - first, I'll compile a generic kernel - second, if the first attempt is unsuccessful, I

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Rek Jed wrote: Hey, I've been building FreeBSD jumpstart infrastructure and it mostly works. I'm using tftp to boot off the network in to scripted sysinstall. I compiled the boot loader with tftp support but every time I boot it will first try nfs, then timeout after around two minutes

Re: tmpfs on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Aline de Freitas wrote: Em Thursday 07 February 2008 11:57:26 Wojciech Puchar escreveu: just to make sure - is it included in FreeBSD 7.0 ? Yes, it is can it be used in production. I'm running it in my workstation, and it looks pretty good... There are some issues but it works for most

Re: brand-new DVD drives less reliable than crappy old player - fix?

2008-02-07 Thread Steve Franks
Can I then mount the bin file as if it was the dvd, or how do I retrieve the actual filesystem at that point? Thanks, Steve On Feb 7, 2008 11:59 AM, Chuck Swiger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:54 AM, Steve Franks wrote: I have a bunch of disks that will play fine in my laptop

pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Rek Jed
Hey, I've been building FreeBSD jumpstart infrastructure and it mostly works. I'm using tftp to boot off the network in to scripted sysinstall. I compiled the boot loader with tftp support but every time I boot it will first try nfs, then timeout after around two minutes (it cannot find

cp -p

2008-02-07 Thread Pietro Cerutti
Hi list, here's the situation: HostServer exports via NFS /www, which belongs to user:www (uid=1001, gid=80). The directory has the segid flag set: drwsr-xr-x 13 user www 512 Feb 7 00:58 www HostClient mounts the exported directory on /share/www. HostClient doesn't know anything about gid 80.

Re: OT: www search engines

2008-02-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:41:07PM -0600, Erik Osterholm wrote: 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

Re: Desktop Performance Tuning?

2008-02-07 Thread Jason Morgan
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:07:34AM +, RW wrote: 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

Re: time in jail one hour behind the jailhost

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a question regarding my time in a jail. I use ntp on the jailhost, but my jails are all one hour behind the host. no. time is the same, but /etc/localtime is different Can someone tell me how to fix that! Regards, Johan Hendriks ___

BCM5704 chip initialization failed

2008-02-07 Thread Carole Macheret
Hello, The motherboard of my HP proliant DL360 G4p was changed and now I cannot see my network cards (BCM5704 netXtreme dual gigabit). I'm running FreeBSD 6.2 p5... Here is what I have in dmsg bge0: Broadcom BCM5704 B0, ASIC rev. 0x2100 mem 0xfdef-0xfdef irq 25 at device 2.0 on pci2

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-07 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:24 PM 2/6/2008, Eugen wrote: 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

Re: time in jail one hour behind the jailhost

2008-02-07 Thread Mike Bristow
Johan Hendriks wrote: Thanks that did the trick Can you tell me in which file the timezone is set. /etc/localtime is a copy of the right zone from /usr/local/share/zoneinfo. It's a binary file, so don't cat it! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: tmpfs on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-07 Thread Aline de Freitas
Em Thursday 07 February 2008 11:57:26 Wojciech Puchar escreveu: just to make sure - is it included in FreeBSD 7.0 ? Yes, it is can it be used in production. I'm running it in my workstation, and it looks pretty good... [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/home/aline]$ cat /etc/fstab | grep tmpfs tmpfs

RE: time in jail one hour behind the jailhost

2008-02-07 Thread Johan Hendriks
Hello all I have a question regarding my time in a jail. I use ntp on the jailhost, but my jails are all one hour behind the host. Can someone tell me how to fix that! Try running 'tzsetup' in the jail and selecting the correct timezone there. JimBow Thanks that did the trick Can

Re: Question about freeBSD package.

2008-02-07 Thread Marcin Koziuk
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 10:26 +0100, Daniele Di Lorenzo wrote: Dear FreeBSD, I am writting you to ask what are the license terms about bjorb package, downloaded from freeBSD site. Is it under BSD license?...is it possible the redistribution for commercial purpose? in different way, can you

Re: VESA option in 6.3?

2008-02-07 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Andreas Davour wrote: I just tried to compile my kernel with 'options VESA' and 'device vga', according to the instructions from 'man 4 vga'. When I did it with 6.2 it worked, but now 'make buildkernel' tells me VESA is an unrecognized option. How come? I built a kernel with that for

RE: PHP - install question

2008-02-07 Thread Darryl Hoar
Yes, but when I did an apachectl configtest, it barfed. Likewise apachectl start barfed. Remove the two lines you referred to, and it passes and starts. so, right now they are not in the httpd.conf file. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of

Re: brand-new DVD drives less reliable than crappy old player - fix?

2008-02-07 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Steve Franks wrote: I have a bunch of disks that will play fine in my laptop and TV, but not in my freebsd system with a new-ish NEC drive. Figured it was the drive, so I got a new pioneer, same issue - scratch somewhere that causes no hiccup on other players makes it tank. I can't even cp or

Monitor zfs disk space with rrdtool

2008-02-07 Thread Johan Andersson
Hello. Any one who has nice graphs to monitor zfs disk space with rrdtool ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-02-07 Thread Mel
Hi, first of all, /usr/share/mk/bsd.lib.mk is part of the FreeBSD system make files, not just the ports. So if you change something there, you will almost certainly break your buildworld and buildkernel. On Wednesday 06 February 2008 16:49:46 Jim Stapleton wrote: 1) Initially, this library

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Erik Cederstrand
Zinevich Denis wrote: It does not work. I`ve tried. But as I found in forums and mailing lists it randomly helps sometimes. Please don't top-post. I have a comment in src/sys/boot/i386/loader/conf.c v1.26 (RELENG_7) saying: #if defined(LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT) defined(LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT)

RE: PHP - install question

2008-02-07 Thread tesolarisc
On Thu, 2008-02-07 at 14:28 -0600, Darryl Hoar wrote: Yes, but when I did an apachectl configtest, it barfed. Likewise apachectl start barfed. Remove the two lines you referred to, and it passes and starts. so, right now they are not in the httpd.conf file. -Original

Re: mail checker for evo/kmail//mutt-IMAP

2008-02-07 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 06:18:22PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: 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'. I've just started using mail/mail-notification,

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

2008-02-07 Thread Nikola Lečić
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:44:29 -0800 Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re: Help with router problem

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My feeling is that's something in my router that BSD doesn't like and Linux doesn't care (since it works). Instead of posting my custom kernel config, I decided that I will give it another two radical tries: - first, I'll compile a generic kernel - second, if the first attempt is unsuccessful, I

Re: wireless dongle Howto.

2008-02-07 Thread Mel
On Thursday 07 February 2008 22:45:58 Dead Line wrote: Now im trying to connect to my router ,, but all the attempts fails.. here is my /etc/rc.conf # ifconfig_ural0=DHCP# ifconfig_ural0=ssid WatchingYou DHCP#ifconfig_ural0=ssid WatchingYou wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey 1:3230xx

Re: PHP - install question

2008-02-07 Thread Mel
On Thursday 07 February 2008 21:28:43 Darryl Hoar wrote: Yes, but when I did an apachectl configtest, it barfed. Unlike in life, it's good to specify the contents of the barf in unix diagnostics and support requests :) A typo is easier spotted by someone else or the cause might be that the

Re: USB HDD recommendations for FreeBSD 6.3/amd64 ?

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
problem - after attaching the drive, it took 10-11 minutes for the drive to become available as da0. In my specific situation this problem was not too disturbing. certainly there is something wrong. it takes 2-3 second at most if drive is already spinning.

Re: Please help in diagnosing these smartmon messages

2008-02-07 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:29:29PM +0100, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 04:14:39 Andrew Falanga wrote: I know it's probably near impossible to know exactly how much longer this drive has, but how serious are these errors? As I mentioned, the unreadable sectors on the hard drive

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 201, Issue 14

2008-02-07 Thread Oren Almog
I can actually sympathize with that. I am currently trying to understand some of the inner workings of the FreeBSD kernel but the lack of any design documents make it very challenging. And this is FreeBSD - whose documentation is held in high regard - most open source projects are very poor on

Re: Best practices for managing tweaked ports

2008-02-07 Thread Mel
Hi, On Tuesday 05 February 2008 13:05:12 Michaël Grünewald wrote: I am seeking for a word in advice in how to automatically tweak some applications, possibly making packages for them. The current solution is: I have a post install shell script that plugs my files into appropriate

time in jail one hour behind the jailhost

2008-02-07 Thread Johan Hendriks
Hello all I have a question regarding my time in a jail. I use ntp on the jailhost, but my jails are all one hour behind the host. Can someone tell me how to fix that! Regards, Johan Hendriks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Desktop Performance Tuning?

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
doing a lot of rebuilding under 7-stable. does it lag when doing disk I/O or just any case? I think it's disk I/O: even doing a cvsup makes the desktop start lagging on my Athlon XP UP system. disk I/O scheduling must have changed. and i'm not sure if in good direction...

Re: Please help in diagnosing these smartmon messages

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Falanga
On Feb 7, 2008 3:38 PM, Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:29:29PM +0100, Mel wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 04:14:39 Andrew Falanga wrote: I know it's probably near impossible to know exactly how much longer this drive has, but how serious are

Re: Strange apache logs

2008-02-07 Thread Dragan Jovelic
Thanks for quick answer. I understand it is from localhost, but can't figure out what it is. Only things running there are apache and mysql server. In processes I see nothing strange, sockstat gives that all opened sockets belong to www/httpd. I suspect this is something with apache, but can't

wireless dongle Howto.

2008-02-07 Thread Dead Line
Hello Gurus, Im On 6-3-R fresh install, and I have 3Com wireless router. the configurations in the router as follow: Its WEP encryption 64-bit WEP, Key 1 is used: key: 2330XX On my FBSD i have tried to use DLINK dongle DWL-G132 but for sorry, im disappointed that this old

tmpfs on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just to make sure - is it included in FreeBSD 7.0 ? can it be used in production. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: tmpfs on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Necati Demir wrote: There are some issues but it works for most people. What kind of issues? I get an infinite loop when executing certain linux binaries from a tmpfs, and there might still be a panic condition. Kris ___

Re: Problem with makemap and hash tables

2008-02-07 Thread Doug Hardie
On Feb 4, 2008, at 18:08, Doug Hardie wrote: I am just under 300K lines in that map at present. While I have always wondered where hash was going to break, I hadn't found the limit yet. However, the time to build the hash table is extremely large with that many entries. I ran some

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-07 Thread Alex de Kruijff
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:31:30AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. I wish there were free software programming crash courses for beginners= (beginners in programming) in every free software community event and gath= eting, providing and entry route for those who

Re: Nvidia graphics on AMD64

2008-02-07 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 02 February 2008, I wrote: I'm contemplating building a system around an Athlon 64 X2 4200+ CPU. I'm not into games and overclocking so a relatively low end motherboard with integrated graphics should suffice. I've been looking at a few specs, many of them use Nvidia chipsets and

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Zinevich Denis
I tried with LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT and LOADER_NFS_SUPPORT both enabled. Also I tried with nfs disabled and tftp enabled. All was made under 6.2 stable, i386 arch. Only once i`ve got it working without timeout, but I could not repeat this. I`ll be back to this question in about one or two month

Re: brand-new DVD drives less reliable than crappy old player - fix?

2008-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 7, 2008, at 11:03 AM, Steve Franks wrote: Can I then mount the bin file as if it was the dvd, or how do I retrieve the actual filesystem at that point? Yes, something like: mdconfig -a -t vnode -f _file.bin_ -u 1 mount -t cd9660 /dev/md1 /mnt/cdrom -- -Chuck

Re: cp -p

2008-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Pietro Cerutti wrote: From HostClient: ls -al /share/ drwxr-sr-x 4 User www 512 Feb 7 19:23 www touch /share/www/foo ls -l /share/www/foo -rw-r- 1 user www 0 Feb 7 19:39 /share/www/foo (group id works) Right, this is the BSD setgid

Re: Desktop Performance Tuning?

2008-02-07 Thread Bruce Cran
Wojciech Puchar wrote: disabling SMP, but it didn't help. There have been threads on the stable list about jerky mouse performance, which may be part of this, but I have really followed it closely. I'm also wondering whether this might be due to some xorg or other port change from late 2007

Re: Desktop Performance Tuning?

2008-02-07 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Bruce Cran wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: disabling SMP, but it didn't help. There have been threads on the stable list about jerky mouse performance, which may be part of this, but I have really followed it closely. I'm also wondering whether this might be due to some xorg or other port

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Erik Norgaard
Rek Jed wrote: Hey, I've been building FreeBSD jumpstart infrastructure and it mostly works. I'm using tftp to boot off the network in to scripted sysinstall. I compiled the boot loader with tftp support but every time I boot it will first try nfs, then timeout after around two minutes

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Rek Jed
Hi Erik, I wrote the howto refered to in other reply, it's a while ago I played with this, but I have no reason to think that much has changed on the 6.x branch, I have just tried 7.x and build of the loader this way fails. I tried building it on 7.0-PRERELEASE and it builds fine for me.

Re: Problem with makemap and hash tables

2008-02-07 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 02:27:50 Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I am having problem with /usr/sbin/makemap hash on huge databases under FreeBSD 5.5 and 6.3 while it is working on 4.11. By huge I mean around 380,000 lines in the /etc/mail/access file. After approximately 375,000 lines added

Re: Please help in diagnosing these smartmon messages

2008-02-07 Thread Mel
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 04:14:39 Andrew Falanga wrote: I know it's probably near impossible to know exactly how much longer this drive has, but how serious are these errors? As I mentioned, the unreadable sectors on the hard drive are repeated many times in the log ( 100 times). If

USB HDD recommendations for FreeBSD 6.3/amd64 ?

2008-02-07 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! I've been using two identical WD MyBook 500 GB HDDs as a 'backup media' for almost a year. With FreeBSD 6.2 things worked fairly well. There was only one problem - after attaching the drive, it took 10-11 minutes for the drive to become available as da0. In my specific situation this

Re: tmpfs on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-02-07 Thread Necati Demir
There are some issues but it works for most people. What kind of issues? -- Necati Demir http://demir.web.tr ndemir [~] demir.web.tr necati83 [~] gmail.com -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Zinevich Denis
It does not work. I`ve tried. But as I found in forums and mailing lists it randomly helps sometimes. This should Just Work, and I've had it work about half a year ago on 6.2. Which version are you compiling on? The tutorial I have handy[1] says to compile with: make

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-07 Thread Jason C. Wells
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: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:31:26AM -0500, Jeremy Gransden wrote: On Feb 6, 2008 4:52 PM, Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can get billions storing everything and closely working with government, and even privates - selling the data raw or processed. of course not officially,

ifconfig ndis0 scan halt on root and nothing on normal user

2008-02-07 Thread Kemian Dang
Hi, there I have a broadcom wireless card on laptop and want to use it. I installed the driver with ndisgen and after reboot, everything looks OK, ifconfig shows the ndis is working: ndis0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST metric 0 mtu 1500 ether 00:1a:73:8e:79:d8

Re: Compiz-fusion article

2008-02-07 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Tuesday 05 February 2008 23:49:48 Manolis Kiagias wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: On Tuesday 05 February 2008 01:39:07 Manolis Kiagias wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Is there a tutorial on how to configure compiz

Re: pxeboot, TFTP only, NFS MOUNT RPC error: 60, timeout

2008-02-07 Thread Rek Jed
I tried building it on 7.0-PRERELEASE and it builds fine for me. Haven't tested if it works yet, but will do in a moment. I can confirm that the same thing happens on 7. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

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