Re: securelevels

2008-08-17 Thread Brent Clark
Odhiambo Washington wrote: Hi Brent, Hey Odhiambo Long time no hear! Hope you are good. All good. Why are you asking about this when it is so clearly documented? I know its documented. Having used debian for x amount of years, think its time to add *BSD to my repertoire and too see wha

Re: Large RAID arrays, partitioning

2008-08-17 Thread Joze Volf
Thanks for your opinion. For now I will stick with the large RAID volume and no slices/partitions. As you said, it makes life less complicated. I think there is no problem about future upgrades supporting large volumes. I guess there will be support for even larger volumes. The more important c

ipv6 portsnap servers

2008-08-17 Thread R Dicaire
Hi folks, I searched google and this mailing list and could find no specific mention of ipv6 support for portsnap. I also checked for records for the three portsnap mirrors portsnap1, 2, and 4.freebsd.org, no . I have an ipv6 only install, and wondering what other means I can use to mainta

Re: FreeBSD 7-STABLE +Gnome +Compiz-Fusion?

2008-08-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Novembre wrote: Manolis Kiagias gmail.com> writes: Well, the article is right to the point that you will not install nvidia drivers on an ATI card ;) However as I understand 3D support in ATI is a hit and miss even in Linux (and ATI's proprietary driver is awful). The xorg.conf settings in

RE: remote backup solution over WAN

2008-08-17 Thread Tamouh Hakmi
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of S t > i n g r a y > Sent: August 17, 2008 11:22 PM > To: FreeBSD; FreeBSD > Subject: remote backup solution over WAN > > I am building one backup file server on WAN on FreeBSD, which > will backup

Re: remote backup solution over WAN

2008-08-17 Thread Jason W. Morgan
On 2008.08.17 20:22:00, S t i n g r a y wrote: > I am building one backup file server on WAN on FreeBSD, which will > backup remote servers data over slow links, (256-512kbps), simply > because i have never seen an operating system as stable/robust as > FreeBSD ever :-) > Now i want to know a tech

remote backup solution over WAN

2008-08-17 Thread S t i n g r a y
I am building one backup file server on WAN on FreeBSD, which will backup remote servers data over slow links, (256-512kbps), simply because i have never seen an operating system as stable/robust as FreeBSD ever :-) Now i want to know a technology that can sync only the changed data in a day rat

Re: Shell scripts: variable assignment within read loops

2008-08-17 Thread David Wolfskill
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 06:29:03AM +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > ... > You are right that feeding data to a looping construct through a pipe > may run in a subshell. The ``Single UNIX Specification'' says > Ah; thanks for the confirmation. >... > What I usually do in similar shell scri

Re: Shell scripts: variable assignment within read loops

2008-08-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 18:33:28 -0700, David Wolfskill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am writing a (Bourne) shell script that is intended (among other > things) to obtain information from a command, such as: > > netstat -nibd -f inet > > by reading and parsing the output. > > However, the "obvio

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 20:17 -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > [snip] > > > > the err message is gone, but KDE creates an /rmpty kdm.pid and > > does nothing. > > This is not good. The file should contain a number. > > [snip] > > It would also be helpful to know how you are

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 17:41:42 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 02:02 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > Yes, since I need to use FreeBSD 7 after an accident destroying all > > my data where fsck cannot help anymore, and FreeBSD 7 and it's > > software does not behave th

Re: FreeBSD 7-STABLE +Gnome +Compiz-Fusion?

2008-08-17 Thread Novembre
Manolis Kiagias gmail.com> writes: > Well, the article is right to the point that you will not install nvidia > drivers on an ATI card ;) > However as I understand 3D support in ATI is a hit and miss even in > Linux (and ATI's proprietary driver is awful). > The xorg.conf settings in the articl

Shell scripts: variable assignment within read loops

2008-08-17 Thread David Wolfskill
I am writing a (Bourne) shell script that is intended (among other things) to obtain information from a command, such as: netstat -nibd -f inet by reading and parsing the output. However, the "obvious" (to me) approach of piping the output of the command to the standard input of a "while

Re: how do I get Speech working with Firefox?

2008-08-17 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 14:20:50 -0700 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 20:17 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote: > > On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:46:04 -0700 > > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Anybody know what I'm not doing right and that the java app > > > fa

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 02:02 +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:30:07 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:14:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > > Maybe removing this PID file and retrying to start kdm > > > should solve the problem? It is possibl

Re: USB Drive Reliability

2008-08-17 Thread Jason C. Wells
Wojciech Puchar wrote: I am running FreeBSD 6.3. I have found that attaching and detaching USB drives to my box is unreliable. Is this the experience of other users? something more precise please? I realize that this is primarily a tech support forum. I wasn't asking for a solution to th

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: [snip] > > the err message is gone, but KDE creates an /rmpty kdm.pid and > does nothing. This is not good. The file should contain a number. [snip] It would also be helpful to know how you are trying to run KDE. There are two ways, the first being to have a line like: tty

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:30:07 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:14:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > > Maybe removing this PID file and retrying to start kdm > > should solve the problem? It is possible that kdm refuses > > to start while this file is present (a

{Disarmed} Re: best website for used thinkpads?

2008-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona
At 05:06 PM 8/16/2008, Gary Kline wrote: It's time to think about replacing my old 600E that died last March with a faster (Mhz >= 1.8 || Mz <= 2.2 ), and drop in a large drive and max out the RAM. I'm already begun googling around, but figured that the ThinkPad

{Disarmed} Re: {Spam?} {Disarmed} Re: Sendmail email delays

2008-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:49 PM 8/15/2008, Tom Stuart wrote: I have tried doing the forwarding via /etc/mail/aliases and it worked identically as it was with the /root/.forward. The mail does go through but gets delayed 5+ minutes, however when I send mail interactively using mailx or mail commands the receiving m

Re: Linux Wolfenstein Enemy Territory - no sound

2008-08-17 Thread Jakub Lach
Many thanks, works splendid :) Ironically, I'm leaving at dawn for two weeks AFK. Hugo Silva wrote: > > Jakub Lach wrote: >> Hello. >> >> I recently installed from ports (games/linux-enemyterritory). >> At first it complained about missing X11 lib, and I concluded >> that installing linux-xo

Re: RES: RES: Very Slow Samba

2008-08-17 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:37 AM 8/15/2008, Mauro Ribeiro - Class Consultoria e Assessoria wrote: Hi Derek, I didn't have any Intel boards here for spare, but i Found a HP PCI-Express 1x Giga Ethernet here. It's a broadcom chipset, I did replace the card but still with the same problem. I also did a very deep resea

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 12:14:26AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:04:34 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but > > # kdm > > > > fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. > > > > I check

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 06:12:27PM -0400, Michael Powell wrote: > Gary Kline wrote: > > > AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but > > # kdm > > > > fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. > > Try deleting that file and reboot if you are starting kdm in t

Re: FreeBSD 7-STABLE +Gnome +Compiz-Fusion?

2008-08-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Stacey Roberts wrote: Hi Manolis! Good to hear from you - thanks for responding.., On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Stacey Roberts wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get Compiz-Fusion + Gnome to work on my newly (completed installation + initial upgrades last night) installed I

Re: FreeBSD 7-STABLE +Gnome +Compiz-Fusion?

2008-08-17 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi Manolis! Good to hear from you - thanks for responding.., On Mon, 18 Aug 2008, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Stacey Roberts wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to get Compiz-Fusion + Gnome to work on my newly (completed > > installation + initial upgrades last night) installed IBM T43p notebook, >

Re: Max. number of opened files, efficiency

2008-08-17 Thread Tait
> How many files can I open under FreeBSD, at the same time? > ... > I tried to open 1000 temporary files and I could do so within one second. > > Another interesting (offtopic) question is that I could not open 10 000 > files under Windows XP. Error was "too many open file". How to overcome > this

Re: FreeBSD 7-STABLE +Gnome +Compiz-Fusion?

2008-08-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Stacey Roberts wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get Compiz-Fusion + Gnome to work on my newly (completed installation + initial upgrades last night) installed IBM T43p notebook, but I'm not sure that I'm doing this right.., Basically, I've: - 1] Installed OS 2] Upgraded OS to latest Stable as of (ear

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:04:34 -0700, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but > # kdm > > fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. > > I check that file and, yup, it's there. Maybe removing this PID file and retryi

Re: kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Michael Powell
Gary Kline wrote: > AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but > # kdm > > fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. Try deleting that file and reboot if you are starting kdm in ttys. If that by itself doesn't work there are a number of other files to clean

Re: Linux Wolfenstein Enemy Territory - no sound

2008-08-17 Thread Hugo Silva
Jakub Lach wrote: Hello. I recently installed from ports (games/linux-enemyterritory). At first it complained about missing X11 lib, and I concluded that installing linux-xorg-libs should sort it out. I wass correct (perhaps it should be added as dependency?). Running et it gives: --

Re: USB Drive Reliability

2008-08-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am running FreeBSD 6.3. I have found that attaching and detaching USB drives to my box is unreliable. Is this the experience of other users? something more precise please? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailma

Re: Posible SATA driver bug

2008-08-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have a freebsd 7 on a MSI k9n6g motherboard based on Nvidia MCP61. The problem is if i connect a second hard drive to the sata controller online, i got 89% of my CPU used by interrupt (systat -pigs shows you did atacontrol detach and atacontrol attach on that channel. anyway - it may be BIOS

kde troubles....

2008-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
AFter a power glitch last night I was able to relogin as room, but # kdm fails with the error: "can't create /var/run/kdm.pid. I check that file and, yup, it's there. kdm still fails. Gmnoe only gives me a small emergence xterm---probable due to my ~./.xsession setup. Any ideas why kdm

FreeBSD 7-STABLE +Gnome +Compiz-Fusion?

2008-08-17 Thread Stacey Roberts
Hi, I'm trying to get Compiz-Fusion + Gnome to work on my newly (completed installation + initial upgrades last night) installed IBM T43p notebook, but I'm not sure that I'm doing this right.., Basically, I've: - 1] Installed OS 2] Upgraded OS to latest Stable as of (early AM) Aug 17th 2008 3]

Re: transcode doesn't build....

2008-08-17 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, 2008-08-17 at 14:26 -0700, Jakub Lach wrote: > Shooting in the dark, try installing lzo or lzo2. > I rebuilt/upgraded after the fixes and it built!! > > Gary Kline-5 wrote: > > > > > > Hi Y'all:-) > > > > About the only thing that fails to portupgrade is > > multimedia/t

Re: transcode doesn't build....

2008-08-17 Thread Jakub Lach
Shooting in the dark, try installing lzo or lzo2. Gary Kline-5 wrote: > > > Hi Y'all:-) > > About the only thing that fails to portupgrade is > multimedia/transcode [v 1.0.6]. I've poked around, but only > superficially. Is there a bug report on this? Should I hav

Posible SATA driver bug

2008-08-17 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
Hi: I have a freebsd 7 on a MSI k9n6g motherboard based on Nvidia MCP61. The problem is if i connect a second hard drive to the sata controller online, i got 89% of my CPU used by interrupt (systat -pigs shows irq20: ata). The drive works but ate all my CPU. If i start it with the drive plugged wo

Welcome To TringMe

2008-08-17 Thread TringMe
Dear mohammed, Your TringMe account is created. You can login and start using TringMe right away by clicking on the following link (or copy/paste in your browser) : http://tringme.com/login.php To login to your TringMe, you have to use the following account details : Email: freebsd-questions

Re: USB Drive Reliability

2008-08-17 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Jason C. Wells wrote: I am running FreeBSD 6.3. I have found that attaching and detaching USB drives to my box is unreliable. Is this the experience of other users? Regards, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

USB Drive Reliability

2008-08-17 Thread Jason C. Wells
I am running FreeBSD 6.3. I have found that attaching and detaching USB drives to my box is unreliable. Is this the experience of other users? Regards, Jason ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Policy Kit - Not running

2008-08-17 Thread Eduardo Cerejo
I'm running FBSD7 stable and I can't find out why policy kit won't run even though I have it enabled in rc.conf: dbus_enable="YES" hald_enable="YES" polkitd_enable="YES" I can see dbus and hald but not polkitd nor do I see any error messages. Strange! __

Re: securelevels

2008-08-17 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Sun, Aug 17, 2008 at 7:03 PM, Brent Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I would like to know, in production envs, or anything for that matter, may I > ask how many of you raise the securelevel. > > If so, to what do you raise it to. Hi Brent, Long time no hear! Hope you are good. Why ar

securelevels

2008-08-17 Thread Brent Clark
Hi I would like to know, in production envs, or anything for that matter, may I ask how many of you raise the securelevel. If so, to what do you raise it to. Kind Regards Brent Clark ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Linux Wolfenstein Enemy Territory - no sound

2008-08-17 Thread Jakub Lach
Hello. I recently installed from ports (games/linux-enemyterritory). At first it complained about missing X11 lib, and I concluded that installing linux-xorg-libs should sort it out. I wass correct (perhaps it should be added as dependency?). Running et it gives: --- sound initializati

Re: Maildrop + sendmail

2008-08-17 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 17:22 -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > Maybe it's not a FBSD problem, but I think someone here have the > answer. > I'm trying to use maildrop as MDA with sendmail, but I'm facing > some troubles. > That is, since some of my local users don't

Re: Sendmail email delays

2008-08-17 Thread Tom Stuart
I made the changes to rc.conf as suggested. Also below are the new diffs. firewall-1# diff freebsd.mc firewall-1.xxx.com.mc 77c77 < dnl define(`SMART_HOST', `your.isp.mail.server') --- > define(`SMART_HOST', `smtp.xxx.com') firewall-1# diff freebsd.submit.mc firewall-1.xxx.com.submit.mc I have re

Re: Sendmail email delays

2008-08-17 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 16:27:50 -0600, "Tom Stuart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here are my diffs for the files as requested. I'm thinking the actual > issue may lay in my submit.mc configuration. Right now I have just the > base file as I've tried editing it to no success so I changed it back > to n