FW: Multi ISP Load Balancing...

2008-08-28 Thread Marcel Grandemange
I know this has probably been asked a thousand times but can someone give me an example with ipfw to do loadbalancing between two ISP's. We have two DSL links and realize that we wont get combined bandwidth. All I want is for BSD to choose the different ISP's based on a probability.

Re: Wine security question...

2008-08-28 Thread Subhro
man jail Thanks Subhro On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 8:16 AM, Christopher Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it possible to use wine in a secure way? I had a warning about it after > installing it from the ports. So I was wondering if it's possible to limit > it to a certain area. Like a sandb

Re: Why tcpdump don't work?

2008-08-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
Howdy-- On Aug 28, 2008, at 10:03 PM, EdwardKing wrote: I have a server and a client,they use TCP to communication.For example,when client send a message to server,the server return the same message to client,then client show it.When client or server shutdown,it will send FIN.So I want to u

Why tcpdump don't work?

2008-08-28 Thread EdwardKing
I have a server and a client,they use TCP to communication.For example,when client send a message to server,the server return the same message to client,then client show it.When client or server shutdown,it will send FIN.So I want to use tcpdump to watch it. The server and client in the same mac

RE: OT:KVM Switch

2008-08-28 Thread Jerry Dunham
On 27 Aug 2008 at 22:46, David Christensen wrote: > Mark Busby wrote: > > Looking at a Trendnet KVM TK-407K switch. It shows to work with linux. Has > > anyone had success using it with FreeBSD?  I hate to waste time and money, > > even with the option of resale on eslay.  Thanks for your time. I

Make World Inside Jail

2008-08-28 Thread Jason C. Wells
I currently use a separate machine to make world and to make and archive ports and packages. I would like to retire that machine and move that functionality into a jail. I am due to switch to 7.1 from 6.3 soon. I understand that I cannot run divergent kernels in the jails. I could still make

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread RW
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:43:40 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> you will get block arranged like this (where 1 is file 1's data,2 > >> is data from file 2 and 3 from file 3): > >> > >> 123123123123123123123123213213 > > > > This is just untrue. I don't much like Microsoft

Re: Where is wrong with tcpdump?

2008-08-28 Thread Paul A. Procacci
EdwardKing wrote: > I want to watch ip:172.0.10.2 port:19 TCP information,so I use following > command: > #tcpdump tcp port 19 host 172.0.10.2 > tcpdump: syntax error > > Why? How to do it? > > Thanks > > > ---

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:33:35 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > CP/M was single-user and was used on floppies up to 360kB AFAIK, And MP/M was multi-user, using the same filesystem. From memory, there was perhaps one byte that indicated which user owned a file :) > NTF

Re: Where is wrong with tcpdump?

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
> tcpdump tcp port 19 host 172.0.10.2 tcpdump tcp port 19 and host 172.0.10.2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Where is wrong with tcpdump?

2008-08-28 Thread EdwardKing
I want to watch ip:172.0.10.2 port:19 TCP information,so I use following command: #tcpdump tcp port 19 host 172.0.10.2 tcpdump: syntax error Why? How to do it? Thanks -- Confidentiality Notice: The info

Wine security question...

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Joyner
Is it possible to use wine in a secure way? I had a warning about it after installing it from the ports. So I was wondering if it's possible to limit it to a certain area. Like a sandbox? In Love in Jesus Christ, Or Lord and Savior. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only *bego

might be OT, sorry.

2008-08-28 Thread Gary Kline
I have searched the OO website and read the manual with OO [2.4.0], but have not been able to find this one. Can anyone tell me how to replace 4 underscores "" with 4 "Section" characters? In HTML; the section symbols are printed by typing "§" Yes, it is that simple. I can locate the

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Yi Wang
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Lars Stokholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just > one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume > because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, because it >

Re: how to run JDownloader on freebsd 7?

2008-08-28 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:46:45 -0400 "Tsu-Fan Cheng" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "java JDownloader.jar", try java -jar JDownloader.jar _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome "And that's one reason we like to believe in genius. It gives us an excuse for being lazy." Paul Grah

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > Is there a command in FreeBSD that ejects a USB disk like in Windows? > > > > I mount the USB disk with automount daemone (amd). > > > > > You have to umnount it using the umount command > usually umount /mountpount does the tick The disk is mounted by automout daemon (amd), so any acc

how to run JDownloader on freebsd 7?

2008-08-28 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I just download the "JDownloader" to use with megaupload, I have jdk1.5 installed, but when running JDownloader.jar "java JDownloader.jar", it show "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: JDownloader/jar" how should I do this right? thanks!! TFC __

Re: Network Card issues logging and aMule

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi everyone I am currently using Marvell Yukon's 88E8053 Network card and after a few searches on google, i noticed that this card has a few issues. Fortunately, I could use the network card without the need to do any manual labor. However, I noticed that the network card crashes after perhaps 72

Re: fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I personally would consider zfs on freeBSD as unstable/experimental on everything apart from AMD64's with loads of RAM to spare. I have tried tuning for large files UFS offers near-raw performance. it can't be much better. it can be less efficient on concurrent operations because MAXBSIZE is

Re: fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and UFS works perfect on my 6*500GB gstriped volume. RAID5 will be OK but for large files, for small files writes will be suboptimal (bu

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you will get block arranged like this (where 1 is file 1's data,2 is data from file 2 and 3 from file 3): 123123123123123123123123213213 This is just untrue. I don't much like Microsoft, but I don't think i AM sure it is like that under DOS up to 6.2 (where i tested it), and almost sure with

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Essentially, the UFS file system (and its close relatives) is intentionally fragmented in a controlled way as the files are written, exactly that was invented over 20 years ago and still it works perfect. at sort-of-random locations all over the disk, rather than starting at it's definitely

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
any kind of problems; I use mineone for writing stuff and reading with KDE's konqueror, as well without any issues; the installation was done in both cases follwing this guide: http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC.txt just a comment - with 7.x it would be much better to make /tmp as tmpfs - it

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, because it always happens when the disk activity indicator is lit and it stops immediately when it's

Re: 32-bit fbsd binaries on amd64 (we can already run 32bit linux/fc4 stuff, so this should work, right?)

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Now, I'm sure, as usual, I'm being naive, but: 1) We can run 32-bit linux on amd64, so do we have 32-bit freebsd libs already? yes. 2) If we don't have the 32-bit libs, is it possible to steal them base system's 32-bit libs are installed by default, for older version through compat6x,5x,4

Re: BSD Process, etc Limits....

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've been googleing regarding this subject - Limiting users in mem, proc and more- for a while now and think that the best and more documented or at least the one that came in all my search results is using login.conf... yes this is exactly the way to do this. but it doesn't work for multiple j

BSD Process, etc Limits....

2008-08-28 Thread Agus
Hi guys I've been googleing regarding this subject - Limiting users in mem, proc and more- for a while now and think that the best and more documented or at least the one that came in all my search results is using login.conf... Just wanted to ask if there is something in particular i should

Re: fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread craig001
> Hello All, > I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be > used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB > drives and was wondering if i should stick with ufs, or migrate to zfs. > i've read about the zfs many times on the freebsd wiki, and it se

Re: sed html tags

2008-08-28 Thread Joseph Olatt
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:04:22PM -0400, An wrote: > yes, it does work perfectly with the example I gave... the actual file > is some like > > ... 111 no > ... > > > your command only returns ]# sed 's/\( .*>.*<\/span>\)\(.*\)\(.*<\/span>\)/\2/' file > >

Network Card issues logging and aMule

2008-08-28 Thread disappearedng
Hi everyone I am currently using Marvell Yukon's 88E8053 Network card and after a few searches on google, i noticed that this card has a few issues. Fortunately, I could use the network card without the need to do any manual labor. However, I noticed that the network card crashes after perhaps 72

fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread Michael John Copeland
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and was wondering if i should stick with ufs, or migrate to zfs. i've read about the zfs many times on the freebsd wiki, and it seems l

Re: Proxying broadcasts? SOLVED

2008-08-28 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hey, > The simple answer is no: if you want subnet-local broadcast traffic to > be received, then your DB servers and your clients need to be on the > same subnet. Routers are designed and required to not propagate > broadcast traffic, although you could switch to doing bridging rather > than rou

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:43:58AM -0400, Brian McCann wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brian McCann wrote: > >> Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built > >> recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two rebo

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 05:44:32PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Brian McCann wrote: > >Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built > >recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a > >few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:03:49AM -0400, Brian McCann wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Does gjournal complain about your drive, for example that it doesn't > > support BIOFLUSH? > > Actually yes...I meant to post them in my last message, but

32-bit fbsd binaries on amd64 (we can already run 32bit linux/fc4 stuff, so this should work, right?)

2008-08-28 Thread Steve Franks
I've been reading the wine64 wiki. I've also seen some of myself & other's questions in this general direction (not wine specifically, but anything 64 vs 32) go by. Near as I can tell, the big hangup is having 32-bit libs (i.e for X) hanging around on your system. Now, I'm sure, as usual, I'm be

Re: sed html tags

2008-08-28 Thread An
yes, it does work perfectly with the example I gave... the actual file is some like ... 111 no ... your command only returns ]# sed 's/\(.*<\/span>\)\(.*\)\(.*<\/span>\)/\2/' file I wish to rip all .* and obtain ... ... i thin

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, August 28, 2008 a las 07:07:44PM +0200, Lars Stokholm escribió: > Hi, > > I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just > one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume > because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, beca

Re: _secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory

2008-08-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 28), VeeJay said: > Hi there > > I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 production. After installation, I am getting > this message when server boots > > Could anybody tell what does it mean and how to fix this error??? > > _secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not

_secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory

2008-08-28 Thread VeeJay
Hi there I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 production. After installation, I am getting this message when server boots Could anybody tell what does it mean and how to fix this error??? _secure_path: cannot stat> /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory Have googled... without any luck... Any help

Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Lars Stokholm
Hi, I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, because it always happens when the disk activity indicator is lit and it stops immediately when

Re: sed html tags

2008-08-28 Thread Joseph Olatt
> > >>> Hi, I have the string > > >>> > > >>> 111 > > >>> > > >>> And i wish to use sed to strip *only* the "" tag and its > > >>> contents... is this possible ? I'm trying this expression, but it > > >>> doesn't work... > > >>> > > >>> sed 's/\)]+<\/span>//g' file > > >>> > > >>> i

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Manolis Kiagias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > I don't have any "exotic" hardware myself - the article was written with > standard SATA disks as examples. > As I understand, the "consistent" message comes up when the journal is > actually used to return the fi

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/27/08, prad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to > asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with > windoze. > Essentially, the UFS file system (and its close relatives) is intentionally fragmented in a controlled

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Brian McCann wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Brian McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does gjournal complain about your drive, for example that it doesn't support BIOFLUSH? Actually yes...I meant to

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Brian McCann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Does gjournal complain about your drive, for example that it doesn't >> support BIOFLUSH? > > Actually yes...I meant to post them in my last mess

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does gjournal complain about your drive, for example that it doesn't > support BIOFLUSH? Actually yes...I meant to post them in my last message, but hit send too early...here's my output from boot (from dmesg.boot) GEOM_J

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
> > You may wish to have a look at this article: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/gjournal-desktop Great article...thanks. Bookmarked for future use too! > In particular, you should make sure you use tunefs to enable Journaling and > disable soft update on the journaled fi

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Brian McCann wrote: > Yes...I apologize...I did that when I built the file system with > "newfs -J". Here's the tunefs -p output for one of the file systems: > > # tunefs -p /dev/da2.journal > tunefs: ACLs: (-a) disabled > tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l)

Re: SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
H.fazaeli wrote: > > Hi all, > I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: > > 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? This support is native to 8-CURRENT, I think most of it is backported to 7.1. > 2. Is there any way to force UP operation apart form recomp

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they came back up, the file systems wouldn't mount since they were not clean.

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian McCann wrote: >> Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built >> recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a >> few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but wh

Re: gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Brian McCann wrote: > Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built > recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a > few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they > came back up, the file systems wouldn't mount since they were not >

Re: Help! Tape drive resets the server!

2008-08-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 14:53:44 Tyson Boellstorff wrote: > 3) Yes, it's possible that your drive is doing this, but more likely you > have a bent pin/short somewhere causing the scsi bus to reset, and your > kernel isn't handling this nicely. Check your pins. They bend easy, but a > mechanica

Problem in FreeBSD 7.x, in Xorg switching consoles.

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Joyner
When I switch from my Xorg running KDE, for some reason it pushes a string as keypresses to the KDE. I do not know if it's on return, or on exit. Here is my setup! On tty3 is my Xorg KDE desktop. On tty8 is a getty login. I use alt+ctrl+f8 to enter the login screen on tty8. I then switch bac

Re: SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 28 August 2008 07:59:00 H.fazaeli wrote: > Hi all, > I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: > > 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? I don't think so. FreeBSD 7.x just got "cpuset" backported from -CURRENT. -- Kirk Strauser ___

gjournal & fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they came back up, the file systems wouldn't mount since they were not clean. Now, I understand tha

Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-28 Thread Jonathan Belson
Matthew Seaman wrote: Jonathan Belson wrote: | | OK, thanks. After playing with MASQUERADE_AS(), MASQUERADE_DOMAIN() | plus a few FEATURES(), I've managed to change the 'From:' address for | e-mails sent via the command line. Unfortunately, e-mails sent via the | cron-ed periodic scripts sti

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread User Lenzi
Em Qui, 2008-08-28 às 13:56 +0700, Olivier Nicole escreveu: > Hello, > > Is there a command in FreeBSD that ejects a USB disk like in Windows? > > I mount the USB disk with automount daemone (amd). > You have to umnount it using the umount command usually umount /mountpount does the tick

SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread H.fazaeli
Hi all, I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? 2. Is there any way to force UP operation apart form recompiling kernel without SMP option? 3. Can someone shed some light on the logic of how schedulers (4.4.BSD/UL

Re: How to disable "cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors"

2008-08-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:51:57PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm trying to build a port and get stopped on a warning because "cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors" Even though it is probably there for a reason, I'd like to try

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread RW
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:13:40 +0200 > Eduardo Morras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > No, if you check a NTFS disk after some work, it's heavily > > fragmented. As you fill it and work with it, it becomes more and > > more fragmented. How did you measure it? AFAIK the percentage fragmentation f

hp dv2000

2008-08-28 Thread michael
apparently there are a lot of issues with this notebook. i did have to disable dma on atapi and such just to get freebsd installed. other than that, they have been great mobile workstations ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: How to disable "cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors"

2008-08-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm trying to build a port and get stopped on a warning because "cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors" Even though it is probably there for a reason, I'd like to try to continue with the build. But I cannot see what c++ switch prevents warnings from being t

Re: How to disable "cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors"

2008-08-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:51:57PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: > Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I'm trying to build a port and get stopped on a warning > > because > > "cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors" > > > > Even though it is probably there for a reason, I'd like > > to try to conti

UFS snapshot code changed?

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
were it changed between 6.3 and 7.0? in 6 there was a little time used ti delete the snapshot (when ending dump -L for example), it 7 it seems to be instant. is it OK (very nice indeed) or sohmething is wrong? i'm asking to be sure ___ freebsd-questi

Re: dump(8) ok, but restore(8) failes

2008-08-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 27, 2008 a las 01:00:18PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: > the DUMP itself seems to be ok because a restore like this works: > > $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat dumpsRebelion-20080825/usr.dmp.gz' | gzip -dc | > restore -xv -f - ./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008 > >

HP DV2000 series

2008-08-28 Thread michael
anyone here have/use the hp pavillion dv2000 series laptop? i have two. one of them is not showing post, i'm thinking its the lid switch. should i try to open it and remove the switch? it is just out of warranty. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

How to disable "cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors"

2008-08-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm trying to build a port and get stopped on a warning because "cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors" Even though it is probably there for a reason, I'd like to try to continue with the build. But I cannot see what c++ switch prevents warnings from being treated as errors. Please ad

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
because in unix they are not actually needed. users&groups system is just perfect. That's one man's opinion. for sure not one. all local unix users (not linux fans) i know share the same opinion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Wojciech Puchar wrote: (look at how long it took the BSDs to have native file-level ACLs). because in unix they are not actually needed. users&groups system is just perfect. That's one man's opinion. i don't know anyone here that actually use ACL under unix because he/she needs it. It de

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
MS was focused on building a filesytem that could store the outrageous ACLs they wanted, and that was non-trival so - as usually - they quickly implemented OS/2 filesystem (at best, assuming no stolen code), and added their bloat then. performance is never a priority in Microsoft. exactly opp

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
No, if you check a NTFS disk after some work, it's heavily fragmented. As you fill it and work with it, it becomes more and more fragmented. it's just like FAT, because nothing is done to prevent fragmentation. if NTFS needs to allocate block, it simply get first free. consider writing to 3 fi

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think they probably did, NTFS took a lot from UNIX filesystems, and what for example? it took 95% from OS/2 HPFS filesystem and another 5% is what microsoft f...ed up. at the time it was released they said that NTFS didn't

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's true about FAT. What I have never understood is why Microsoft didn't fix the problem when they designed NTFS. UFS and EXT2 both existed at that time, and neither needs periodic defragmentation. because Microsoft never fixes the real problems, but create it. if they would fix most of th

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Maybe it is because FAT filesystem wasn't well designed from the beginning and defrag was a workaround to solve performances problems. as everything else microsoft did it wasn't designed but stoled, possibly slightly changed. FAT is similar (mostly the same) as CP/M filesystem. CP/M was sing

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with windoze. because it doesn't need it. fsck is equivalent to scandisk, right? not exactly - fsck usually fix errors, unlike scandisk _

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Bill Moran
RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:08:47 -0400 > Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > That's true about FAT. What I have never understood is why Microsoft > > didn't fix the problem when they designed NTFS. UFS and EXT2 both > > existed at that time, and neither need

Re: curses.h, beep() returns ERR, flash() casuses segment fault.

2008-08-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:10:40PM -0700, Christopher Joyner wrote: > I do not get the OK from beep, and flash crashes the program. > This is my code: > > #include > > int main(int argc,char** argv) > { initscr();/* see also filter() and newterm() */ > if(beep()!=OK) //>

Re: messagebus user

2008-08-28 Thread jef moskot
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Dan Nelson wrote: You should be able to change its uid by deinstalling dbus, then editing /usr/ports/devel/dbus/pkg-install, changing the uid in that script to an unused ID, and reinstalling. That worked fine, thanks. Still don't know what this thing does (the things dep

Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jonathan Belson wrote: | Greg Larkin wrote: |> Jonathan Belson wrote: |> | Hiya |> | |> | I set up a remote box to e-mail 'periodic' output to me directly. It |> | has now |> | stopped working, and I suspect it's because the 'From:' addresses of

dragon player + no sound

2008-08-28 Thread Warren Liddell
When i open any movie file format, from avi, wmv, mpg .. they all play the picture perfectly, however i have no sound. xmms plays sound fine, the test of kmplayer using KDE4 plays picture & sound. Any reason why i have no sound ? Im using KDE4 on FreeBSD 7.0- STABLE AMD64.

Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-28 Thread Jonathan Belson
Greg Larkin wrote: Jonathan Belson wrote: | Hiya | | I set up a remote box to e-mail 'periodic' output to me directly. It | has now | stopped working, and I suspect it's because the 'From:' addresses of the | status | e-mails is of the form '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and the ISP has upped its | anti-sp

Re: Free BSD 7 - Not able to receive messages

2008-08-28 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:17:59 +0530 Blessan wrote: > I have installed free bsd 7 on on Intel Xeon Machine with 1 Gb ram. > But i cant use the mailing facility .. i can send mail by typing [mail > username] then follows the subject and message then EOF. but i when i check > mail of that particular

network card configure (was: Re: Free BSD 7 - Not able to receive messages)

2008-08-28 Thread Boris Samorodov
(creating a new thread with a new subject) On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:17:59 +0530 Blessan wrote: > Also i have to configure my network card each time i reboot.. How do you configure your network card? Did you write your configuration to /etc/rc.conf[.local]? You may consider reading rc.conf(5) for m

Re: Obscure df -h output

2008-08-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Marc Coyles wrote: Looks like they did some strange things trying to get it back. Those look like nullfs mounts with the same source and destination, which makes no sense. What does mount -v show you? Hi Kris... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mount -v /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, writes: sync 71548

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-28 Thread Peter Boosten
Paul Chvostek wrote: >> This is an attempt to isolate every MAC address that >> appears and then sort and count them to see who is having >> trouble or, in some cases, is causing trouble. > > Then you still may want to use awk for some of that... > > cat /var/log/dhcpd.log | \ >

Wireless and Broadcast packets problem

2008-08-28 Thread Adrian Thearle
Hi Guys I am having a problem with my wireless network. The Issue is that clients connected to the wireless LAN cannot _see_ other clients. My understanding of 802.11 was that clients could talk to other clients, except all traffic would go via the access point and that the AP would forward on th

RE: Obscure df -h output

2008-08-28 Thread Marc Coyles
> Looks like they did some strange things trying to get it back. Those > look like nullfs mounts with the same source and destination, which > makes no sense. What does mount -v show you? > Hi Kris... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mount -v /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, writes: sync 715484 async 362440,

Re: Obscure df -h output

2008-08-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Marc Coyles wrote: One of my servers appears to be having a slightly dippy moment... Running FREEBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 i386 (I don't have the bottle to attempt freebsd-update to 7.0-REL, altho I really should... Still a relative newb tho, and not confident on a box I can only access by remote) runni

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 06:56 28/08/2008, you wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:08:47 -0400 Mike Jeays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's true about FAT. What I have never understood is why Microsoft > didn't fix the problem when they designed NTFS. UFS and EXT2 both > existed at that time, and neither needs periodi

Obscure df -h output

2008-08-28 Thread Marc Coyles
One of my servers appears to be having a slightly dippy moment... Running FREEBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 i386 (I don't have the bottle to attempt freebsd-update to 7.0-REL, altho I really should... Still a relative newb tho, and not confident on a box I can only access by remote) running WHM 11.23.2 cPanel

Re: Security problems, I think I have a hacker attacker.

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Moeller
* Christopher Joyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [26.08.2008 08:35]: > I think someone is attempting to get into my system. > Here is my details: There are 2 login failuers on ttyv0, > And also 2 login failers on ttyv0 root. Man, you typed in a wrong password. :) -- Dipl.-Theol. Martin Moeller http://

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > Like in Windows after stopping a USB mass storage device, one has to > > unplg and replug the disk if he wants to access it again. > > What about just unplugging the disk when you are done with your skript > and do not need the disk any more? I may not be around when the script finishes... O

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:56:27 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Like in Windows after stopping a USB mass storage device, one has to > unplg and replug the disk if he wants to access it again. What about just unplugging the disk when you are done with your skript and do not n

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
> > I would like to have a command that makes the disk/USB port physically > > inaccessible, so at the end of the script a user cannot access the > > disk again. > > you should be able to use camcontrol's eject or stop command > on that device, usually /dev/da[0-9]. I tried that. That would event

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:56:27 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Is there a command in FreeBSD that ejects a USB disk like in Windows? > [...] > I would like to have a command that makes the disk/USB port physically > inaccessible, so at the end of the script a use

Re: PF rules evaluation

2008-08-28 Thread Michael Lednev
Jay Chandler пишет: Michael Lednev wrote: Hello. Is there some tool to test rules-file for PF with arbitrary packets without need for real traffic? Yes. It's called netcat (nc on most systems). Very funny. It will create "real traffic" which I want to avoid. ___

Re: PF rules evaluation

2008-08-28 Thread Jay Chandler
Michael Lednev wrote: Hello. Is there some tool to test rules-file for PF with arbitrary packets without need for real traffic? Yes. It's called netcat (nc on most systems). -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Second-system effect __