Re: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org, freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org

2010-09-28 Thread Polytropon
On 28 Sep 2010 07:07:46 +0200, vermaden verma...@interia.pl wrote: Hi all, how about 'porting' the Open{Solaris,Indiana} feature called _Time Slider_ in Nautilus to the FreeBSD's Nautilus? I think you should address this request to the Gnome project, as Nautilus is a part of Gnome, not of

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread perryh
Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Monday 27 September 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've recently started on a new system, and am planning to install 8.1-RELEASE, including the corresponding ports tree; then install what ports I can from packages and also fetch the

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Sep 28, 2010, at 2:02 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Monday 27 September 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've recently started on a new system, and am planning to install 8.1-RELEASE, including the corresponding ports tree; then

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 02:24:26 -0500, Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz wrote: As I understand it: The OS itself is stable, but the ports are constantly in flux and may be issues. Not exactly. It depends on which update road you follow. Say, you use freebsd-update (the binary update), or use

FreeBSD 8.x and RAID Controllers from Areca and HP

2010-09-28 Thread Maechler Philippe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I hope someone can help me installing FreeBSD 8.x with a RAID Controller from HP or Areca. We have a HP Proliant DL320 G6 Server with a built in HP Smart Array Controller. Since we haven't any luck in using the raid controllers from hp we

Problem with SASL authentication against Kerberos5 (Windows Active Directory)

2010-09-28 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello My system: FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #2: Tue Aug 31 17:07:54 CEST 2010:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Relevant part of the installed software: # pkg_info|grep cyrus cyrus-imapd-2.3.16_2 The cyrus mail server, supporting POP3 and IMAP4 protocols cyrus-sasl-2.1.23

MEncoder - nice allways 20, renice doesn't work

2010-09-28 Thread Mark Stapper
Hi all, I've been playing around with incoding/recoding with mencoder. On one of my boxes mencoder keeps having niceness 20. I don't want mencoder to play nice so I try to renice the process, but it resets to 20 within seconds! Here's the info: [st...@yoshi ~]$ mencoder -show-profile x264ac3

Re: FreeBSD 8.x and RAID Controllers from Areca and HP

2010-09-28 Thread Ivan Voras
On 09/28/10 10:02, Maechler Philippe wrote: Hello all, I hope someone can help me installing FreeBSD 8.x with a RAID Controller from HP or Areca. and then the machine freezes. This happens on FreeBSD 7.3 - 8.1 (AMD64 and i386). On FreeBSD 7.2 i386 there is no problem with the areca

ld(1) cannot find entry symbol _start;

2010-09-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm trying to learn the very basics of the compile - assemble - link process on FreeBSD. Please don't shoot me. I've this c code: % cat tmp.c int main() { int a; int b; int c; a = 2; b = 3; c=a*b; } which I compile into assembly language: % gcc

Re: ld(1) cannot find entry symbol _start;

2010-09-28 Thread Paul B Mahol
On 9/28/10, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm trying to learn the very basics of the compile - assemble - link process on FreeBSD. Please don't shoot me. I've this c code: % cat tmp.c int main() { int a; int b; int c; a = 2; b =

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Michel Talon
Polytropon said: If you decide to upgrade your ports tree because you need newer versions or specific features, it *may* be possible that a certain point in time of -RELEASE is not sufficient, and this might force you to change your road to follow -STABLE. This can either be the case by

Re: ld(1) cannot find entry symbol _start;

2010-09-28 Thread Michel Talon
Paul B Mahol said: On 9/28/10, Anton Shterenlikht me...@bristol.ac.uk wrote: I'm trying to learn the very basics of the compile - assemble - link process on FreeBSD. Please don't shoot me. Then I try to link the object file into an executable: % ld tmp.o You are missing

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Chris Whitehouse
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I'm advocating starting from a stable and self-consistent baseline, consisting of a release _and_ its corresponding port/package collection, and then considering whether any updates are needed. You might be interested to follow Manolis' custom DVD which is based

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010, Ryan Coleman wrote: As I understand it: The OS itself is stable, but the ports are constantly in flux and may be issues. During a FreeBSD release, the ports tree is frozen and port updates are delayed. So a FreeBSD release really does come with with a somewhat stale

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 330, Issue 2, Message: 22 On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 00:02:29 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: On Monday 27 September 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've recently started on a new system, and am planning to

preemption enable/disable routines

2010-09-28 Thread akash kumar
Hi, Can some one tell me the routines in freebsd to enable and disable preemption. In linux we have preempt_enable and preempt_disable which does the functionality. In case freebsd, doesnot have such routines can i used mtx_lock_spin() to do the same? Thanks, Akash.

what is from with this picture?

2010-09-28 Thread Gary Kline
I have been trying to install ubuntu as a desktop while maintaining freebsd as my server. A few days ago mail was working. But, checking my /var/logs/ on my ubuntu I see: Sep 28 09:10:46 newtao postfix/smtp[8064]: 73A14E81F39: to=free...@edvax.de, relay=mx01.schlund.de[212.227.15.169]:25,

Re: what is from with this picture?

2010-09-28 Thread Ryan Coleman
I just did a check for thought.org and even it doesn't exist. Is your DNS host down? Did your domain expire? (Just checked the WHOIS and no, it's up through 2015) This may or may not be anything but neither your primary nor secondary Name Servers respond to pings: Ryan-Colemans-MacBook-Pro:~

Re: what is from [sic (wrong)] with this picture? -- Answer: It's Ubuntu, not FreeBSD

2010-09-28 Thread Ryan Coleman
And, lastly, I will add this quote: I have been trying to install ubuntu as a desktop while maintaining freebsd as my server. A few days ago mail was working. But, checking my /var/logs/ on my ubuntu I see: You are asking a FreeBSD list about Ubuntu? ... You'll find some help, not a lot

Re: preemption enable/disable routines

2010-09-28 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:10 AM, akash kumar akashb...@yahoo.co.in wrote: Hi, Can some one tell me the routines in freebsd to enable and disable preemption. In linux we have preempt_enable and preempt_disable which does the functionality. In case freebsd, doesnot have such routines can i

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 28 September 2010, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Mike Clarke jmc-freeb...@milibyte.co.uk wrote: [snip] The problem is if/when you need to update a port as a result of a security advisory. If your ports tree is very much out of date then it's likely that updating that one port

Booting up FreeBSD 8.0

2010-09-28 Thread William Lang
I have just installed FreeBSD 8.0 and after I login it stops at $ like its waiting for me to put some type of information in or something. So what do I put after the dollar sign??? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Booting up FreeBSD 8.0

2010-09-28 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Tuesday 28 September 2010 1:52:56 pm William Lang wrote: I have just installed FreeBSD 8.0 and after I login it stops at $ like its waiting for me to put some type of information in or something. So what do I put after the dollar sign??? ___

Re: Booting up FreeBSD 8.0

2010-09-28 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 28, 2010, at 10:52 AM, William Lang wrote: I have just installed FreeBSD 8.0 and after I login it stops at $ like its waiting for me to put some type of information in or something. So what do I put after the dollar sign??? You're at a Unix shell prompt. I suspect the resources here

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 28 September 2010, Ian Smith wrote: I agree with Mike about the worms :)  I have an 8.0-RELEASE system with many ports installed and quite a few configured to taste with a recently upgraded 8-STABLE world, working through a huge portversion update list, started by fetching over

smartctl/ada/FreeBSD 8.1 more than 10 devices?

2010-09-28 Thread DJ
I'm seeing something odd and don't know if its a function of the new ada/ahci driver support in smartmontools 5.38 and later. I'm running 5.39.1 on an array using SiL3124 controllers with port multipliers. # smartctl -i /dev/ada9 smartctl 5.39.1 2010-01-28 r3054 [FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64]

Re: smartctl/ada/FreeBSD 8.1 more than 10 devices?

2010-09-28 Thread Steve Polyack
On 9/28/2010 7:25 PM, DJ wrote: I'm seeing something odd and don't know if its a function of the new ada/ahci driver support in smartmontools 5.38 and later. I'm running 5.39.1 on an array using SiL3124 controllers with port multipliers. ... # smartctl -i /dev/ada11 smartctl 5.39.1

Re: smartctl/ada/FreeBSD 8.1 more than 10 devices?

2010-09-28 Thread DJ
since all the drives, cables and controllers are identical, I'm trying to figure out if there is something *else* I should be looking into for why smart would have an issue, but the rest of the OS has no issues with these drives.  (zfs is storing data, reports them all as online, etc).

Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-28 Thread vyaaghrah-nix
Hi Everybody How is Cache memory in the following output calculated, on Free BSD system. last pid: 39307; load averages: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 up 60+18:16:49 10:00:17 25

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 9:40 PM, vyaaghrah-...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi Everybody How is Cache memory in the following output calculated, on Free BSD system. man 1 top -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Linux filesystems accessible from FreeBSD 8-stable?

2010-09-28 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Leif Walsh leif.wa...@gmail.com wrote: I can't seem to get a definitive answer on this from the internet, there's a lot of conflicting information. I have some data drives formatted with ext4, which I'd like to access from freebsd, preferably without totally

Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread victor kovacs
Mouse works in text mode in root and personal directories. Does not work in KDE graphics after startx is typed in personal directory. Graphics comes up normally. Using a ps2 mouse. Any suggestions? Regards, victor ___

Re: Free BSD 8.1

2010-09-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 21:20:49 -0400, victor kovacs slowp...@pathcom.com wrote: Mouse works in text mode in root and personal directories. Does not work in KDE graphics after startx is typed in personal directory. Graphics comes up normally. Using a ps2 mouse. Any suggestions?

Tuxpaint won't run

2010-09-28 Thread Caleb Stein
Whenever I run TuxPaint, it crashes, stating that it was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.4.3, but is running with png.c from libpng-1.2.40. When I run pkg_info|grep png, it says that png is at version 1.4.3. What is the problem? ___

Re: Tuxpaint won't run

2010-09-28 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 28 Sep 2010 20:45:09 -0700, Caleb Stein caleb.st...@me.com wrote: Whenever I run TuxPaint, it crashes, stating that it was compiled with png.h from libpng-1.4.3, but is running with png.c from libpng-1.2.40. When I run pkg_info|grep png, it says that png is at version 1.4.3. What

Disappearing available space with ZFS...what am I missing?

2010-09-28 Thread Aaron
I've created a ZFS pool with zpool create tank raidz ada0 ada1 ada2 ada3, and then I add some additional mountpoints (I think they're called) using zfs create tank/storage, etc. In zpool list, I see the pool with 3.62T available. With df -h, I see 2.4T available for tank, and tank/storage. When I