Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-06 Thread b. f.
> I have heard that Debian project has replaced the Linux kernel in > their distribution with FreeBSD kernel and have released Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD. Since this version, they will release Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD as a "stable" port. > What is this all about? As you can see from their webpages, they r

Re: Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-06 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 07), Bahman Kahinpour said: > I have heard that Debian project has replaced the Linux kernel in > their distribution with FreeBSD kernel and have released Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD. Since this version, they will release Debian > GNU/kFreeBSD as a "stable" port. > What is this a

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Eric Schuele wrote: > Ok... found the logs. :) > Looks as if each machine has 4 log files, and that the set of files is > from the last run. Anything in there I could post to help diagnose? > Let's see what's in the most recent log of an affected VM. If you hav

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Rob Farmer
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:03 PM, Chris Brennan wrote: > Net, I've formatted drives as fat32 that were well over 4gb. In fact I have > an external 120gb we datavault that's fat32 > Max per file, not the whole partition. Virtual machines generally store the whole disk as a single file, though Vmware

Debian GNU/kFreeBSD

2011-02-06 Thread Bahman Kahinpour
Hello, I have heard that Debian project has replaced the Linux kernel in their distribution with FreeBSD kernel and have released Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Since this version, they will release Debian GNU/kFreeBSD as a "stable" port. What is this all about? What will be consequences for FreeBSD? Will a

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Eric Schuele
On 02/06/2011 21:17, Eric Schuele wrote: > On 02/06/2011 11:35, Adam Vande More wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Eric Schuele wrote: >> >>> What else could I provide that might allow someone to point me in the >>> right direction here? >>> >> You can try recompiling virtualbox with debug

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Eric Schuele
On 02/06/2011 11:35, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Eric Schuele wrote: > >> What else could I provide that might allow someone to point me in the >> right direction here? >> > > You can try recompiling virtualbox with debug options and see if it spits > out any pertine

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Brennan
Net, I've formatted drives as fat32 that were well over 4gb. In fact I have an external 120gb we datavault that's fat32 -- Sent from my Droid On Feb 6, 2011 5:25 PM, "Mario Lobo" wrote: > On Sunday 06 February 2011 17:48:45 Chris Brennan wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Eric Schuele wro

Re: nedit problem

2011-02-06 Thread b. f.
Fred Boatwright wrote: > On 02/06/11 00:53, b. f. wrote: > > Fred Boatwright wrote: > > > >> After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right > >> mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text > >> area, for example to copy a block of text, the cursor

Re: kern.crit messages

2011-02-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Feb 2011 12:21:02 -0600, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > > > Thanks. Can someone confirm these steps as the best way to attempt to > > get back to a 8.1 kernel I originally installed... > > > > 1. update my tag line to 8_1 > > 2. up

Re: if the file changes send email about diff

2011-02-06 Thread J65nko
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 2:33 PM, kellyremo wrote: > > I have 2 script. Script "A", Script "B". > > Script "A" is regulary watching the "dhcpacks" [dhcp release is configured to > 2mins] in the logs, for the past 2 minutes. it writes the MAC addresses to a > file [/dev/shm/dhcpacks-in-last-2min.tx

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Mario Lobo
On Sunday 06 February 2011 17:48:45 Chris Brennan wrote: > On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Eric Schuele wrote: > > I realize NTFS on fBSD has been shaky in the past, but had heard it had > > come a long way these days. It does seem to work well for all my > > purposes, except these VMs. Had hope

Re: Why does my 8.2-RC3 dvd1 boot DOS?

2011-02-06 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 03:48:45PM -0500, Chuck Bacon wrote: > > SERIOUS APOLOGIES! I've found out my dvd is marginal, or > possibly the drive. What seemed like a bad dvd apparently > resulted in a scan (by the BIOS?) until it found a boot loader > it understood, "PC-DOS" it said, which was one o

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Mario Lobo
On Sunday 06 February 2011 13:09:47 Eric Schuele wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion, however, I've already tried this (sorta). > From my original post... > > >> I did try a windows guest on a non fuse filesystem just to rule that > >> out, but had same issue. > > I suppose it may have been a

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Chris Brennan
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Eric Schuele wrote: > > I realize NTFS on fBSD has been shaky in the past, but had heard it had > come a long way these days. It does seem to work well for all my > purposes, except these VMs. Had hoped NTFS was not the issue. ntfs/ntfs-3g is foolhardy at best i

Re: Why does my 8.2-RC3 dvd1 boot DOS?

2011-02-06 Thread Chuck Bacon
SERIOUS APOLOGIES! I've found out my dvd is marginal, or possibly the drive. What seemed like a bad dvd apparently resulted in a scan (by the BIOS?) until it found a boot loader it understood, "PC-DOS" it said, which was one of several I discovered in grepping the ISO file. I should have done fr

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 7:12 PM, Eric Schuele wrote: > What else could I provide that might allow someone to point me in the > right direction here? > You can try recompiling virtualbox with debug options and see if it spits out any pertinent messages. I have no problems with Windows guests on V

Re: kern.crit messages

2011-02-06 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 12:10 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > Thanks. Can someone confirm these steps as the best way to attempt to > get back to a 8.1 kernel I originally installed... > > 1. update my tag line to 8_1 > 2. update my source tree > For step 3, you can something like "make buildkerne

Re: nedit problem

2011-02-06 Thread Fred
On 02/06/11 00:53, b. f. wrote: Fred Boatwright wrote: After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text area, for example to copy a block of text, the cursor changes shape and the X session becomes com

Re: Set tty resolution using hint.sc.0.flags with VESA

2011-02-06 Thread b. f.
David Demelier wrote: >> hint.sc.0.vesa_mode=0x1f0 ... >absolutely great! But where did you find these vesa_mode setting? It's >not documented anywhere. Look again: syscons(4), in the Synopsis and the "Driver Flags" section. b. ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: kern.crit messages

2011-02-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
On 2/6/2011 12:20 PM, Vallo Kallaste wrote: > By using the line: > *default release=cvs tag=. > for src-all collection you definitely grabbed -current sources. I'm > not sure if downgrading by "make world" is supported but you could > try. Backup first, try later.. Thanks. Can someone confirm thes

Re: kern.crit messages

2011-02-06 Thread RW
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 12:04:59 -0500 Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I have a server I installed 8.1-RELEASE on and believe I screwed up > when rebuilding the kernel to support QUOTA because now that I am > troubleshooting these weird messages in the log, I find I am actually > running 9.0-CURRENT. I h

Re: Set tty resolution using hint.sc.0.flags with VESA

2011-02-06 Thread David Demelier
On 06/02/2011 17:52, Dima Panov wrote: Hello! [fluffy@Beastie] ~$ cat /boot/device.hints|grep sc.0 hint.sc.0.at="isa" hint.sc.0.flags="0x180" hint.sc.0.vesa_mode=0x1f0 absolutely great! But where did you find these vesa_mode setting? It's not documented anywhere. Cheers, -- David Demelie

Re: OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 08:42:27AM -0500, Bill Moran wrote: > > Also, I'm having trouble understanding how people like that get grants > to do work like that. On the one hand, they obviously know enough about > cryptography to make improvements. On the other hand, they can't seem > to get a grip

Re: kern.crit messages

2011-02-06 Thread Vallo Kallaste
On Sun, Feb 06, 2011 at 12:04:59PM -0500, Robert Fitzpatrick wrote: > I have a server I installed 8.1-RELEASE on and believe I screwed up when > rebuilding the kernel to support QUOTA because now that I am > troubleshooting these weird messages in the log, I find I am actually > running 9.0-CURRE

kern.crit messages

2011-02-06 Thread Robert Fitzpatrick
I have a server I installed 8.1-RELEASE on and believe I screwed up when rebuilding the kernel to support QUOTA because now that I am troubleshooting these weird messages in the log, I find I am actually running 9.0-CURRENT. I had a ports file as below when I pulled the source to rebuild the kernel

Re: Set tty resolution using hint.sc.0.flags with VESA

2011-02-06 Thread Dima Panov
Hello! [fluffy@Beastie] ~$ cat /boot/device.hints|grep sc.0 hint.sc.0.at="isa" hint.sc.0.flags="0x180" hint.sc.0.vesa_mode=0x1f0 07.02.2011, 01:50, "David Demelier" : > Hello, > > I don't like much to use allscreens_flags to set my tty resolution > because it's done at the end of /etc/rc process

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Eric Schuele
On 02/06/2011 09:23, Mario Lobo wrote: > On Saturday 05 February 2011 22:12:45 Eric Schuele wrote: > >> All, > >> > >> I have a laptop running 8.2-prerelease GENERIC. I have virtualbox ose > >> 3.2.12 from ports (and kmod as well). > >> > >> I've only installed windows guests in vbox. I've in

Re: nedit problem

2011-02-06 Thread Fred
On 02/06/11 00:53, b. f. wrote: Fred Boatwright wrote: After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text area, for example to copy a block of text, the cursor changes shape and the X session becomes com

Set tty resolution using hint.sc.0.flags with VESA

2011-02-06 Thread David Demelier
Hello, I don't like much to use allscreens_flags to set my tty resolution because it's done at the end of /etc/rc process. I know we can edit the hint.sc.0.flags in /boot/device.hints to set the resolution at the earliest stage. I want to use the 1366x768 mode : # vidcontrol -i mode [... sn

Re: 8.2 prerelease, virtualbox, and windows guests that freeze...

2011-02-06 Thread Mario Lobo
On Saturday 05 February 2011 22:12:45 Eric Schuele wrote: > All, > > I have a laptop running 8.2-prerelease GENERIC. I have virtualbox ose > 3.2.12 from ports (and kmod as well). > > I've only installed windows guests in vbox. I've installed windows 2008 > server 64, windows vista 64bit, and wi

Re: OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread Bill Moran
In response to kellyremo : > https://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/hpn-v-ssh-tput.jpg > > "SCP and the underlying SSH2 protocol implementation in OpenSSH is network > performance limited by statically defined internal flow control buffers. > These buffers often end up acting as a bott

if the file changes send email about diff

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
I have 2 script. Script "A", Script "B". Script "A" is regulary watching the "dhcpacks" [dhcp release is configured to 2mins] in the logs, for the past 2 minutes. it writes the MAC addresses to a file [/dev/shm/dhcpacks-in-last-2min.txt] every 2 minutes. Ok, this is working, active clients are

OpenSSH could be faster...then why don't they path it??

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
https://www.psc.edu/networking/projects/hpn-ssh/hpn-v-ssh-tput.jpg "SCP and the underlying SSH2 protocol implementation in OpenSSH is network performance limited by statically defined internal flow control buffers. These buffers often end up acting as a bottleneck for network throughput of SCP,

"https is faster on amd64?"

2011-02-06 Thread kellyremo
http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2011/01/31/dispelling-the-new-ssl-myth.aspx according to the "SSL Performance" table it says that the transactions per second is 2-3 times better using 64bit kernels opposite to 32bit kernels? is this true, or i am just misunderstanding so