Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Eitan Adler wrote: > Nice Script! > I intend to steal parts of it for my own use. It's great when you can plunder without robbing anyone :) > > P.S. Maybe I ought to expand it to IPv6 considering that the IPv4 > > address space has [reportedly] finally ran out (is that t

Re: Portupgrade and "Updating the portsdb"

2011-02-11 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 10 February 2011 08:33, c0re wrote: > Hello all! > > I've got set of servers that uses NFS mounted /usr/ports. When I use > "portupgrade samba" on 1st server it says > [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid > argument] [Updating the portsdb in /usr/ports ... - > 2260

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > Ignoring the TRIM issue for a moment . . . > > You're probably best off saving SSD storage for cases where you have lots > of reads and little to no write activity, unless you enjoy buying new > SSDs a lot. Actually, let's not ignore TRIM; t

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > also i noticed that when a processes CPU activity goes up to let's say 10% and > then down again to 0% this doesn't mean that the idle process will jump to > 200% > instantly, but it takes ~ 10 seconds for it to reclaim the CPU activity that > w

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Feb 11 11, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > >> It means (c). Kernel activity, short-lived transient processes, and > >> imperfections in sampling data are the other ~13 / 10 % > > > > thanks. it seems in some cases these imperfections have qui

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Alexander Best wrote: >> It means (c). Kernel activity, short-lived transient processes, and >> imperfections in sampling data are the other ~13 / 10 % > > thanks. it seems in some cases these imperfections have quite an impact: > > last pid: 48135; load averag

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Feb 11 11, Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > > a) my system is 100% idle, since no processes except the idle process takes > > up > > up CPU time or > > b) that a or some processes take up 2% CPU time which aren't being shown or > > c) that each of

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > a) my system is 100% idle, since no processes except the idle process takes up > up CPU time or > b) that a or some processes take up 2% CPU time which aren't being shown or > c) that each of my cpu core is only 86.6/89.4% idle? It means (c).

deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i'm trying to decipher the following top(1) output: otaku% top -PSHb -d2 last pid: 14206; load averages: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 up 1+02:08:5801:13:21 256 processes: 3 running, 238 sleeping, 15 waiting Mem: 1356M Active, 141M Inact, 342M Wired, 79M Cache, 212M Buf, 44M Free Swap: 18

Re: VESA and SDL in tty terminal

2011-02-11 Thread David Demelier
On 10/02/2011 15:37, Anonymous wrote: David Demelier writes: Hello, The SDL's pkg-message says we can use video driver in tty terminal. To do this you have to load the vesa kernel module or enable it in your kernel, and set environment variable "SDL_VIDEODRIVER=vgl". I tried it with mpl

Re: VESA and SDL in tty terminal

2011-02-11 Thread Anonymous
David Demelier writes: > On 10/02/2011 15:37, Anonymous wrote: >> David Demelier writes: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> The SDL's pkg-message says we can use video driver in tty terminal. >>> >>> To do this you have to load the vesa kernel module or enable it in your >>> kernel, and set environment v

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread RW
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:13:43 -0800 David Brodbeck wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe > wrote: > > Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. > > My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin > > and I have set both ntpd_enable="YES" and nt

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Nothing to do oh, freebsd-questions stay in bat! 2011/02/03 18:02:09 -0800 Rem P Roberti => To FreeBSD : RPR> Now that I understand how to get a scanner working, if there are any RPR> photographers out there who are using scanners with FreeBSD for RPR> negatives or slides I would love to hear a

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:13:43 -0800 David Brodbeck wrote: > On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe > wrote: > > Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. > > My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin > > and I have set both ntpd_enable="YES" and nt

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. My /etc/localtime > is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin and I have set both > ntpd_enable="YES" and ntpd_sync_on_start="YES". ntpd has a sanity check -- if the clock is o

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:40:37AM +, Paul Macdonald wrote: > > I'd be interested to here peoples opinions on best uses for SSD, general > purpose applications such as databases , webservers etc will benefit > obviously, > > but i'm also curious as to disk intensive applications such as ma

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > My ntp.conf consists of > > server ntp1.ptb.de prefer > server ntp2.ptb.de > restrict default ignore > restrict 127.0.0.1 > > Surely, I must be missing something. Does anybody have an idea? What does "ntpq -p -c rv" indicate? It wouldn'

system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin and I have set both ntpd_enable="YES" and ntpd_sync_on_start="YES". My ntp.conf consists of server ntp1.ptb.de prefer server ntp2.ptb.de restrict default ignore restrict 127.0.0.

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Hi Devin, Thanks for sharing your work. The list strips non-text attachments so there isn't much to see at the moment though... --- Fleuriot Damien On 11 Feb 2011, at 04:53, Devin Teske wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to announce the release of a new script. A script that I've > developed f

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Devin Teske
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 08:56 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > Hi Devin, > > > Thanks for sharing your work. > > The list strips non-text attachments so there isn't much to see at the moment > though... Thanks Damien. Here's a link to the pic I posted online in-tandem with the post to the list

FreeBSD's tftp and tftpd-hpa

2011-02-11 Thread Martin Cracauer
FreeBSD's current tftp client doesn't work with tftpd-hpa. FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT (XEN) #0: Fri Jan 21 15:54:41 EST 2011 ~(fbpv)1% tftp 192.168.1.1 tftp> get pxeboot Got ERROR packet: Unsupported option(s) requested Error code 2048: Unsupported option(s) requested tftp> Anybody got a solution for t

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 349, Issue 8, Message: 15 On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:53:53 -0800 Devin Teske wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to announce the release of a new script. A script that I've > developed for our field engineers that I'd like to share with the rest > of the world. > >

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:56:42 +0100 Damien Fleuriot wrote: > The list strips non-text attachments so there isn't much to see at > the moment though... It wasn't supposed to be attached - try http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt :) -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: how to add a few hundred ip on one interface?

2011-02-11 Thread Nathan Vidican
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Guillermo Fernando Cotone < guillermo.cot...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 02/11/2011 09:55 AM, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote: > > And this construction work? > > > > ipv4_addrs_ed0="192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-2/28 192.0.2.4-5/28" > > > It would work only if all the IPs w

Re: how to add a few hundred ip on one interface?

2011-02-11 Thread Vladislav V. Prodan
11.02.2011 15:25, Guillermo Fernando Cotone wrote: > On 02/11/2011 09:55 AM, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote: >> And this construction work? >> >> ipv4_addrs_ed0="192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-2/28 192.0.2.4-5/28" >> > It would work only if all the IPs were on the same subnet. If you want > to use di

Re: how to add a few hundred ip on one interface?

2011-02-11 Thread Guillermo Fernando Cotone
On 02/11/2011 09:55 AM, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote: > And this construction work? > > ipv4_addrs_ed0="192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-2/28 192.0.2.4-5/28" > It would work only if all the IPs were on the same subnet. If you want to use different subnets you need to implement vlans on that interface

Re: how to add a few hundred ip on one interface?

2011-02-11 Thread Vladislav V. Prodan
11.02.2011 8:07, Matthew Seaman пишет: > ipv4_addrs_re0="xxx.xxx.yyy.134-147/23" > > See rc.conf(5) for details. And this construction work? ipv4_addrs_ed0="192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-2/28 192.0.2.4-5/28" -- Vladislav V. Prodan VVP24-UANIC +38[067]4584408 +38[099]4060508 vla...@jabber.ru

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Nothing to do oh, freebsd-questions stay in bat! 2011/02/11 09:40:37 + Paul Macdonald => To FreeBSD Mailing List : PM> I'd be interested to here peoples opinions on best uses for SSD, general PM> purpose applications such as databases , webservers etc will benefit PM> obviously, Sun.com b

FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-11 Thread Paul Macdonald
Hi, Is anyone using SSD drives on freeBSD server systems? I'm attracted by the performance increases i've seen on both my desktops and laptops (quite amazing and easy upgrade if you've not tried).. I see from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM#Operating_system_and_SSD_support that

RE: switching from gnu make to bsd make

2011-02-11 Thread Vikash Badal
> -Original Message- > From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bonomi > Sent: 11 February 2011 01:59 AM > To: Vikash Badal > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: switching from gnu make to bsd make > > Try ty

Re: Recording from sound card

2011-02-11 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:17:57 -0500, Robert Ames wrote: > > I'm having problems trying to record from a sound card under > 8.1-RELEASE. The last time I tried this was many releases ago, > possibly 4.x-RELEASE. Back then I would do something like "cat > /dev/dsp > file" but now when I try it I ju