Re: putting "/tmp" to memory

2011-01-24 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 24 Jan 2011 12:18:21 + RW wrote: > tmpfs is nominally > experimental, but it seems to be very stable, and it's much more > memory efficient than md devices. But it doesn't work well with ZFS. -- Bruce Cran __

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-18 Thread Bruce Cran
plain UFS but PCBSD's (pc-sysinstall) supports encryption, ZFS etc. - and it can do a plain FreeBSD installation as well as PCBSD. You can get it from http://www.pcbsd.org . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: documentation OF FreeBSD

2011-01-18 Thread Bruce Cran
mething like http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/mail-agents.html ? :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-q

Re: Acer Aspire One D250 disk spin-down problem

2011-01-16 Thread Bruce Cran
a short default timeout after which they park the heads. I think you'd need to run the wdidle3.exe application to disable the internal timer, but it may just be a default APM setting that can be changed from within FreeBSD using sysutils/ataidle

Re: Resume from suspend

2011-01-13 Thread Bruce Cran
ng the power button? (or opening the lid) Suspend/resume generally doesn't work - apparently there's lots of work that needs done before it'll be reliable. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: error while compile port

2011-01-08 Thread Bruce Cran
ystem itself. So MAKE_JOBS_SAFE applies to the code, "make -j 16" applies to the ports infrastructure - both of which could be using BSD make :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/ma

Re: error while compile port

2011-01-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:43:22 +0200 Коньков Евгений wrote: > cd /usr/ports// > make -j 16 install Don't do that then :) Ports which are marked MAKE_JOBS_SAFE will automatically be built using -j as far as I know. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebs

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
RootOnZFS/ZFSBootPartition has a good guide for installing the base manually (you can ignore the gpart and zfs commands if you want). I found I had to copy the base and kernel directories from the install ISO to a UFS-formatted USB stick first though since the LiveFS CD doesn't have the distributions.

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:13:08 +0300 Odhiambo Washington wrote: > So, how do I fix/manoeuvre around that problem? Unfortunately you'd need to use a different tool to partition/label the disk, such as gpart. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-q

Re: sysinstall error on 8.2-PRE

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
tended with additional types (e.g. glabel, gsched) that libdisk doesn't know about - so it gets confused. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send a

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 6 Jan 2011 20:06:42 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith wrote: > Just be sure NOT to use the 'A' option for auto-partitioning again; > I'm sure I saw some problem with that on 8.1, not sure if it's fixed > on 8.2 (Bruce?) so I suggest allocating the BSD partitioning you &

Re: Swap Space

2011-01-05 Thread Bruce Cran
wapping to a file is really slow and should only be done if absolutely necessary since every read/write has to go through the filesystem code which it doesn't do if done via a swap slice. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: Any recommendations for FreeBSD VPS hosting?

2011-01-05 Thread Bruce Cran
panies.com/jc_bsd.html > > > > If you know of any other FreeBSD VPS providers, please share. > > For people this side of the pond, http://www.goscomb.net do FreeBSD VPS's too. They're a bit expensive but you get a VM that's just

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-02 Thread Bruce Cran
me about not being able to find /dev/ad4s1b. See my post later in the thread: this most likely has nothing to do with the partition layout but the fact that FreeBSD is finding an old partition scheme. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@fr

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2011-01-02 Thread Bruce Cran
> This from sysinstall and occurs after fdisk, labeling, at the point > when sysinstall then tries to write out the config to the disk and > newfs. This can happen if you've had it partitioned using GPT at some point - in that case you need to use dd to z

Re: csup and build question

2011-01-01 Thread Bruce Cran
The TCP stack has been modified to allow Khelp modules to interact with it via helper hook points and store per-connection data in the TCP control block. Bump __FreeBSD_version to 900029. User space tools that rely on the size of struct tcpcb in tcp_var.h (e.g. sockstat) need to be recompiled

Re: load windows

2010-12-31 Thread Bruce Cran
the name of the disk, for example ad0. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: How to build a BROKEN port?

2010-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 10:49:25 +1000 Da Rock wrote: > Pardon me for being the queer one to ask this- but how does one > force/override building a port marked as broken? Edit the port's Makefile and comment-out the BROKEN line. --

Re: Any recommendations for FreeBSD VPS hosting?

2010-12-29 Thread Bruce Cran
the resulting price. I can't see any mention of it on their site - do you know if they have datacentres other than in Los Angeles? Being based in Europe it's too far away. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists

Re: Android phone and FreeBSD 8.1

2010-12-28 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:20:02 -0800 (PST) "Justin V." wrote: > With my phone, sometimes I have to enable "Disc Drive" The OP said: "When I plug it to the USB port and activate the "Storage" option, this i

Re: Portmaster general questions and problems

2010-12-26 Thread Bruce Cran
tmaster wrong? That's a problem I've come across before too - I'd be interested to know what's going wrong too. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: kernel config file according to config(5): inconsistent ?

2010-12-26 Thread Bruce Cran
OPTION token doesn't accept an Opt_list, just a Save_Id - it's just OPTIONS and MAKEOPTIONS that can have a list. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: kernel config file according to config(5): inconsistent ?

2010-12-26 Thread Bruce Cran
either. It should be fairly easy to see what's wrong since the parser's in usr.sbin/config/config.y . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Can FreeBSD utilize VT/HVM ?

2010-12-25 Thread Bruce Cran
eally cool, especially since they do not need VT - but I was > wondering if there was an advantage to having VT when running FreeBSD. > > Or would the VT be more-or -less unused with FreeBSD? emulators/virtualbox-ose can make use of it. -- Bruce Cran __

Re: Well, I broke it! FreeBSD V8.1 release

2010-12-22 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:01:10 - "Dave" wrote: > Sysinstall alows you to select and enable one, but not remove it! > > Bit of an oversight that I suspect Fixed in r216651 :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: SEBSD is dead?

2010-12-17 Thread Bruce Cran
ndbook/mac.html). Other projects from TrustedBSD such as OpenBSM continue to be integrated as they reach completion. http://www.trustedbsd.org/news.html has details on the current projects. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Spam with fake address from the list?

2010-12-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 12:40:35 +0100 Michelle Konzack wrote: > does someone get this kind of spam too? Yes, lots of people have been getting that for a few months. parklogic claim there's not anything they can do about it despite it apparently coming from their servers. -- Br

Re: 8.0-RELEASE-i386-memstick fixit - No USB devices found!

2010-12-13 Thread Bruce Cran
going to happen I've committed the change to the error message. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: xpbargains.net spam [was: Re: 'Broadcom Wireless b/g (BCM4315/BCM22062000)']

2010-12-11 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:41:48 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > Does GMail provide access to the full headers? Click the down arrow and select "Show original". -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-08 Thread Bruce Cran
quot;the argument", implying that it's something I don't agree with :) I do think we need to be careful to remember that plenty of people don't have modern setups. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-08 Thread Bruce Cran
rt) from a second > system, already running FreeBSD and "exporting" the install > CD via plip. The argument is normally that even without a CD drive everyone has USB so should install using that instead of floppies. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-q

Re: USB management utility

2010-12-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 7 Dec 2010 16:21:43 -0700 Chad Perrin wrote: > Is there a simple command line utility that takes the disorganized > annoyance out of simple USB device management? usbconfig(8)? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-07 Thread Bruce Cran
d > it be more efficient if FAQs were auto archived & easily found in > an instal...@freebsd.org archive ? We've had freebsd-sysinst...@freebsd.org for a few months now. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: FreeBSD 3.5.1-RELEASE

2010-12-07 Thread Bruce Cran
have 64MB memory you'll need to build a custom kernel to get the most out of it. I have an equivalent machine with 128MB RAM (EPIA5000 with a 533MHz CPU) and it does routing and runs a DNS server well enough. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-07 Thread Bruce Cran
t; bad floppies when I needed five to install DR-DOS in 1999. Floppies > are now eleven years more advanced into deterioration. It's easy enough to find error-free floppy disks if you don't mind paying for them: http://www.amazon.co.uk/b?ie=UTF

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-07 Thread Bruce Cran
m CD, DVD > or USB drive. If the user starts with a blank HDD then the installer loads from the CD/DVD, starts the web server on the disc and the user browses to the machine as normal. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-06 Thread Bruce Cran
unusable for specific > settings (headless, serial, text)? There's a discussion including the announcement at http://markmail.org/message/nlmq7yquevkpmb47 . But yes, I think you will need to use some sort of web browser unless someone writes a diffe

Re: Installer program for FreeBSD-9.0?

2010-12-06 Thread Bruce Cran
be made while not taking on the work of a complete rewrite. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s

2010-12-05 Thread Bruce Cran
re are no > messages, just a pause. It seems you're right: I checked and the HDD light is permanently on during the pause. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB?

2010-12-04 Thread Bruce Cran
tall it. It turns out that it only supports booting from GPT via an EFI firmware, not using the PMBR and a legacy BIOS. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB?

2010-12-03 Thread Bruce Cran
abeled drive. So regardless of your OS, you may > still have issues. That's why we have the Protective MBR that allows a 'legacy' BIOS to boot from GPT. I'm not sure if you can boot past the 2TB point with it though. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: Support for hard drives > 2 TB?

2010-12-03 Thread Bruce Cran
d=100 there are Caviar Black drives up to 2TB. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Bruce Cran
lts to FAT32 on removable drives, so you might need to use '-t msdosfs' instead. In newer versions of Windows you can also format disks using exFAT which I don't believe is supported in the open source world yet. -- Bruce Cran ___ fr

Re: USB Thumb Drive

2010-12-01 Thread Bruce Cran
;file -s" against the device node. e.g. /dev/ada0s3: x86 boot sector, code offset 0x52, OEM-ID "NTFS", sectors/cluster 8, reserved sectors 0, Media descriptor 0xf8, heads 255, hidden sectors 440608768, dos < 4.0 BootSector (0x80) That tell

Re: 8 partitions maximum

2010-12-01 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:51:48 + Paul B Mahol wrote: [snip 9 levels of quoting] > It is hardcoded. Not my code. Could you remember to remove excess quotes please? It's getting a bit ridiculous having to scroll past 50 lines to see a one-line reply :) -- Br

Re: gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s

2010-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
re are no > messages, just a pause. I'm doing a clean reboot, and I don't remember it taking this long when I had a ZFS-only system booting from a disk with an MBR scheme. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

gpt zfs booting - loader takes 25s

2010-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
time when booting from GPT? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Digital camera (Canon)

2010-11-28 Thread Bruce Cran
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_Transfer_Protocol . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: How long laptop battery should live ?

2010-11-24 Thread Bruce Cran
settings to tune which will decrease power consumption. In order to get those savings you need to set hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest to C2 or C3. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questio

Re: foo; no such thing as a "dual-nic" atom firewall

2010-11-24 Thread Bruce Cran
e.g. http://reviews.cnet.com/adapters-nics/d-link-dfe-570tx/1707-3380_7-785663.html -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ques

Re: 32 or 64 bit as server ?

2010-11-23 Thread Bruce Cran
ling a 32-bit version is if you're stuck with a machine with a very limited amount of memory. For example I'm having to run www/mail/db in only 256MB, so I chose not to install the 64-bit version which would use more memory. -- Bruce Cran __

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-19 Thread Bruce Cran
on-zero so I think people should probably stop worrying about the raw value and learn to focus on the Value/Worst/Thesh fields instead. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-18 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010 12:51:13 + Bruce Cran wrote: > There's a guide to installing FreeBSD on zfs at > http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot . Note that even if you > have a 'legacy' BIOS you can still use GPT - if you use the MBR scheme > you'll be limit

Re: FreeBSD and large harddrives

2010-11-18 Thread Bruce Cran
fixing filesystem errors isn't something you can normally do. There's a guide to installing FreeBSD on zfs at http://wiki.freebsd.org/RootOnZFS/GPTZFSBoot . Note that even if you have a 'legacy' BIOS you can still use GPT - if you use the MBR sc

Re: spamassassin config help

2010-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
about filtering spam into different directories. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Does MAC version of iTunes work on FreeBSD?

2010-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
far as I know nobody's working on Mach-O compatbility on FreeBSD so applications would need to be recompiled. http://wiki.gnustep.org/index.php/Cocoa -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-13 Thread Bruce Cran
pplication, until its handle has been closed. This is also referred to as exclusive access." from http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363874%28VS.85%29.aspx -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-13 Thread Bruce Cran
a moderator with a set for this forum. The NTDEV list has another way of dealing with these issues: a thread can get locked if it strays off-topic or becomes otherwise useless, preventing further follow-ups. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD on Rackspace Could

2010-11-13 Thread Bruce Cran
osting on a DSL line is out of the question due to both latency and reliability. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Bruce Cran
and as such is rather offputting. If you want it to be your signature it should be separated from the main block of text somehow - preferably by the signature separator ("-- " followed by a newline). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: Why do you use a devil as a mascot?

2010-11-12 Thread Bruce Cran
know that by now. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Bruce Cran
the UI), and then working around it. This is why at least on Windows there's often a C/COM/.NET API that allows the same level of control that the GUI provides, so that customers can automate tasks. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Bruce Cran
o script GUI applications. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Bruce Cran
done, mainly because I've always had more important things to learn and the "inefficiencies" of GUI editors don't really worry me. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 11:00:59 +0100 Polytropon wrote: > On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 09:43:01 +0000, Bruce Cran > wrote: > > [...] I do think a well-designed GUI can increase productivity by > > bringing things together that would otherwise be separate. > > Yes. Plain YES. I&#x

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-08 Thread Bruce Cran
minals and command-line operation - and I grew up running BBC BASIC and have been using FreeBSD for many years. I love having the command-line available and indeed often develop software using just an xterm but I do think a well-designed GUI can increase productivity by bringing things together

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Bruce Cran
-> branch/tag..." to create a branch and have it done in a minute. Using the command-line I'd have to spend time reading up on the commandline parameters to achieve the same thing, since it's something I only do about once a year or so. -- Bruce Cran

Re: Anybody know apt-get ?

2010-11-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010 08:52:00 -0500 Chris Brennan wrote: > I am going to take a stab in the dark here and suggest that some sort > of db needs to be built for apt ... clues in the part /var/db.. > (man apt-get?) "apt-get update&qu

Re: FreeBSD as a xen host

2010-11-07 Thread Bruce Cran
perator > Error expanding embedded variable. > > > Does anyone have any advice on how to get this to work? Looks like you might need to use GNU make ("gmake") instead of "make"? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-question

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-07 Thread Bruce Cran
e kdiff3 instead of plain "svn diff" and KDE makes that simple. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
ually. FreeBSD by itself may be a lot more lightweight than Windows but once you add in Xorg and KDE I think it needs about the same, if not more, memory. People will argue that you don't have to run KDE or GNOME but as can be seen from the success of Ubuntu people like complete desktop

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-06 Thread Bruce Cran
e from ports) to run both at the same time. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
data that is flowing in via the background that stalls things. > (I have just shut off the automated flow.) You can run "systat -if" to see how much bandwidth is being used by the computer. At 1M you should see around 120KB/s downlink. -- Bruce Cran __

Re: SSHgaurd and PF

2010-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
(assuming it is a legit hoster that cares) and they do > something about it, there are thousands more. Yes but it's one less. Most recently I emailed a VPS provider and got the owner's account suspended after they ran an ssh attack on my server. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: is there a utillity...?

2010-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
um raw throughput. It's normally obtained via a web browser but some modems can also be configured to provide it over SNMP. By the way your subject lines could be improved - they don't tend to be very descriptive :) -- Bruce Cran ___ f

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
one). There's a new version of sade being worked on by ae@ in svn /user/ae that fixes lots of the problems. With pc-sysinstall getting all the attention I doubt sysinstall will have any more work done on it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questi

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
e freebsd container, you would use ad4s1. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
is still rather poor, and I'm not aware of any official documentation. I wrote a more detailed post in http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-fs/2010-August/009176.html which explains the commands. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

2010-10-31 Thread Bruce Cran
e.g. gpart create -s mbr /dev/disk gpart add -t freebsd /dev/disk gpart create -s bsd /dev/disk gpart add -t freebsd-ufs /dev/disks1 newfs /dev/disks1a -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listi

Re: Amavisd-new issues..

2010-10-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 01:11:32 -0700 (PDT) "Justin V." wrote: > Everything goes fine until its time to start amavisd-new. > > It just doesnt start and I do not see anything in the logs to > indicate a problem. Have you checked /var/log/mai

Re: fsync: Linux vs FreeBSD

2010-10-26 Thread Bruce Cran
ttp://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=da&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE&format=html -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: VIA EPIA 5000 and ACPI Cx levels

2010-10-14 Thread Bruce Cran
deeper sleep states. Thanks. It sounds like things are working as they should then. Good to know the new timer code is working properly on this more unusual hardware! -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: Like it or not, Theo has a point... freebsd is shipping export-restricted software in the core

2010-10-11 Thread Bruce Cran
perform the audit. Which is why it's so important not to customize the license text when creating new files! -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: VIA EPIA 5000 and ACPI Cx levels

2010-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
recommendations to allow more sleeping, like at: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/TuningPowerConsumption I haven't done anything extra yet, since I was mainly interested in seeing if one-shot mode worked on this box. I can't use powerd because running at

VIA EPIA 5000 and ACPI Cx levels

2010-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
ls, but setting hw.acpi.cpu.cx_lowest to C3 I'm only seeing 0.8% time spent in C2 mode, the rest being in C1. The CPU's idle so I don't understand why it's not going into deeper sleep modes. Is this likely to just be an ACPI bug? -- Bruce Cran __

Re: how now [green] KDE?

2010-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sunday 10 October 2010 15:34:39 Polytropon wrote: > The "startkde" command should be fully sufficient, as all other things > are to be configured inside KDE. That may be "/usr/local/kde4/bin/startkde", since /usr/local/kde4/bin probably won'

Re: FreeBSD warning about unclean filesystems which won't be mounted

2010-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
HDD only ever contained /usr, /home, /var and swap. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

FreeBSD warning about unclean filesystems which won't be mounted

2010-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
hasn't been asked to mount yet? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: postfix installed in base, mailwrapper spins using 100% CPU

2010-10-07 Thread Bruce Cran
normally (when installed from ports) installs a "fake" > sendmail binary in /usr/local/bin. I think the problem occurs because in the OPTIONS menu I told it to install to /usr: INST_BASE "Install into /usr and /etc/postfix" I guess I need to remove /usr/sbin/sendmail a

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-07 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 7 Oct 2010 14:42:06 + Michel Talon wrote: > Bruce Cran said: > > > The top(1) man page is clearly in error, at least on FreeBSD > > systems. I did not say that. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

postfix installed in base, mailwrapper spins using 100% CPU

2010-10-07 Thread Bruce Cran
xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 21 Oct 2 09:50 /usr/sbin/sendmail -> /usr/sbin/mailwrapper Should it actually be the sendmail binary that postfix installs, and if so I'm wondering how it could have ended up being a symlink? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebs

Re: Massive portupgrade without being interrupted by configuration screens?

2010-10-02 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 09:49:49 -0500 Brandon Gooch wrote: > Well, I'm not using portupgrade, but instead ports-mgmt/portmaster: +1 -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-q

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Bruce Cran
sn't been updated. Instead, check that you have rev 1.1.1.5.2.1 of contrib/bzip2/decompress.c . I guess that since -stable isn't a release branch that it doesn't get security issues logged in UPDATING? -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Updating bzip2 to remove potential security vulnerability

2010-10-01 Thread Bruce Cran
x27;s been fixed in all supported security branches as well as HEAD (see http://svn.freebsd.org/viewvc/base/releng/8.1/UPDATING?view=log for example). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-09-29 Thread Bruce Cran
and cache. You can find more information about the VM architecture at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/arch-handbook/vm.html . -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: Software to SEND log files only?

2010-09-21 Thread Bruce Cran
@example.com Most mail servers will block sendmail's connections from a dynamic IP: the advantage to ssmtp is that it forwards mail to the ISP's server. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: Support for AIX

2010-09-16 Thread Bruce Cran
ryone really hates proprietry operating systems :) -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: (no subject)

2010-09-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 12:23:36 +0200 claudiu vasadi wrote: > what s-ata1 controller would you recommend in this case ? I don't know, I've just heard that the Sil adapters have a bad reputation, including for data corruption. Things may have improved in the 5 years since though. -

Re: (no subject)

2010-09-16 Thread Bruce Cran
for example. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: (no subject)

2010-09-16 Thread Bruce Cran
(Sil) based card - they're cheap but don't work well. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

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