Re: How to check current port options before updating

2011-08-31 Thread Kaspars Bankovskis
Yes, make config shows saved options. You can find them in the file /var/db/ports/portname/options as well. On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 10:36:16PM -0700, zszal...@ovi.com wrote: Dear all, I have been wondering how I can check current options of a port before I update it. The port in question

Re: How to check current port options before updating

2011-08-31 Thread Chris Hill
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, zszal...@ovi.com wrote: I have been wondering how I can check current options of a port before I update it. The port in question (apache22) has a number of options and I would like to look at the current ones so that I do not install options that I may not need. I'd

Re: How to check current port options before updating

2011-08-31 Thread Robert Huff
Kaspars Bankovskis writes: Yes, make config shows saved options. For clarity: do this in portgroup/portname. make showconfig is the read-only alternative. You can find them in the file /var/db/ports/portname/options as well. That works too.

Re: How to check current port options before updating

2011-08-31 Thread George Liaskos
On Wed, Aug 31, 2011 at 8:36 AM, zszal...@ovi.com wrote: Dear all, I have been wondering how I can check current options of a port before I update it. The port in question (apache22) has a number of options and I would like to look at the current ones so that I do not install options

How is my vnc getting started at boot

2011-08-29 Thread akshay sreeramoju
Hi! I am unable to figure how vncserver is being launched during local package initialization of my FreBSD 8.2 Release boot. Can anyone help or point me in right direction to figure where my vncserver is being launched from? I need to change my vnc root window size. Thanks, Akshay

Re: How is my vnc getting started at boot

2011-08-29 Thread Bernt Hansson
2011-08-30 04:47, akshay sreeramoju skrev: Hi! I am unable to figure how vncserver is being launched during local package initialization of my FreBSD 8.2 Release boot. Can anyone help or point me in right direction to figure where my vncserver is being launched from? I need to change my vnc

Re: How is my vnc getting started at boot

2011-08-29 Thread akshay sreeramoju
Thank you Bernt. You are right. I found vncserver.sh there. Regards, Akshay On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 8:01 PM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: 2011-08-30 04:47, akshay sreeramoju skrev: Hi! I am unable to figure how vncserver is being launched during local package

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-28 Thread Bernt Hansson
2011-08-27 13:18, Antonio Olivares skrev: I succeeded in updating like 5 packages out of 21, but now gnome-mount does not compile :( gnome-mount.c:44:30: error: libnotify/notify.h: No such file or directory You don't seem to have libnotify installed which will get you notify.h.

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Bernt Hansson b...@bananmonarki.se wrote: 2011-08-27 13:18, Antonio Olivares skrev: I succeeded in updating like 5 packages out of 21, but now gnome-mount does not compile :( gnome-mount.c:44:30: error: libnotify/notify.h: No such file or directory You

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-28 Thread Bernt Hansson
2011-08-28 13:13, Antonio Olivares skrev: On Sun, Aug 28, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Bernt Hanssonb...@bananmonarki.se wrote: 2011-08-27 13:18, Antonio Olivares skrev: I succeeded in updating like 5 packages out of 21, but now gnome-mount does not compile :( gnome-mount.c:44:30: error:

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-28 Thread Antonio Olivares
You don't seem to have libnotify installed which will get you notify.h. It was there, but something could have been wrong?  I cd'd to /usr/ports/devel/libnotify and ran make install clean, and it told me that it was already installed and that I should run make deinstall  reintstall again.  

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: Is there a way to update most packages except this one? See  man portmaster | less +2/-x Running # portmaster -a -x libreoffice does the trick :) Thanks very much. I ran

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 6:01 AM, ajtiM lum...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday 27 August 2011 00:56:20 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: I use: portmaster -ai I ask you if you want to install or not. Mitja Will it prompt me for every package? Or just for the ones that are failing? @all

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-27 Thread ajtiM
On Saturday 27 August 2011 00:56:20 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: I use: portmaster -ai I ask you if you want to install or not. Mitja http://jpgmag.com/people/lumiwa ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-26 Thread Antonio Olivares
Dear folks, I am trying to update one of my machines and I ran portmaster -a and got errors: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=145268 I overcome most by unselecting GNUTLS from cups-image and cups-base, and then comes === Launching child to update libreoffice-3.3.3_2 to

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-26 Thread Ross
On Sat, Aug 27, 2011 at 5:33 AM, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Dear folks, I am trying to update one of my machines and I ran portmaster -a and got errors: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?p=145268 I overcome most by unselecting GNUTLS from cups-image and

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-26 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote: Is there a way to update most packages except this one? See man portmaster | less +2/-x ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: how can I use portmaster to update but skip a package

2011-08-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Ross == Ross basarev...@gmail.com writes: Ross Maybe I spent to little time with portmaster, but I eventually Ross switched to portupgrade. I'ts more mature in my opinion. And Ross portupgrade -a doesn't have the problem you are referring to. I started with portupgrade, and am now firmly in

How to allow Amanda to install as operator?

2011-08-23 Thread Morse, Richard E.MGH
created just fine. Is there something that I'm missing? How am I supposed to install a port as a user that already exists? Why doesn't make see that the file exists? Thanks, Ricky The information in this e-mail is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed. If you believe this e-mail

Re: How to allow Amanda to install as operator?

2011-08-23 Thread Jason Helfman
/ports/OP_GROUP` (copying exactly from the error message), I can see the file I created just fine. Is there something that I'm missing? How am I supposed to install a port as a user that already exists? Why doesn't make see that the file exists? Thanks, Ricky If you update your portstree

Re: How to allow Amanda to install as operator?

2011-08-23 Thread Chris Rees
code 1 If I do a `less /usr/ports/OP_GROUP` (copying exactly from the error message), I can see the file I created just fine. Is there something that I'm missing? How am I supposed to install a port as a user that already exists? Why doesn't make see that the file exists? Update your ports

Re: How to allow Amanda to install as operator?

2011-08-23 Thread Morse, Richard E.MGH
exist. Exiting. *** Error code 1 If I do a `less /usr/ports/OP_GROUP` (copying exactly from the error message), I can see the file I created just fine. Is there something that I'm missing? How am I supposed to install a port as a user that already exists? Why doesn't make see

Re: How to allow Amanda to install as operator?

2011-08-23 Thread Chris Rees
for a while, then dies with the note: ** /usr/ports/OP_GROUP doesn't exist. Exiting. *** Error code 1 If I do a `less /usr/ports/OP_GROUP` (copying exactly from the error message), I can see the file I created just fine. Is there something that I'm missing? How am I

Re: How much memory does ZFS use?

2011-08-21 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Aug 2011 11:38:27 -0700 Yuri wrote: Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as such. Is this true? I wonder if this might be a mix-up between virtual and physical memory. It's use of address space can be prohibitive on i386.

How much memory does ZFS use?

2011-08-20 Thread Yuri
Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as such. Is this true? How can I understand how much memory particular kernel module consumes? In Solaris there is mdb for that, what is an equivalent in FreeBSD? Yuri ___ freebsd

Re: How much memory does ZFS use?

2011-08-20 Thread Gary Gatten
for optimum performance. - Original Message - From: Yuri [mailto:y...@rawbw.com] Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 01:38 PM To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How much memory does ZFS use? Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided

Re: How much memory does ZFS use?

2011-08-20 Thread Yuri
and rates of file system ops, etc. 512MB may be fine, or you may need 4GB for optimum performance. I meant mostly, for the same type of FS access, how does ZFS memory consumption compare with situation if I used UFS? Also how can I see what memory consumption is for each kernel module? Yuri

Re: How much memory does ZFS use?

2011-08-20 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: Someone told me that ZFS is a memory hog and it should be avoided as such. Is this true? A rather ridiculous statement you were told and full of ignorance in my opinion. The 1908 Ford Model T got 25 MPG and my 2006 Mazda Speed6 gets

Re: How much disk space required for make release?

2011-08-17 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
running for a few hours, it died citing lack of disk space. The filesystem has approximately 80GB available. How much disk space is required when making a release? == Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmil...@verisign.com t: 703-948-4395 21345 Ridgetop Cir Dulles, VA 20166

How much disk space required for make release?

2011-08-16 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
Hello all, I am attempting to 'make release' 8.2-RELEASE. After running for a few hours, it died citing lack of disk space. The filesystem has approximately 80GB available. How much disk space is required when making a release? == Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmil...@verisign.com

RE: How much disk space required for make release?

2011-08-16 Thread Devin Teske
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Miller, Vincent (Rick) Sent: Tuesday, August 16, 2011 11:39 AM To: FreeBSD Subject: How much disk space required for make release? Hello all, I am attempting

Re: How much disk space required for make release?

2011-08-16 Thread Julian H. Stacey
hours, it died citing lack of disk space. The filesystem has approximately 80GB available. How much disk space is required when making a release? A gig or 2 I recall, (each of src/ obj/ I recall is ~ 600M then there's a chroot, so same again, but a few gig should be sufficient

Re: How much disk space required for make release?

2011-08-16 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:38 PM, Miller, Vincent (Rick) vmil...@verisign.com wrote: Hello all, I am attempting to 'make release' 8.2-RELEASE.  After running for a few hours, it died citing lack of disk space. The filesystem has approximately 80GB available.  How much disk space is required

Re: How to get ip address automatically from different dhcp server

2011-08-14 Thread dave jones
Christopher, Thanks for your solution. It does help a lot, but there's one problem. For example, DHCP server is not started for some reason and my computer's ethernet cable is plugged. Once dhcp server started, I can't get the IP unless I unplug and then plug the ethernet cable. Do you know how

Re: How to get ip address automatically from different dhcp server

2011-08-12 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
, but there's one problem. For example, DHCP server is not started for some reason and my computer's ethernet cable is plugged. Once dhcp server started, I can't get the IP unless I unplug and then plug the ethernet cable. Do you know how to solve this issue? Thank you. Regards, Dave. Ok

How can I unblur emacs and firefox menu fonts.

2011-08-11 Thread akshay sreeramoju
Hi, My emacs and firefox, and maybe other apps, display is blurred? On emacs the content itself is clear, just the menu is blurred ( http://s1202.photobucket.com/albums/bb375/aksreera/?action=viewcurrent=emacs.jpg ). On firefox both content and menu are blurred (

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-11 Thread Al Plant
Aryeh Friedman wrote: I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config

Re: How to get ip address automatically from different dhcp server

2011-08-11 Thread dave jones
how to solve this issue? Thank you. Regards, Dave. On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:30 AM, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:49:42 +0800 dave jones s.dave.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I cat get an IP address from dhcp server by adding the line in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_em0=DHCP

How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config enabling dpms via the kernel

RE: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Gary Gatten
I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following: vidcontrol -S off disabling acpi and apmd from the kernel config enabling dpms via the kernel

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 10, 2011 a las 03:18:07PM -0500, Gary Gatten escribió: I have a kiosk system I am almost done building and the last snag is attempting to make it so idle time (no keyboard or mouse attached) does not blank the screen. I have already tried the following:

RE: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Gary Gatten
to the letter, maybe we'll stop trying to help - and if enough do that then what? I'm on one of those lists now where I'm one of the only ones that replies to peoples questions and tries to help. Guess what? NO ONE bitches at me (or anyone) for how we reply because they APPRECIATE the HELP

Re: How to turn off screen blanking

2011-08-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
with it? It doesn't take a rocket scientist to follow the thread! Google for outlook quotefix' to see how this could be fixed. And google for my name, if you want, to see that I'm providing help as well here. matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g

How to use gui

2011-08-09 Thread Sudhakar K
Sir, i'm new to freebsd 8.2, i downloaded full dvd iso. I installed once. But on gui. Can you please tell me how to install this release and use gui desktop. Now its only a dos like environment. Please help me. I'm new to freebsd. -- %-- *Sudhakar K* --% http://www.featuriz.com If you think, you

Re: How to use gui

2011-08-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Aug 9, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Sudhakar K wrote: i'm new to freebsd 8.2, i downloaded full dvd iso. I installed once. But on gui. Can you please tell me how to install this release and use gui desktop. Now its only a dos like environment. Please help me. I'm new to freebsd. Read the fine

Re: How to use gui

2011-08-09 Thread patricio retamales
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/x11.html 2011/8/9 Sudhakar K featu...@gmail.com Sir, i'm new to freebsd 8.2, i downloaded full dvd iso. I installed once. But on gui. Can you please tell me how to install this release and use gui desktop. Now its only a dos like

Re: How to use gui

2011-08-09 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Sudhakar K featu...@gmail.com wrote: Sir, i'm new to freebsd 8.2, i downloaded full dvd iso. I installed once. But on gui. Can you please tell me how to install this release and use gui desktop. Now its only a dos like environment. Please help me. I'm new

how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread Gary Kline
guys, how can i use find or whatever to find a file, say 6 levels deep that is = 9 days old? i'm looking fo something i had to jt down [[ASCII]]. can't remembr te file name, nor when i was when i had the idea flash into my mind sigh. thanks, gary -- Gary Kline kl

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread b. f.
how can i use find or whatever to find a file, say 6 levels deep that is = 9 days old? i'm looking fo something i had to jt down [[ASCII]]. can't remembr te file name, nor when i was when i had the idea flash into my mind Try something like: find / -type f -mtime -10d -mindepth 5

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread b. f.
On 7/28/11, b. f. bf1...@googlemail.com wrote: how can i use find or whatever to find a file, say 6 levels deep that is = 9 days old? i'm looking fo something i had to jt down [[ASCII]]. can't remembr te file name, nor when i was when i had the idea flash into my mind Try

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jul 28 02:03:19 2011 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:02:41 -0700 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old? guys, how can i use

Re: how do i find a file in all directories 7 to 9 days old?

2011-07-28 Thread Christian Barthel
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 10:10:43AM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Jul 28 02:03:19 2011 Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:02:41 -0700 From: Gary Kline kl...@thought.org To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Subject: how do i find

Re: How to get ip address automatically from different dhcp server

2011-07-27 Thread Edgar Rodolfo
2011/7/26, dave jones s.dave.jo...@gmail.com: Hi, I cat get an IP address from dhcp server by adding the line in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_em0=DHCP If I move my laptop to another place, I have to manually run dhclient em0 to get an IP. Otherwise, it won't get an IP automatically. My

Re: How to get ip address automatically from different dhcp server

2011-07-27 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 10:49:42 +0800 dave jones s.dave.jo...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I cat get an IP address from dhcp server by adding the line in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_em0=DHCP If I move my laptop to another place, I have to manually run dhclient em0 to get an IP. Otherwise, it won't

How to deny getting static ip address via pf ?

2011-07-26 Thread Yavuz Maşlak
Hello I use pf on freebsd as packet filter. I have a wireless area. The users get to the internet using automatic ip from the dhcp server. I wish to deny to assign a static ip address by manual. How can I do that with pf or ipfw or another thing? thanks

Re: How to deny getting static ip address via pf ?

2011-07-26 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 07/26/2011 12:44 PM, Yavuz Maşlak wrote: Hello I use pf on freebsd as packet filter. I have a wireless area. The users get to the internet using automatic ip from the dhcp server. I wish to deny to assign a static ip address by manual. How can I do that with pf or ipfw or another

Re: How to deny getting static ip address via pf ?

2011-07-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 26/07/2011 11:44, Yavuz Maşlak wrote: I use pf on freebsd as packet filter. I have a wireless area. The users get to the internet using automatic ip from the dhcp server. I wish to deny to assign a static ip address by manual. How can I do that with pf or ipfw or another thing

Re: How to deny getting static ip address via pf ?

2011-07-26 Thread Balázs Mátéffy
. How can I do that with pf or ipfw or another thing? Interesting problem. Do you control the DHCP server and is it running ISC dhcpd? If so, you can parse the dhcpd.leases file to find all of the addresses the DHCP server has allocated. Then you could create firewall rules that default

Re: How to deny getting static ip address via pf ?

2011-07-26 Thread Eric S Pulley
On Tue, July 26, 2011 9:01 am, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jul 26, 2011, at 3:44 AM, Yavuz Maşlak wrote: I use pf on freebsd as packet filter. I have a wireless area. The users get to the internet using automatic ip from the dhcp server. I wish to deny to assign a static ip address by manual.

How to get ip address automatically from different dhcp server

2011-07-26 Thread dave jones
Hi, I cat get an IP address from dhcp server by adding the line in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_em0=DHCP If I move my laptop to another place, I have to manually run dhclient em0 to get an IP. Otherwise, it won't get an IP automatically. My question is it's possible to get ip address automatically

Re: How to get ip address automatically from different dhcp server

2011-07-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 9:49 PM, dave jones s.dave.jo...@gmail.com wrote: I cat get an IP address from dhcp server by adding the line in /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_em0=DHCP If I move my laptop to another place, I have to manually run dhclient em0 to get an IP. Otherwise, it won't get an IP

baffled on how to get packages onto the disc image of a custom release

2011-07-25 Thread Aryeh Friedman
I have been banging my head for almost a day now about how to get make release (or make iso.1 or package-split) to populate releaase/R/cdrom/* (actually I only care about dvd1 for now) and am totally lost on how to go from having a valid package list (and split) in /usr/ports/package to having

How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

2011-07-22 Thread Unga
Hi all How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk? I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk. I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately available to other users to read. Best regards Unga ___ freebsd-questions

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

2011-07-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011 23:44:00 -0700 (PDT), Unga wrote: How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk? I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk. I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately available to other users to read. Maybe you can use system(/bin/sync

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

2011-07-22 Thread Alejandro Imass
or HTTP? if the latter they could be seeing a cached copy (proxy, browser, etc.). On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 2:44 AM, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk? I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk. I want my writing to a file (a log

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

2011-07-22 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk? I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk. I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately available to other users to read. It shouldn't matter

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

2011-07-22 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Jul 22 11, C. P. Ghost wrote: On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 8:44 AM, Unga unga...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi all How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk? I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk. I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately available

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD?

2011-07-22 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Friday, July 22, 2011 08:44:00 AM Unga wrote: How to sync a file on FreeBSD (esp. on 8.1) to disk? I used fsync(2), but does not immediately flush to disk. I want my writing to a file (a log file) immediately available to other users to read. A file doesn't need to be synced to disk

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD? [SOLVED]

2011-07-22 Thread Unga
--- On Fri, 7/22/11, Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl wrote: From: Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl Subject: Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 7:37 PM On Friday, July 22, 2011 08:44:00 AM Unga

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD? [SOLVED]

2011-07-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
, Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl wrote: From: Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl Subject: Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Unga unga...@yahoo.com Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 7:37 PM On Friday, July 22, 2011 08:44:00 AM Unga wrote: How to sync a file

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD? [SOLVED]

2011-07-22 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:37:48 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote: This is extremely important, esp. with Softupdates, since fsync() does not guarantee a flush of all buffers to the medium. But wouldn't sync() (see man 2 sync) make sure that all buffers, even in regards to soft updates, get

Re: How to sync a file on FreeBSD? [SOLVED]

2011-07-22 Thread Michael Sierchio
On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 7:42 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: But wouldn't sync() (see man 2 sync) make sure that all buffers, even in regards to soft updates, get immediately flushed / written? Apparently not. I think most of Matt Dillon's notes are still relevant.

Re: How to add sio to 8.2 ?

2011-07-21 Thread perryh
Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration? Or would this be fraught with all kinds of deep

Re: How to add sio to 8.2 ?

2011-07-21 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 21 Jul 2011, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration?

Re: How to fix bad superblock on UFS2?

2011-07-20 Thread Maxim Konovalov
Try to use tools/tools/find-sb to locate superblocks. -- Maxim Konovalov ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: How to fix bad superblock on UFS2?

2011-07-20 Thread DA Forsyth
On 20 Jul 2011 , Maxim Konovalov entreated about Re: How to fix bad superblock on UFS2?: Try to use tools/tools/find-sb to locate superblocks. Thankyou Maxim I may yet need to use that on another partition, but last night I achieved some success by hacking fsck_ffs to display what

Re: How to add sio to 8.2 ?

2011-07-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com writes: I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration? Or would this be fraught with all kinds of deep

How to add sio to 8.2 ?

2011-07-19 Thread Lars Eighner
I've come to the conclusion that I need sio to be able to use 8.x. Can it be as simple as just dropping the code from 7.x into the source for 8.x and adding a line to the kernel configuration? Or would this be fraught with all kinds of deep traps? -- Lars Eighner

Re: how to fix bad superblock

2011-07-19 Thread Tijl Coosemans
On Monday 18 July 2011 16:49:25 DA Forsyth wrote: After a hardrive let the smoke out last week, part of a 4 drive RAID array, I am now battling to get back into the array. I have replaced the bad drive and it has been rebuilt (Intel Matrix Raid on the motherboard). some partitions are ok

How to fix bad superblock on UFS2?

2011-07-19 Thread DA Forsyth
IN FIRST ALTERNATE it then asks if it must look for alternates but claims 32 is not one and stops. All my partitions are UFS2 so why doesn't it look at block 160, which 'newfs -N' finds correctly as the next superblock copy? So, how do I fix this? Also, why does fsck_ufs prompt to update

how to fix bad superblock

2011-07-18 Thread DA Forsyth
to the master superblock, and fsck still shows the message as above. I then copied the 2nd alternate to both the master and the 1nd alternate superblock positions, and it STILL reports a mismatch. Please tell me, how do I fix this. ar0s1f is discardable which is why I am trying to fix it first. /home

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-17 Thread Polytropon
. switched off), it's implicitely a reset - compare to pressing the RESET button which will keep the system powered on, but will perform a (very hard) reset. Allow me to point you to the following manpages: man shutdown man reboot man init A problem will be: How to power

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-17 Thread Daniel Feenberg
In the last episode (Jul 16), Aryeh Friedman said: Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? You haven't said what about an ordinary shutdown -r isn't satisfactory, but we have an iboot gizmo

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-17 Thread Ryan Coleman
I'd feel better about the company if they used English correctly and didn't have a bunch of HTML bombs. On Jul 17, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Daniel Feenberg wrote: In the last episode (Jul 16), Aryeh Friedman said: Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386

how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Aryeh Friedman
Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 2:40 AM, Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? ___ Sure! If I understand your question correctly, reboot yes,

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Robert Bonomi
From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Sat Jul 16 21:40:19 2011 Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:40:19 -0400 From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to force a hard reboot remotely Is there any way to force a complete

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Ryan Coleman
-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to force a hard reboot remotely Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? Powerdown: 'man shutdown' see the -p option. Hardware dependant. Reset after powerdown: Hardware dependant

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Bill Tillman
From: Aryeh Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Sat, July 16, 2011 10:40:19 PM Subject: how to force a hard reboot remotely Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Ryan Coleman
When bottom replying, please clear the header and signature - thanks. You can set up a BIOS boot time, if you can get onsite... that would allow you to power it down at, say, 11:59PM and have it power back on at Midnight. Or a UPS that's controlled by another machine. Or the magic packet WOL

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 16), Aryeh Friedman said: Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? If you have a server motherboard with IPMI (or a high-end server with a service processor module), you can use that to power cycle the

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Joshua Isom
On 7/16/2011 9:40 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Jul 16, 2011, at 11:01 PM, Joshua Isom wrote: On 7/16/2011 9:40 PM, Aryeh Friedman wrote: Is there any way to force a complete power down and then reset of a i386 without physically being present? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely

2011-07-16 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 10:39:06PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2011 22:39:06 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman edi...@d3photography.com Subject: Re: how to force a hard reboot remotely To: Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailer: Apple Mail

Re: How to connect a projector to a FreeBSD laptop?

2011-06-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
: Could somebody please highlight to me how to successfully connect a projector and what configurations needs to be done? You did correctly connect the projector before starting the machine. On most laptops you'll find a CRT/LCD key (usually among the PF keys on top) you need to press

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 17 Jun 2011 22:31:00 -0700, Gary Kline wrote: right. i booted into single-user and fsck still gave me the NO WRITE response; then i did a # shutdown now to get a # prompt in single-user and got the same NO WRITE. Only it did fix the errors. dunno...

How to repair networking

2011-06-20 Thread doug
I was running 8.2 stable and kde3.5. Originally I want to install chrome. I trying to update the many interlocking components I eventually got to the point where I thought I would just start again so I removed all ports. At this point I lost networking, neither DHCP or manually configuring an

Re: How to repair networking

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:00:13 -0400 (EDT), doug wrote: I was running 8.2 stable and kde3.5. Originally I want to install chrome. I trying to update the many interlocking components I eventually got to the point where I thought I would just start again so I removed all ports. At this point

How to connect a projector to a FreeBSD laptop?

2011-06-20 Thread Unga
Hi all I have a laptop running FreeBSD 8.1 with X server 1.7.5. I need to connect a projector to this laptop to show a presentation. After connect the projector to the laptop, I had rebooted the laptop, the projector's screen just blink only. Could somebody please highlight to me how

Re: How to connect a projector to a FreeBSD laptop?

2011-06-20 Thread Polytropon
blink only. Could somebody please highlight to me how to successfully connect a projector and what configurations needs to be done? You did correctly connect the projector before starting the machine. On most laptops you'll find a CRT/LCD key (usually among the PF keys on top) you need to press

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