Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread DA Forsyth
> I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: > http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board was an ASUS P3 1.1GHz, which now hosts my backup server. Both ran

Re: What's wrong with this picture?

2009-06-08 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Saturday 06 June 2009 05:43:15 Charlie Kester wrote: > On Fri 05 Jun 2009 at 15:06:40 PDT Paul Chvostek wrote: > >If you elect to filter this person's traffic, and are concerned that > >you'll continue to be inundated with replies, I'd like to suggest a > >small procmail script I wrote years ago

Re: IBM TSM server

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
isn;t it trying to read past the end of disk? Hmm.. I guess you are correct. The question is why is it doing this ? because partition/slice table is wrong? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: usb device not recognised

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled and, later: ... GEOM_LABEL: Label ufsid/4a259f5253bef8ae removed. uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: port 2 reset failed uhub2: por

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
the onboard SATA sockets so I could increase our available disk space (4x500GB in RAID5 for data). However, a nice benefit is that the Core2 will compile world in 1/4 the time, and user don't notice the server is 'busy'. Core2 is actually only a bit faster per clock cycle than PIII, but you ha

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, DA Forsyth wrote: > > I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: > > http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ > > Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server > to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board > was a

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM, DA Forsyth wrote: > > I think my file/print/mail server is a bit overkill: > > http://w3.mutehq.net:8008/sysinfo/ > > Nice, esp when you compile world. Last year I upgraded our server > to a Core 2 Duo 1.8Ghz, Intel DG965 board. 2GB RAM. Previous board > was a

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-08 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 5 Jun 2009, Brooks Davis wrote: > On Sat, Jun 06, 2009 at 01:25:09AM +1000, Ian Smith wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 15:07:53 +0300 Ghirai wrote: > > > Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets > > > (http://www.phidgets.com? > > > > > > Someone seems to have attempted (

Re: IBM TSM server

2009-06-08 Thread claudiu vasadi
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Wojciech Puchar < woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > > the type fdisk /dev/da1 and then compare the sectors values with what dmesg > says > > fdisk /dev/ad2 : *** Working on device /dev/ad2 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinder

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Carmel
On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:13:30 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: [snip] >The nv can easily be installed along with Xorg. The nvidia driver is >more complex as it relies on the linuxolator to function, so there is >a larger number of dependencies. But when it comes time to change from >nv to nvidia it is

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 19:46:29 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: >On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 11:50:35PM -0400, itsemu wrote: >> if your dealing with a isp such as a cable/dsl company, remember the >> requirements to work there, they arent trained on anything besides >> windows.. probably dont really know what a

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 08 June 2009, Michael Powell wrote: > As to which of the ports you need - the regular nvidia-driver and not > either of the 'legacy' versions should probably be used I found that I had to use the legacy nvidia-driver-96 port to get my GeForce 6150 to function, as described in my post a

Re: Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-08 Thread Mister Olli
hi, > yes, you are mis-understanding > > samba itself is a NT4-type domain. not quite right. It depends on the samba version your using. - samba3 only provides NT4-type domains - samba4 provides active directory domain types including GPO (I have such a setup running in 7. with around 10 users. I

SAN FreeBSD Server

2009-06-08 Thread Friedrich Locke
Dear gentleman, i would like to configure a FreeBSD installation as storage server solution. Iwould like to use iSCSI. Is it possible to configure a server running FreeBSD as a iSCSI server (i.e., i mean as a target)? Thanks a lot for your time and cooperation. Best regards, FL. ___

Re: SAN FreeBSD Server

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
solution. Iwould like to use iSCSI. Is it possible to configure a server running FreeBSD as a iSCSI server (i.e., i mean as a target)? /usr/ports/net/iscsi-target ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread RW
On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 02:26:34 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: > To install the nvidia-driver port a kernel module named nvidia.ko is > compiled. This module requires linux.ko to be loaded first. The > reason is the nvidia-driver itself is a linux binary blob, and > consequently must utilize the linu

Re: SAN FreeBSD Server

2009-06-08 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 8/6/09 12:10, Friedrich Locke wrote: > Dear gentleman, > > i would like to configure a FreeBSD installation as storage server > solution. Iwould like to use iSCSI. > Is it possible to configure a server running FreeBSD as a iSCSI server > (i.e., i mean as a target)? > Indeed it is, although

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 262, Issue 2

2009-06-08 Thread DA Forsyth
> Message: 22 > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 08:10:50 -0300 > From: Friedrich Locke > Subject: SAN FreeBSD Server > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > Dear gentleman, > > i would like to configure a FreeBSD installation as storage

Re: SAN FreeBSD Server

2009-06-08 Thread beni
Hi, Maybe FreeNAS is something ? From http://www.freenas.org/ : FreeNAS is a free NAS (Network-Attached Storage) server, supporting: CIFS (samba), FTP, NFS, AFP, RSYNC, iSCSI protocols, S.M.A.R.T., local user authentication, Software RAID (0,1,5) with a Full WEB configuration interface. And also :

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread DA Forsyth
On 8 Jun 2009 , freebsd-questions-requ...@freebsd.org entreated about "freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 262, Issue 2": > Message: 13 > Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 09:18:09 +0200 (CEST) > From: Wojciech Puchar > > SO, to the original question, yes that motherboard will work just > > fine. What are you

RE: Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-08 Thread Mister Olli
Hi, I used the following procedure to install samba4 on a freebsd box: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba4/HOWTO in my current setup (which is about 4 months old) the following this do not work: - active directory groups did somehow not work as expected, but I didn't had the time to look deepe

Re: Samba3 domain controller howto?

2009-06-08 Thread Mister Olli
hi, > Where did you get samba4? How did you download? > How did you compile on FreeBSD? You can share your ./configure args? have a look into the mail I just posted on freebsd-questions, it includes links to the samba wiki where installation is explained in detail. > And your smb.conf and loop

Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Jos Chrispijn
I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script to be executed is no option. Thanks, Jos __

Re: Assign IP address and hostname via kernel parameter

2009-06-08 Thread Mister Olli
Hi, thanks for the hint, this brought me to a (IMHO) good way to accomplish this. When using FreeBSD as domU and configuring the kernel in the domU config file (rather than using pygrub) it's possible to append kernel parameters, by defining them in the variable 'extras' within the domU config fi

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 7:55 AM, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my > crontab. > Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month > day is the last day of the month? If it really needs to be done on the last day

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Steve Bertrand
Jos Chrispijn wrote: > I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my > crontab. > Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which > month day is the last day of the month? > Solving this in the script to be executed is no option. I've done this before.

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
put 12 lines, for each month and with the last day. On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Jos Chrispijn wrote: I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this

Re: Opinion request about a file server

2009-06-08 Thread Gabriel Lavoie
If you want to use gmirror + gjournal on the root filesystem (/), be sure to use FreeBSD 7.2. A bug prevented the system to boot on unclean shutdown because the replay of the journal took too much time and FreeBSD wanted to mount non-existant (yet) devices. It caused me a lot of trouble when I inst

Re: rsync colon in filename to MSWin fails

2009-06-08 Thread davetbo
Here's a good workaround. This works for me from Linux to Win32. In your rsync script, before the rsync, do either find ./ -name '*:*' | xargs tar -czvf colon_files.tgz or (if you're doing the whole box as an rsync backup, like I am) do updatedb locate : | xargs tar -czvf colon_files.tgz M

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Paul Chvostek
Hi Jos, On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 02:55:56PM +0200, Jos Chrispijn wrote: > > I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my > crontab. > Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know which > month day is the last day of the month? > Solving this in the scri

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Peter Andreev
may be this solution will help you: * * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec * * * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov * * * 28 feb * or: * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * 2009/6/8 Jos Chrispijn > I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my > crontab. > Can someone tell me how I should

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Carmel
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:15:16 +0100 Mike Clarke wrote: >On Monday 08 June 2009, Michael Powell wrote: > >> As to which of the ports you need - the regular nvidia-driver and not >> either of the 'legacy' versions should probably be used > >I found that I had to use the legacy nvidia-driver-96 port t

mkntfs

2009-06-08 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
Hi all. I'm trying to format an USB key with mkntfs (I tried with 1.13.1_5 and 2.0.0). Whatever I do, it never works. Some of results I got: (with 2.0.0) ~# mkntfs -F -p 63 -H 255 -S 63 /dev/da0s1 /dev/da0s1 is not a block device. mkntfs forced anyway. Cluster size has been automatically set to

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: > may be this solution will help you: > > * * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec * > * * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov * > * * 28 feb * > > or: > > * * 31 1/2 * > * * 30 4/2 * > * * 28 2 * Don't forget leapyear. jerry > > 2009/6/8 Jos Chr

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 08 June 2009, Carmel wrote: > One last question; if I install the AMD 64 bit version of FBSD, will > the NV driver work? I know that the regular one won't since it > doesn't support 64 bit systems. I'm using i386 so have no direct experience of this but package versions of the xf86-vid

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Jason Helfman
I am not exactly sure which driver I am using between these two, however I have found that setting up the driver and display are great with these packages installed. I guess I would be using the most recent :) nvidia-driver-173.14.12 nvidia-driver-71.86.06 nvidia-settings-173.14.09 nvidia-xconfig

NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry
Unless I am missing it, I do not see any mention of "NO_PROFILE" listed in the examples "make.conf" file. Has it been depreciated? -- Jerry ges...@yahoo.com Serving coffee on an aircraft causes turbulence. signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Tim Judd
If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now src.conf = world, make.conf = ports Was a new feature in 7.0, IIRC On 6/8/09, Jerry wrote: > Unless I am missing it, I do not see any mention of "NO_PROFILE

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 06:31:57PM +0400, Peter Andreev wrote: may be this solution will help you: * * 31 jan,mar,may,jul,aug,oct,dec * * * 30 apr,jun,sep,nov * * * 28 feb * or: * * 31 1/2 * * * 30 4/2 * * * 28 2 * Don't forget leapyear. 0 0 1

Re: growing a graid3 array and growfs not growing ....

2009-06-08 Thread Tim Judd
Sorry to revive an old thread.. I am working with raid3 vs raid5 at home to understand the difference better. And this might help the OP. RAID3 has a dedicated parity drive, and the number of consumers must be (2^n)+1 (2^1)+1 = 3 (2^2)+1 = 5 (2^3)+1 = 9 RAID5 is a distributed parity, an

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:59:30 -0600 Tim Judd wrote: >If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should >be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now >src.conf = world, make.conf = ports Please don't top post. It makes following a thread a lot harder than

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
RW wrote: [snip] > > Simple, but wrong. > > The driver is not a Linux driver, if you go to the nVidia site you will > see that there are separate Linux and FreeBSD drivers. You don't need > to load linux.ko at all if you built nvidia.ko without Linux support. > [snip] Aha! You're right! Someth

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Chuck Robey
Lars Eighner wrote: > > What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose > make is > being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why > make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with > implicit C > rules, while -- it seems to me -- mak

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
Carmel wrote: > On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 20:13:30 -0400 > Michael Powell wrote: > > [snip] > >>The nv can easily be installed along with Xorg. The nvidia driver is >>more complex as it relies on the linuxolator to function, so there is >>a larger number of dependencies. But when it comes time to cha

What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread ericr
Hi, I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had good luck with them? It seems h

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Mon, 08 Jun 2009 14:55:56 +0200, >> Jos Chrispijn said: J> I would like to execute a script on every last day of the month in my J> crontab. Can someone tell me how I should solve that as it doesn't know J> which month day is the last day of the month? Solving this in the script J> to be

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
ericr wrote: > I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from > someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, > which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. We use Dell almost exclusively. Although Dell doesn't officially support FreeBSD, Dell hardwa

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread LoH
Michael Powell wrote: Section "Device" #Driver "nv" Driver "nvidia" Just change "nv" to "nvidia", and perhaps in Section "Module" Load "glx" if you need to. Also notice what RW said; I am behind the times wrt to how things have changed. -Mike What I have fo

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Found another solution (for running @ 23:58): 58 23 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /myscript thanks for all other suggestions, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Which nVidea driver to install

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
LoH wrote: [snip] > What I have found to work is to make the nvidia-driver port, but not > install it (to get the dependencies). Then I would download the recent > driver from nVidia's website (as of this email, 185.18.14), untar it and > install that instead. If nvidia-xconfig doesn't work immedi

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread Tim Judd
And I say you get what you pay for. My organization uses Dell exclusively and it's been a thorn in my side from day one. The AC power requirements (it seems) for Dells are about 3x as much as Gateways (I know, Gateway doesn't provide servers). The power draw for the Dells don't seem to be any be

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Michael Powell
Jerry wrote: > On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 10:59:30 -0600 > Tim Judd wrote: > >>If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should >>be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now >>src.conf = world, make.conf = ports > > Please don't top post. It makes following

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 12:43:23PM -0400, Jerry wrote: > Unless I am missing it, I do not see any mention of "NO_PROFILE" listed > in the examples "make.conf" file. Has it been depreciated? It has been moved to src.conf as WITHOUT_PROFILE. See src.conf(5). Roland -- R.F.Smith

Fwd: rsync colon in filename to MSWin fails

2009-06-08 Thread Kurt Buff
Dagnabbit! Meant to also send this to the list. Kurt On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 10:28, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Fri, 19 Sep 2008 13:37:50 +0100, Anton Shterenlikht > wrote: >> I cannot trasfer a file with a colon via rsync to a Win box. >> I've rsync-3.0.4 on the FBSD (sending side) and rsync

7.2-STABLE and iSCSI

2009-06-08 Thread FRLinux
Hello, I am currently using a 7.2-STABLE with iSCSI enabled in the kernel. I have tried to enable a file system which is 2.4TB in size (this is on an amd64 architecture). I have followed different documentations I found and can export an iSCSI target fine and initiate the iSCSI drive either on a L

port for separation audio from video in mp4 file

2009-06-08 Thread Stefan Miklosovic
hi, title says it, i downloaded mp4 file by youtube-dl, but it downloaded video and audio as well. I would like to separate audio from that file. i try to find some port in /usr/ports/audio but nothing reasonable occudred. i tried "find . -type f -name pkg-descr | xargs grep mp4" but these were

Re: port for separation audio from video in mp4 file

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 21:05:20 +0200, Stefan Miklosovic wrote: > title says it, i downloaded mp4 file by youtube-dl, > but it downloaded video and audio as well. I would > like to separate audio from that file. Maybe mplayer can do that for you. It has options -dumpvideo and -dumpaudio. As you know

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 11:56:35AM -0600, ericr wrote: > Hi, > > I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from > someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, > which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. Our group has a lot of Dells from Powered

Re: mkntfs

2009-06-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:29:28PM +0200, Samuel Martín Moro wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm trying to format an USB key with mkntfs (I tried with 1.13.1_5 and > 2.0.0). > Whatever I do, it never works. > > Some of results I got: > > (with 2.0.0) > ~# mkntfs -F -p 63 -H 255 -S 63 /dev/da0s1 > /dev/da0s

Re: port for separation audio from video in mp4 file

2009-06-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Maybe mplayer can do that for you. It has options -dumpvideo and -dumpaudio. As you know, mplayer / mencoder can do everything that you can imagine. :-) -dumpaudio -vc dummy will dump audio and skip video decoding at all ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > > What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is > being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why > make exists, but many tutorials plunge right into C examples with implicit C >

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread John Almberg
Hi, I need to buy some new servers, and mgmt has decreed that we get them from someplace which will provide service contracts with on-site h/w suppport, which means HP, Dell, Sun, IBM, etc. I have two Intel servers that I like a lot. I don't have on-site support, but it might be availabl

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-08 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 04:45:43AM -0400, Jerry wrote: > > I have used GoDaddy for 7 years now without a single problem. Maybe I > am just lucky. I have only contacted them twice; however, I received > a quick and courteous response to my inquiry. I try to learn from others' mistakes to reduce th

Re: tcllib error while installing tcllib on amd64 system running freebsd 7.0

2009-06-08 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Dino Vliet writes: > [*   ]  [8.6b1] comm    !Connect to remote failed: couldn't > open socket: connection timed out  Taking a look in the comm.test file, it looks to me like you already had something on port 12345, so an attempt to open such a port failed. -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/net

Re: General and specific make questions

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 22:12:17 +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM -0500, Lars Eighner wrote: > > > > What I need most is to find (a) make tutorial(s) that do not suppose make is > > being used for compling c/c++ programs. Yes, I know, that is mostly why > > make exists,

Re: ISP questions

2009-06-08 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 14:55:49 -0600 Chad Perrin wrote: >I try to learn from others' mistakes to reduce the likelihood that I >will be forced to learn from my own. If you really want to learn from >your own mistakes, though, go ahead and ignore the instances where >GoDaddy has screwed over other cu

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread LoH
Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for r

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:17:29 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research > articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, > keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) > downloaded onto my local drive.

PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Daniel Underwood
I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) downloaded onto my local drive. In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Daniel Underwood
Poly and LoH: Thanks, these are great ideas! ___ 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: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:17:29PM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research > articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, > keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) > downloaded onto my local dr

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Bill Moran
Daniel Underwood wrote: > > I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research > articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, > keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) > downloaded onto my local drive. > > In the course of reading lit

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:45:38 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Poly and LoH: Thanks, these are great ideas! I'd like to add that if you define your data fields well, you can use it to generate BibTeX and other LaTeX entries from your records. You can even easily turn it into HTML. But as I said:

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread FRLinux
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:17 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research > articles.  Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, > keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) > downloaded onto my local drive. Hel

Re: Cronjob

2009-06-08 Thread Mike Jeays
-- Mike Jeays http://www.jeays.ca http://www.rotarycpmm.ca On June 8, 2009 02:56:31 pm Jos Chrispijn wrote: > Found another solution (for running @ 23:58): > > 58 23 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /myscript > > thanks for all other suggestions, > Jos Chrispijn > > _

Re: /etc/hosts - how does that file work?? - was weird nfs issues.

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 06 June 2009 20:44:38 Tim Judd wrote: > On 6/4/09, Peter wrote: > > I do not think /etc/hosts does round robin, I always assumed first match > > wins...DNS/bind I would understand... It's the same library call: gethostbyname(3) and friends. > > Why does ping always return the 172.20.

Re: phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 07 June 2009 23:49:48 Ian Smith wrote: > Thanks, but please humour my ignorance - would one install linux libusb > in /compat/linux for linux apps, as well as the freebsd port for native? If there's source, one would use native libusb. I'd go test with -current though. The libusb in th

getting aux display on laptop to be the only display

2009-06-08 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I have following hardware on my laptop: > dmesg|grep vga vgapci0: port 0x6110-0x6117 mem 0x9000-0x903f,0x8000-0x8fff irq 16 at device 2.0 on pci0 agp0: on vgapci0 vgapci1: mem 0x9450-0x945f at device 2.1 on pci0 vga0: at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa-0xb on is

flaw found....

2009-06-08 Thread Gary Kline
not surprisingly, i found a fla w in my getc(fp) program that tried to read past "" ... the example i added to my test file was simply the 2 bytes "<" and "?". so if you have a stray "http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.th

Re: flaw found....

2009-06-08 Thread Glen Barber
Gary, On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Gary Kline wrote: >        not surprisingly, i found a fla w in my getc(fp) program that >        tried to read past "" ...  the example i added to my >        test file was simply the 2 bytes "<" and "?".  so if you have a >        stray > >        " >      

Re: Lighttpd wedged and ignoring SIGKILL

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 18:25:30 L Campbell wrote: > PID USERNAME THR PRI NICE SIZERES STATE C TIME WCPU COMMAND > 85542 www1 510 102M 85360K CPU6 6 16:34 100.00% lighttpd > > 1) Should this be possible? What is going on here? Change the write-backend. Look in go

Re: 7.2-RELEASE panics with snd_ds1 loaded.

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 04 June 2009 21:14:14 Ashish SHUKLA wrote: > Hi all, > > I've recently installed 7.2-RELEASE few weeks ago and noticed that it > panics after few minutes of loading snd_ds1 (driver for Yamaha PCI sound > card), and playing music on it. I've not added snd_ds1 to my loader.conf > so as so

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > I'm looking for a way to manage my personal collection of research > articles. Ideally I'd like some way to keep records on authors, > keywords, journals, and publication years of articles (PDF files) > downloaded onto my local drive. Certainly overkill, but dspace(.org) can keep up a digi

Re: Lighttpd wedged and ignoring SIGKILL

2009-06-08 Thread L Campbell
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:34 PM, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Thursday 04 June 2009 18:25:30 L Campbell wrote: >> PID   USERNAME THR PRI NICE   SIZE    RES STATE  C   TIME   WCPU COMMAND >> 85542 www        1  51    0   102M 85360K CPU6   6  16:34 100.00% lighttpd >> >> 1) Should this be possible? What is

Re: flaw found....

2009-06-08 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 08:20:22PM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: > Gary, > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > >        not surprisingly, i found a fla w in my getc(fp) program that > >        tried to read past "" ...  the example i added to my > >        test file was simply the 2

Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes

2009-06-08 Thread Kelly Jones
What UFS-like filesystem has unlimited inodes, but is a drop-in replacement for ext3, and is fairly easy to configure? Is UFS2 no longer considered the "best" general-use filesystem? Reason I ask: I'm going to create many small (~1K) files on a 100G disk and thus need at least 100M inodes. "newf

Re: NO_PROFILE option in FBSD-7.2

2009-06-08 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Jun 8, 2009, at 11:59 AM, Tim Judd wrote: If that's related to 'world', all world-related build options should be placed in src.conf now. What make.conf was to world+ports, is now src.conf = world, make.conf = ports What is the appropriate location for KERNCONF, which I still have in / et

Re: getting aux display on laptop to be the only display

2009-06-08 Thread Tim Judd
Laptop VGA cards are only two types: independently driven, or mirrored. The former is what allows the internal and external to display different things simultaneously. The latter is a 1:1 mirror image on one and other. All laptops I've seen when the external VGA is enabled are mirrored. Via VGA

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 17:17:29 -0400, >> Daniel Underwood said: D> In the course of reading literature for research, it often happens that I D> find myself wanted to return to something I have previously read, but I D> only recall a few "things" about the article, often the author and a D> keywo

Re: What server hardware are you buying from the big companies these days?

2009-06-08 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Mon, 8 Jun 2009 11:56:35 -0600, >> ericr said: E> Has anyone bought servers from one of the big manufacturers lately and had E> good luck with them? I've always had good luck with Dell, especially the GX-260s. I've used them for file-servers handling over 100 Samba connections at a

Re: getting aux display on laptop to be the only display

2009-06-08 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Tim Judd wrote: Laptop VGA cards are only two types: independently driven, or mirrored. The former is what allows the internal and external to display different things simultaneously. The latter is a 1:1 mirror image on one and other. All laptops I've seen when the external VGA is enabled are

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Daniel Underwood
Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I simply use some command like grep to search for text within the collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from within PDFs? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: What is the equivalent of Linux command 'ps --forest'?

2009-06-08 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 05 June 2009 09:12:08 Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 6/5/09, Yuri wrote: > > How can I see processes in a hierarchical way? > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2009-May/006912.html > > or pstree from ports. And if in a jail, you can use the patch below to add jail support via

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Olivier Nicole
> Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I > simply use some command like grep to search for text within the > collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from > within PDFs? pdftotext, comes with the port xpdf I think Olivier ___

Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command

2009-06-08 Thread Daniel Underwood
OK, this is perhaps a weird question, capable of being very confusing. So let's take a "for instance". Suppose I run something like the Linux command "fdupes" on a directory with many large files. This operation will take considerable time to complete. When it completes, a lot of output is send

Re: Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command

2009-06-08 Thread Lord Of Hyphens
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > OK, this is perhaps a weird question, capable of being very confusing. > So let's take a "for instance". > > Suppose I run something like the Linux command "fdupes" on a directory > with many large files. This operation will take conside

Re: PDF inventory software

2009-06-08 Thread Lord Of Hyphens
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Olivier Nicole wrote: > > Since all the PDFs contain text (none are scanned "images"), can I > > simply use some command like grep to search for text within the > > collection? If so, how would I do this? Can grep read text from > > within PDFs? > > pdftotext, c

Re: Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command

2009-06-08 Thread Steven Schlansker
On Jun 8, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Lord Of Hyphens wrote: On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Daniel Underwood >wrote: $ fdupes -r ~/directorywithlotsoflargefiles (.lots of output, woops, should have sent to a text file!) $ output[1] >> ~/textfile.txt Hopefully this has made (some) sense.

Re: Need a filesystem with "unlimited" inodes

2009-06-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 08), Kelly Jones said: > What UFS-like filesystem has unlimited inodes, but is a drop-in > replacement for ext3, and is fairly easy to configure? > > Is UFS2 no longer considered the "best" general-use filesystem? > > Reason I ask: I'm going to create many small (~1K) fil

Re: Reproduce previous stdout output without running previous command

2009-06-08 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jun 08), Steven Schlansker said: > On Jun 8, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Lord Of Hyphens wrote: > > On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:44 PM, Daniel Underwood > >wrote: > >> > >> $ fdupes -r ~/directorywithlotsoflargefiles > >> > >> (.lots of output, woops, should have sent to a text file!..

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