Slow DNS (and host: connection timed out)

2009-02-05 Thread David Naylor
Hi, My ISP is using a WinGate DNS but resolving host names often takes a long time. The problem is also present in Konqueror (3 & 4) and Firefox. An example: # time host google.co.za google.co.za has address 66.249.93.104 google.co.za has address 72.14.207.104 google.co.za has address 64.233.

Flash9 and FreeBSD7.0 isssue

2009-02-05 Thread dhaneshk k
Hi list, I followed http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html To enable flash9 support for FreeBSD7.0 I installed FreeBSD7.0 with Linux compatibility so the first step (1.3 ) I skipped second step I followed and installed latestfirefox-devel then I installed nsplugi

xine-remote crashes xine

2009-02-05 Thread Da Rock
OK. Xine works (plays, etc), I can connect with xine-remote (from another m/c) and identify. However, if I send the 'mrl play ' xine crashes and I get the following error: cannot read request from client (0/2112/Resource temporarily unavailable) could not handle external client request xiTK receiv

Re: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0"

2009-02-05 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 08:53 +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: > I'm using the radeonhd driver and am getting the message also. > > Video card is the ati mobility radeon x1600. > > > On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:48:40PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > > > Da Rock writes: > > > > > > X is working fine h

Re: problem mounting dvd ISO

2009-02-05 Thread cguan
yes, I did. # kldstat -v | grep udf 42 0xc44bd000 7000 udf.ko 419 udf 51 0xc4498000 2000 udf_iconv.ko 423 udf_iconv # mount -t udf /dev/md0 ../iso_mount/w2k8-amd64 mount_udf: /dev/md0: Invalid argument # Is it possible the udf version is too new

having trouble with OpenOffice

2009-02-05 Thread af300wsm
Hi, Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but seems to be related to the X server (from searches on the net). So, I do this: [a...@sniper /usr/home/andy]$ /usr/local/bin/openoffice

Re: problem mounting dvd ISO

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Powell
cguan wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to mount a w2k8 dvd iso image on freebsd 7 using mdconfig and > mount -t cd9660. the commands appeared to be working fine but when I look > at the mount point I only see a readme.txt file reads: > > "This disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an oper

RTL8201 not explicitly in 7.1 supported hardware

2009-02-05 Thread Len Conrad
A client wants to buy some TigerDirect/VisionMan 1U's with this mobo: http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=P4M900%20MICRO%20775 RTL8201 PHY Ethernet http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/hardware.html ... shows only RTL81xx has anybody got RTL8201 working with FreeBSD 7.1, 7.0? than

Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> I use freebsd7.0 >> I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap. >> my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte >> swap, I saw that run out of memory when I see with top command. >> Why doesn't the machine use swap prope

Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:33:40 +0200 "Yavuz" wrote: > I use freebsd7.0 > I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap. > my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 > Gbyte swap, I saw that run out of memory when I see with top command. > Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ? I'm

problem rsycing with remote dir

2009-02-05 Thread David Karapetyan
Hello everyone. I am using the --backup flag in rsync to save incremental changes that rsync makes when I sync a directory on my laptop with my remote server. Please look at my pastebin code: http://pastebin.com/m16a3ce38On The problem is that I end up generating an r...@davidkarapetyan.homeuni

RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Ideally, stats, subscribe, unsubscribe, and let the person in charge have the ability to be able to select the recipients for a particular letter based on a field or combination of two fields. i.e. send to all contacts that are "doctors" or send to all contacts that are "doctors" and are in the

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-05 Thread Paul Procacci
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jaime wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:35 AM, t-u-t wrote: if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any said function like cp, mv, rm, etc.. , to all other files except that one or two, is there a way to do that in

problem mounting dvd ISO

2009-02-05 Thread cguan
Hi, I'm trying to mount a w2k8 dvd iso image on freebsd 7 using mdconfig and mount -t cd9660. the commands appeared to be working fine but when I look at the mount point I only see a readme.txt file reads: "This disc contains a "UDF" file system and requires an operating system that supports the

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jaime wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:35 AM, t-u-t wrote: if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any said function like cp, mv, rm, etc.. , to all other files except that one or two, is there a way to do that in a single command? e.g rm -

RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
The learning curve? That entirely depends on how comfortble you are with configuring applications on Unix/Linux servers in general. If you've never set up a web server, then it will take you some time to get things nailed down correctly. If you merely have not installed Apache before, as oppo

Re: Multiple MAC on a single (physical) interface

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Frédéric Perrin wrote: Hello, I live in a network where it is pretty much assumed that one machine == one MAC address == one IP address. Therefore, in order to play with jails, some having of course access to the network, I need to be able to send and receive using several MAC addresses, as if I

problem with date, dump or restore

2009-02-05 Thread Ivan Dimitrov
Hi list, with freebsd 7.0, after a probably successful dump : #dump -0Lauf ./ad0s1f.dump /dev/ad0s1f DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Feb 5 07:18:58 2009 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/ad0s1f (/usr) to ./ad0s1f.dump DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [re

Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I use freebsd7.0 I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap. my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte swap, I saw that run out of memory when I see with top command. Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ? it does What do I have to do ? nothing __

usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread Yavuz
I use freebsd7.0 I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap. my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte swap, I saw that run out of memory when I see with top command. Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ? What do I have to do ? ___

Re: Generating packages from ports without docs

2009-02-05 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matias Surdi wrote: > Hi, > > When I build a package with "make package" for a port, the resulting > package contains also the docs (which upon installatin are located in > /usr/local/share/doc/[package] > > > Which is the best way to not include th

Re: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:55:17PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > > _- > Well the server I plan to run it a VPS server, so I REALLY DON'T know what > the specs are on the box- and since it's not dedicated I have no clue what > e

Re: Shrink a Slice? FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:19:13PM -0800, perikillo wrote: >Hi people. >I have been googling without any good info about: How to shrink a slice? > >Case: I installed a new server for mysql, is working, I already install > all the ports I need, them I spend a lot of hours yesterday wit

RE: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 04 February 2009 21:55 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : > Graeme Dargie a écrit : >> If you do a dmesg are you also showing a watchdog tim

RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
-Original Message- From: Geoff Fritz [mailto:gfr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:26 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsletter APP NOT listserve On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:31:56AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Can anyone recommend a n

Shrink a Slice? FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread perikillo
Hi people. I have been googling without any good info about: How to shrink a slice? Case: I installed a new server for mysql, is working, I already install all the ports I need, them I spend a lot of hours yesterday with this baby, now this is my current disk layout: /dev/ad0s1a on / (uf

Generating packages from ports without docs

2009-02-05 Thread Matias Surdi
Hi, When I build a package with "make package" for a port, the resulting package contains also the docs (which upon installatin are located in /usr/local/share/doc/[package] Which is the best way to not include those files in the generated package? Thanks a lot. __

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 2/5/09, Lars Lonne wrote: > 2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol : >> On 2/5/09, Lars Lonne wrote: >>> 2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol : On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne wrote: > Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo > laptop. It used to dualboot with windows xp and gentoo linux,

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 2/5/09, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 2/5/09, Lars Lonne wrote: >> 2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol : >>> On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne wrote: Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo laptop. It used to dualboot with windows xp and gentoo linux, but I decided to give Fr

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Lars Lonne
2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol : > On 2/5/09, Lars Lonne wrote: >> 2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol : >>> On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne wrote: Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo laptop. It used to dualboot with windows xp and gentoo linux, but I decided to give FreeBSD a

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 2/5/09, Lars Lonne wrote: > 2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol : >> On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne wrote: >>> Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo >>> laptop. It used to dualboot with windows xp and gentoo linux, but I >>> decided to give FreeBSD a try instead, so now it dualboots

Re: about upgrade

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 06:45:00PM +0200, Yavuz wrote: > I have a freebsd7.0-stable > > how can I upgrade this to freebsd7.1-release ? > > is there a way for this one which from stable to release ? you mean to 7.1-release instead of 7.1-stable? what about tag=RELENG_7_1 in cvsup? see appendix

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Lars Lonne
2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol : > On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne wrote: >> Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo >> laptop. It used to dualboot with windows xp and gentoo linux, but I >> decided to give FreeBSD a try instead, so now it dualboots with >> windows and FreeBSD. My big

Re: system time on top output

2009-02-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 00:00:35 +0200 Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > Hi, > > I have a running pgsql server but on heavy loads it consumes lots of > time in system (more than %50). I can see that > > CPU states: 15.4% user, 0.0% nice, 81.9% system, 1.5% interrupt, > 1.2% idle > > But how can I debug tha

Re: about upgrade

2009-02-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Yavuz wrote: > I have a freebsd7.0-stable > how can I upgrade this to freebsd7.1-release ? > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html -- Glen Barber ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

about upgrade

2009-02-05 Thread Yavuz
I have a freebsd7.0-stable how can I upgrade this to freebsd7.1-release ? is there a way for this one which from stable to release ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubs

Re: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:31:56AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: > Can anyone recommend a newsletter application , preferably where I can just > have an ordinary user login via a webpage , upload a file/message/ and click > send? > > I was playing with mailman , but that seems to be a list serve

How to change default boot loader location

2009-02-05 Thread Victor M. Blood
Hi, All. I have a SATA-II disk, which split for 4 primary partitions, eg: 1. NTFS (Active) / ntldr 2. BSD (/var, /usr) 4. NTFS 3. BSD (/, swap) * partitions showed as 'how it's phisicaly placed on drive' Used bootpart I have create 'freebsd.bin' and try to loadup it into ntldr, boot.ini eg: boo

newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Can anyone recommend a newsletter application , preferably where I can just have an ordinary user login via a webpage , upload a file/message/ and click send? I was playing with mailman , but that seems to be a list serve app. tia ___ freebsd-ques

After upgrade problems with many open files

2009-02-05 Thread Klaus Friis Østergaard
Hi, After I recently update my 7.0 Freebsd Box I have now a small problem with performance and many open files. This has not een an issue before so I don't know what a nornal level is, but at the moment I have increased the kern.maxfiles from 12.000 to 60.000, and the system uses between 22.000 t

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne wrote: > Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo > laptop. It used to dualboot with windows xp and gentoo linux, but I > decided to give FreeBSD a try instead, so now it dualboots with > windows and FreeBSD. My biggest problem is connecting to t

Re: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?

2009-02-05 Thread Klaus Friis Østergaard
2009/2/1 Klaus Friis Østergaard : >On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:03:10PM +0100, Klaus Friis Østergaard wrote: > >I tried to remove the directories that was not removed by deinstall >manually, and then installed again, now no complaints about not being >able to uninstall I c

Re: xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:01:25AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > Anton Shterenlikht writes: > > > After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: > > > > # xdm > > # ps ax|grep xdm > > 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm > > # cat /var/log/xdm.log > > > Any ideas? > > 1) May w

xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-05 Thread Robert Huff
Anton Shterenlikht writes: > After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: > > # xdm > # ps ax|grep xdm > 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm > # cat /var/log/xdm.log > Any ideas? 1) May we see /var/log/Xorg.0.log? 2) Does "startx" work?

xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: # xdm # ps ax|grep xdm 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm # cat /var/log/xdm.log # So no xdm daemon. My system: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, xdm-1.1.8_1. Any ideas? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol Univers

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 02:34:35PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: > > I think "portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser" got me over the hurdle. There was > > !!! > > a file missing altho the port was installed. Forced it to build and > !!! > > > reinstall and things were able to build once again. > > Someone (

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Yavuz wrote: > Ok. I increased vfs.read_max > > while I was looking into this case in google, I see a value of MAXPHYS > in my kernel, there is a value called MAXPHYS=(128*1024) as default. > What should I set this value ? Neither vfs.read_max nor MAXPHYS will help a mail server (or any other se

Re: broken ports

2009-02-05 Thread David Collins
Sorry, forgot about that. Looking at it again I am not sure this is a ports thing, and more of an issue with the compiling tool chain. viper:/usr/ports/net-p2p/rtorrent$ sudo make ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found ===> Found saved configuration for rtorrent-0.8.2_1 => rtorre

Re: broken ports

2009-02-05 Thread Dominic Fandrey
David Collins wrote: > Hi, > > I am not sure if this is better here or in the ports list, but I > thought that since it is something that I have done because I don't > know what I am doing here would be better > > A while ago I installed ports and everything was working fine. > Recently I thought

Re: Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

2009-02-05 Thread O. Hartmann
Ulrich Spörlein wrote: On Fri, 30.01.2009 at 23:19:41 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new xorg-7.4 and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package twice now firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting with this e

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
while I was looking into this case in google, I see a value of MAXPHYS in my kernel, there is a value called MAXPHYS=(128*1024) as default. What should I set this value ? i use 1024*1024 Yavuz wrote: I have freebsd7 (amd64 bit) and sata2 disk 7200 rpm. it's running mail server which h

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-05 Thread Yavuz
Ok. I increased vfs.read_max while I was looking into this case in google, I see a value of MAXPHYS in my kernel, there is a value called MAXPHYS=(128*1024) as default. What should I set this value ? Yavuz wrote: I have freebsd7 (amd64 bit) and sata2 disk 7200 rpm. it's running mail serve

broken ports

2009-02-05 Thread David Collins
Hi, I am not sure if this is better here or in the ports list, but I thought that since it is something that I have done because I don't know what I am doing here would be better A while ago I installed ports and everything was working fine. Recently I thought one of my ports was causing my machi

Re: Graphics tablet / Xorg / mouse problems

2009-02-05 Thread Rainer Hurling
I think it should be sufficient to set hald_enable=FALSE in etc/rc.conf to deactivate hald instead of chmod usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald. Rainer Am 04.02.2009 05:23 (UTC+1) schrieb Antonio Rieser: Hi, Thanks a million for your help. Many thanks to Bartosz, too! Just to be sure I understood how

Re: OT: SVN checkout checksumming

2009-02-05 Thread perryh
> I want to use SVN to automate the update process of a custom > application. So, I'm planning to indicate to every PC to update > periodically to a specific branch of the repository. The problem > is that I need to be sure the files where not corrupted during > the transfer. So, I'm planning to

Re: Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension "Generic Event Extension" missing on display ":0.0".

2009-02-05 Thread cwt
Ulrich Spörlein wrote: On Fri, 30.01.2009 at 23:19:41 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new xorg-7.4 and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package twice now firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting with thi

Re: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

2009-02-05 Thread perryh
> > > you could rebuild "df" to print its numbers as unsigned > > > instead of signed. Just watch out if your local filesystems > > > start eating into their 8% reserve, since they'll start > > > reporting huge values. > > > > Or patch "df" to print local filesystem sizes as signed -- so > > that