Re: Problems with IPv6 CARP Interface in PF

2009-05-27 Thread Matthew Seaman
Michael K. Smith - Adhost wrote: Hello: I'm having reachability problems with a CARP interface set up on two 7.1 boxes with an uplink to Cisco routers. However, the inside CARP address on the same set of PF boxes are reachable with no trouble. Here's the config. Cisco Cisco H

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Graham Bentley
The xorg-server port has an option not to use hal. But it is enabled by default. Thanks for the info however that doesnt help me on uk currency key on the console which still eludes me. I suspect in my case, if I could figure out how to fix the console keyboard issue it would actually work in

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-27 Thread Graham Bentley
Is there any resolution to this? I had the same problem upgrading from 7.0 -> 7.2. I've been running FreeBSD dual-boot for over 10 years w/o this problem in the past. I re-ran my fdisk script from an old 6.x boot disk & recovered the XP partitions, but can't boot 7.2. Re-installing 7.2 kills XP.

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 28 May 2009 03:13:46 RW wrote: > On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200 > > Roland Smith wrote: > > Using e.g. 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' only removes those > > distfiles that do not belong to installed ports. > > I've not used it myself, but there is also a shell script called > d

Re: Help logging kernel messages after failed resume

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 28 May 2009 00:43:56 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > Note: I can ssh into the notebook, then "su -" and issue "acpiconf -s > 3", but I can't get the notebook to WOL .. so .. I have to press the > power button on the notebook to get it to resume and as a consecuence, > those messages are sent to

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Tim Judd
> > > I have a script which runs fping on a bunch of servers and writes > > a timestamp for any host that answers. It's run every minute from > > cron on our loghost. Another script watches the results and sends > > me an IM if any of my boxes fails to respond for 3 minutes. > > > > I c

Re: 7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Kent You're going to need to provide a bit more detail on the problem. On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:14 PM, KENT HAUSER wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any resolution to this? I had the same problem upgrading from 7.0 > -> 7.2. I've been running FreeBSD dual-boot for over 10 years w/o this > problem

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Karl Vogel wrote: >>> On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:02:08 -0500, >>> Andrew Gould said: > > A> You could write a script that sends uptime output and a start/stop > A> flag to a database when the system starts and stops.  This wouldn't > A> account for improper shutdowns,

7.2 Release kills my XP Dual Boot

2009-05-27 Thread KENT HAUSER
Hi, Is there any resolution to this? I had the same problem upgrading from 7.0 -> 7.2. I've been running FreeBSD dual-boot for over 10 years w/o this problem in the past. I re-ran my fdisk script from an old 6.x boot disk & recovered the XP partitions, but can't boot 7.2. Re-installing 7.

Re: RTL8111-GR driver for FreeBSD6.4

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 28 May 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I have been looking for and have not been able to find out if there is a driver for FreeBSD6.4 that supports the RTL8111-GR network adaptor. This is a port that is built into the Intel DG31PR Motherboard. Has anyone been able man 4 re says it s

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread RW
On Wed, 27 May 2009 21:34:58 -0400 Robert Huff wrote: > > RW writes: > > > Personally I much prefer the less aggressive mode (distclean -D) > > which deletes files unreferenced by the ports tree, rather than > > unreferenced by installed ports. > > I use "-DD". With nearly 1000 ports

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 28 May 2009 00:00:23 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar wrote: - post ONLY about FreeBSD. FreeBSD == what is created by FreeBSD fundation and contributors. >>> >>> But you're the troublemaker that needs shutting up. >> >> i don't see the matureness of comments like this. possibly you

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Wed, 27 May 2009 12:29:24 -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > What I can gather from this thread is that he, as a developer, might > possibly have the right to speak on behalf of FreeBSD in regards to a > sponsorship offer. On the other hand, you, who are neither a > developer nor a core team membe

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread Robert Huff
RW writes: > Personally I much prefer the less aggressive mode (distclean -D) > which deletes files unreferenced by the ports tree, rather than > unreferenced by installed ports. I use "-DD". With nearly 1000 ports on one machine, it's important to realize many ports go months (and s

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread RW
On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200 Roland Smith wrote: > Using e.g. 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' only removes those > distfiles that do not belong to installed ports. I've not used it myself, but there is also a shell script called distviper in bsdadminscripts which supports both of distc

Problems with IPv6 CARP Interface in PF

2009-05-27 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello: I'm having reachability problems with a CARP interface set up on two 7.1 boxes with an uplink to Cisco routers. However, the inside CARP address on the same set of PF boxes are reachable with no trouble. Here's the config. Cisco Cisco HSRP Gateway | CA

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread John D. Gage III
Robert Huff wrote: herbert langhans writes: I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such).. If you want to be selective, try "portsclean" which is part of portupgrade(-*).

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> No! Unless you think that fBSd is the only functional/reliable OS. If > > for my needs it's actually true. Only FreeBSD meets my requirements. ok . . . > >> Wojciech, I, like many others who have responded on this thread, >> appreciate

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
No! Unless you think that fBSd is the only functional/reliable OS. If for my needs it's actually true. Only FreeBSD meets my requirements. Wojciech, I, like many others who have responded on this thread, appreciate much of the help that you provide on this list. You seem to fail (for whatever

Re: RTL8111-GR driver for FreeBSD6.4

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have been looking for and have not been able to find out if there is a driver for FreeBSD6.4 that supports the RTL8111-GR network adaptor. This is a port that is built into the Intel DG31PR Motherboard. Has anyone been able man 4 re says it support RTL8111 but i have FreeBSD 7.1

Re: rsync approach

2009-05-27 Thread Doug Hardie
On 27 May 2009, at 15:03, prad wrote: we have 2 static ip addresses with a machine running 7.2 connected to each. one is the primary server, while the other does only dns and receives bkp dumps from the first. we want to set things up so the 2nd can be brought on line at a moment's notice.

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
therefore, it seems that keeping the list to fbsd issues is a valid point. Which WILL end up with moderated list within some time. Current quality will not improve, only will get worse sooner or later. The moderated list should be started quickly for simple reason: at the beginning (almost)

Help logging kernel messages after failed resume

2009-05-27 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
OK, it goes like this: Dell Inspiron 1318, "boot -v" can be found in here: http://pastebin.com/f3a1c204a sysctl -a | grep hw.acpi | sort can be found in here: http://pastebin.com/fcfc0035 First shot: Try the "Livefs CD", "myhost# acpiconf -s 3" WORKS !!! The machine goes into suspend state and

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am afraid you still do not understand it. This sponsorship offer was NOT directed to you. Neither was it to me. I did not reply to it because it was clearly addressed to the core team. it was addressed to mailing list. if he would like to address it to core team, then he would do this! to b

RE: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to miss those. Everyone is right, Everyone is wrong, kiss and make up - and then PLEASE STFU! And that's said with ALL due respect and not directed toward any one person! All this $hit DID make me realize I need to get my company to pony up some $$$ - FreeBSD has been beneficial to u, so thanks

RTL8111-GR driver for FreeBSD6.4

2009-05-27 Thread Troy Beisigl
Hi all, I have been looking for and have not been able to find out if there is a driver for FreeBSD6.4 that supports the RTL8111-GR network adaptor. This is a port that is built into the Intel DG31PR Motherboard. Has anyone been able to get this network card to work under 6.4? Thanks, T

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread prad
On Wed, 27 May 2009 17:15:58 -0500 Neal Hogan wrote: > > of course it's very mature response :) it was repeated so many > > times this or similar way at me that it matured! > > That's actually pretty funny! Nice! > yes that is very well done! > As far as having the right to post your opinion

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> Well, that certainly doesn't follow. >> >> Actually, that one does. > > Don't bother, he just answered that after reading "wojciech puchar" in mail > header, so he had to be against. No! Unless you think that fBSd is the only functio

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, First of all, if anyone is still reading it, I apologize if I sounded harsh but I do care about FreeBSD so it does bother me that potential supporters are turned down. Explanation below. > anyway, i reread the original "sponsoring" offer and i think i understand > well. so - if FreeBSD

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As far as having the right to post your opinion . . sure . . . but that does not mean that your opinions are just as good as others. Being of the opinion that the earth is flat is just not a very good opinion . . . no? exactly. but as you may compare some of my opinions to "flat earth" as i m

RE: Is this a gmirror bug?

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Steele
>How this "reimaging" work if i may ask? bootable DVD with unix and script >that do zcat [partition image.gz] >/dev/partition We have a two step process. First we run a script that creates the master image as a tgz. The image is created at an alternate root using the -C option of pkg_add and the

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well, that certainly doesn't follow. Actually, that one does. Don't bother, he just answered that after reading "wojciech puchar" in mail header, so he had to be against. If you use FreeBSD because of the OS functionality/reliability, etc then trashy noise on the questions list wouldn't m

rsync approach

2009-05-27 Thread prad
we have 2 static ip addresses with a machine running 7.2 connected to each. one is the primary server, while the other does only dns and receives bkp dumps from the first. we want to set things up so the 2nd can be brought on line at a moment's notice. therefore, we are thinking of rsync to dupl

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Sorry to wade in to this, but the reality has been and is just the oposite. It is m. Puchar who has been making reactionary responses and somewhat unkind ones at that.Is it a language issue? Or is this. please tell me (privately) the fragment that you read as this, because everything i t

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The xorg-server port has an option not to use hal. But it is enabled by default. indeed | |[X] HALCompile with HAL config support u :) how nice. while i have Xorg already installed when i need, and don't upgrade it (as it works fine), once again thank you very mu

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: - post ONLY about FreeBSD. FreeBSD == what is created by FreeBSD fundation and contributors. >>> >>> But you're the troublemaker that needs shutting up. >>> >> i don't see the matureness of comments like this. possibly you meant it

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:57:58PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Server 1.5.3 also really wants to configure its input devices > > via hald. This is causing some issues with moused and > > /dev/sysmouse. There are a couple of options for how to deal > > one more question - does it mean th

RE: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Gary Gatten
PLEASE can we move on now! I prefer not to filter people cause on rare occasions everyone has something useful or funny to say and I don't want to miss those. Everyone is right, Everyone is wrong, kiss and make up - and then PLEASE STFU! And that's said with ALL due respect and not directed towa

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 02:38:46PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Wojciech Puchar > wrote: > >>> > >>> Of course - ban it! > >> > >> > >> Just my 2c... Snotty comments like this in a public forum, is exactly why > >> I > >> no longer use FreeBSD.  Just about everythin

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:21:19PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >>"mainstream", or because i have opinion at all, i just respond normally. > > > >Wojtek - I also think you have the capacity to help and you often do. But > >don't pretend to be speaking for the FreeBSD team because you are doing

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/5/27 Roland Smith : > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: >> Hi Daemons, >> a short question: >> >> I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? > > Sure. > >> Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such).. >

RE: Is this a gmirror bug?

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
does it detects errors and fix them? after fsck is it ok or still nonsense in Used? Unfortunately I did not do the fsck. We have an automated reimaging process that lets me rebuild a system in less than five minutes so I decided for expediency to do this. If I see this happen again though, I'll

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Once again - please do moderated forum that posting rules will be - post ONLY about FreeBSD. FreeBSD == what is created by FreeBSD fundation and contributors. This means - base system+port system. And mean for example that: But you're the troublemaker that needs shutting up. I'm very sorry f

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
DEST STATE AGE EXP PKTS BYTES 62.75.158.169:8020 4:4 05:03:05 23:59:59 380K 296M 5 hours of online radio and I downloaded 296Meg. I don't want that hitting my harddisk at all. And if I do, then I can always record it. you don't have to. use for example mpl

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread herbert langhans
Thanks, quite some GB I could clean out on my workstation running on a good(?) old(!) 20GB harddisk.. herb langhans On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200 Roland Smith wrote: > On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: > > Hi Daemons, > > a short question: > > > > I can

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- post ONLY about FreeBSD. FreeBSD == what is created by FreeBSD fundation and contributors. But you're the troublemaker that needs shutting up. i don't see the matureness of comments like this. possibly you meant it in a different way. of course it's very mature response :) it was repeated

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Server 1.5.3 also really wants to configure its input devices via hald. This is causing some issues with moused and /dev/sysmouse. There are a couple of options for how to deal one more question - does it mean that it "really wants" or "you don't have a choice at all". I'm asking to know

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread prad
On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:20:15 +0100 Chris Rees wrote: > > - post ONLY about FreeBSD. FreeBSD == what is created by FreeBSD > > fundation and contributors. > > But you're the troublemaker that needs shutting up. > i don't see the matureness of comments like this. possibly you meant it in a differe

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Graham Bentley
> > What this means is that to get a UK keyboard layout in xorg you need a > file in /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/ > > I've named my copy 10-x11-keyboard.fdi and it contains: > > > > > > kbd > xorg > type="string">microsoftkey="input.x11_options.XkbLayout

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Graham Bentley
> sorry if stupid question, but have xorg got radical changes within last > months? > Xorg -version = 1.6.1 compiled from msot recent ports Initially mouse and keyboard didnt work even with correct xorg settings. Now you need hald_enable="YES" and dbus_enable="YES" in /etc/rc.conf and the ms / kb

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 27 May 2009 23:10:24 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > I have jsut loaded up 7.2, fetched the ports and installed xorg / > > fluxbox etc - for first time my kb / mouse didnt work in xorg but > > now I have that sorted with enabling hald etc > > > sorry if stupid question, but have

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:34:36 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > I don't see what static content has got to do with it. OP wants a > > different delivery method. Just like you can download the static FreeBSD > > DVD via ftp/http or torrent. > > i said "exaggeration", not "wrong way". > > if there is a

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >> thread is a PERFECT example there of, but there are many, many, many >> threads that got COMPLETELY derailed because someone said the smallest >> little thing that annoyed someone else.  GROW UP PEOPLE FFS. > > no matter what you think and what your opinion is, you wi

RE: Is this a gmirror bug?

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Steele
>did you checked that partitions with fsck? (fsck_ffs -y) > >does it detects errors and fix them? >after fsck is it ok or still nonsense in Used? Unfortunately I did not do the fsck. We have an automated reimaging process that lets me rebuild a system in less than five minutes so I decided for exp

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, May 27, 2009 14:32:30 -0500 Mel Flynn wrote: On Tuesday 26 May 2009 02:08:38 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On May 25, 2009 4:02:57 PM -0700 Carlos Pardo wrote: > We are back porting the bce driver from 8.0 to 7.0. We are still missing > some changes since cold boots work but reboot

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: > Hi Daemons, > a short question: > > I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? Sure. > Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such).. They won't. But they'll have to re

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
date: Mon May 18 09:03:09 EDT 2009 uname: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0 uptime: 9:03AM up 732 days, 11:36, 0 users Hardly possible in Poland. i can't imagine 2 years without power failures :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have jsut loaded up 7.2, fetched the ports and installed xorg / fluxbox etc - for first time my kb / mouse didnt work in xorg but now I have that sorted with enabling hald etc sorry if stupid question, but have xorg got radical changes within last months? I never needed hald to have keyboar

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:02:08 -0500, >> Andrew Gould said: A> You could write a script that sends uptime output and a start/stop A> flag to a database when the system starts and stops. This wouldn't A> account for improper shutdowns, although you could tell when a "stop" A> date/time was miss

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Karl Vogel
>> On Tue, 26 May 2009 23:14:10 -0400, >> Steve Bertrand said: S> Just a little bit of sadness of having to 'down' it, given this uptime in S> my relatively hostile environment. *sigh* I'll match your sigh and add some curse-words. One of our fileservers: date: Mon May 18 09:03:09 E

UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Graham Bentley
Hello, I have jsut loaded up 7.2, fetched the ports and installed xorg / fluxbox etc - for first time my kb / mouse didnt work in xorg but now I have that sorted with enabling hald etc However, I have noticed that the GBP symbol does not work? In console I get a beep, in xorg nothing. I have trie

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
thread is a PERFECT example there of, but there are many, many, many threads that got COMPLETELY derailed because someone said the smallest little thing that annoyed someone else. GROW UP PEOPLE FFS. no matter what you think and what your opinion is, you will always find part of forum users to

removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread Robert Huff
herbert langhans writes: > I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? > > Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such).. If you want to be selective, try "portsclean" which is part of portupgrade(-*).

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread prad
On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:30:01 +0200 Chris Knipe wrote: > If you want the world to believe you have a mature OS, *ACT* like you > have a mature OS... > i think it is a good idea for people to act maturely on forums otherwise we stop communicating and start screammunicating. > Why am I still here

removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread herbert langhans
Hi Daemons, a short question: I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such).. Thanks herb langhans ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 27 May 2009 at 09:44:03 PDT Glen Barber wrote: This is enough. I agree. It is characteristic of flamewars that the participants are no longer talking about anything except each other. It's entirely off-topic. I don't know which is more tiresome, Wojciech's edgy remarks or the const

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I don't see what static content has got to do with it. OP wants a different delivery method. Just like you can download the static FreeBSD DVD via ftp/http or torrent. i said "exaggeration", not "wrong way". if there is a requirement to use THAT delivery method from client, you are absolutely

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Knipe
On 27/05/09 12:40 -0700, prad wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009 19:34:04 +0200 "Chris Knipe" wrote: Snotty comments like this in a public forum, is exactly why I no longer use FreeBSD. i really don't understand this. it would make sense for you to ignore the forum, but why take it out on the os?

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:59:58 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> but is it for video? seems like sound broadcast > > > > It doesn't care what's inside the ogg container: > > http://www.theora.org/benefits/ > > good. i was suggested by /usr/ports/audio/ > > anyway for just playing static video/audio fi

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Boris Samorodov
Wojciech Puchar writes: 1. Monthly sponsoring of around 50 to 100 USD (restore a quote Wojciech deletted intentionally) >>> add two zeroes to this values then maybe FreeBSD core team will be >>> interested. of course i can't speak of them, but i think so. >> >> No, any financial co

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Boosten
Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while stopping using it >>> because of forum - still read and posts here. >>> >> >> None of your concern: this is just what everybody is writing about. >> Whether someone is using FreeBSD or not, and reading here or not, is >

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >>> "mainstream", or because i have opinion at all, i just respond normally. >> >> Wojtek - I also think you have the capacity to help and you often do. But >> don't pretend to be speaking for the FreeBSD team because you are doing > > reread my posts. i didn't speak for

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread prad
On Wed, 27 May 2009 19:34:04 +0200 "Chris Knipe" wrote: > Snotty comments like this in a public forum, is exactly why I > no longer use FreeBSD. > i really don't understand this. it would make sense for you to ignore the forum, but why take it out on the os? -- In friendship, prad

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar : >>> exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while stopping using it >>> because of forum - still read and posts here. >>> >> >> None of your concern: this is just what everybody is writing about. >> Whether someone is using FreeBSD or not, and reading here or not,

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:02:08 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: > You could write a script that sends uptime output and a start/stop flag to a > database when the system starts and stops. This wouldn't account for > improper shutdowns, although you could tell when a "stop" date/time was > missing. I've

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 25 May 2009 13:53:40 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: > Hello, > > > Hello all , I want to install a Mail Server with Webmail, > > > > Anybody to know a good Stable Mail Server and Web Mail > > I recommend the following step-by-step instructions: > http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=4 It's a de

Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:24:17PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why > > all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when > > the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the > > proper t

Re: interrupt storm on irq 10

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:30:19PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > I'm not telling that you are wrong that cable produced this, but i > can't find any explanation for that. One two-port controller card, two drives, two cables. Interrupt storms move from one port to the other with the suspect ca

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while stopping using it because of forum - still read and posts here. None of your concern: this is just what everybody is writing about. Whether someone is using FreeBSD or not, and reading here or not, is irrelevant to most (and probably to all) dis

Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:24:17PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why > >all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when > >the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the > >proper typed

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
but is it for video? seems like sound broadcast It doesn't care what's inside the ogg container: http://www.theora.org/benefits/ good. i was suggested by /usr/ports/audio/ anyway for just playing static video/audio files on user request it's just exaggeration. _

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
loaded server with 2 months uptime and with quite lot of traffic going through that card. Don't have local archives handy, but here ya go: -- Mel tomorrow

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Boosten
Wojciech Puchar wrote: no longer use FreeBSD. Just about everything in these mailing lists turns >>> >>> If you stopped using FreeBSD BECAUSE OF FORUM, congratulations ;) >>> >>> This means that OS functionality is not important for you at all! >> >> Well, that certainly doesn't follow.

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:38:32 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> stream service/server into FreeBDS 7.2? > > > > Err, this thread is very long...can we blame our snuggle Pole or did no > > one mention "convert to ogg-theora and install > > audio/ices2+audio/icecast2". > > but is it for video? seems li

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:37:47 Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> Why would you need to do that? There is a bce driver in the 7.x OS > >> already. > > > > Cause it's unstable? Search these or many other archives. The short > > answer: under IO load the card drops net link or panics kernel. > > is it a

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
no longer use FreeBSD.  Just about everything in these mailing lists turns If you stopped using FreeBSD BECAUSE OF FORUM, congratulations ;) This means that OS functionality is not important for you at all! Well, that certainly doesn't follow. exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while

Re: turning [x]html files into .odt files.

2009-05-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:21:26PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: > 2009/5/26 Gary Kline : > > [[ ... ]] > > > > In a few days, I'll have a fair bit of spare time. I can make a port > then, if no-one more experienced wants to snap it up. > > Like your Jottings, by the way. > Well TH

Re: How to detect when gmirror sync is complete?

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Peter On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Peter Steele wrote: > I know I could have a script that continually checks "gmirror status" to > detect when a gmirror synchronization has completed, but is there a more > event-driven approach? Something that could be used to trigger and event > like de

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: >>> >>> Of course - ban it! >> >> >> Just my 2c... Snotty comments like this in a public forum, is exactly why >> I >> no longer use FreeBSD.  Just about everything in these mailing lists turns > > If you stopped using FreeBSD BECAUSE OF FORU

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
stream service/server into FreeBDS 7.2? Err, this thread is very long...can we blame our snuggle Pole or did no one mention "convert to ogg-theora and install audio/ices2+audio/icecast2". but is it for video? seems like sound broadcast ___ freebsd-qu

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Why would you need to do that? There is a bce driver in the 7.x OS already. Cause it's unstable? Search these or many other archives. The short answer: under IO load the card drops net link or panics kernel. is it any recipe to trigger that behaviour? i have that card (builtin) on loaded se

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 25 May 2009 15:41:04 Jos Chrispijn wrote: > I have some short movies (a la YouTube) that I would like to show as > video streams. Presenting them by download is messing up my bandwidth > (...). Can someone tell me if there is a simple solution installing such a > stream service/server int

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 02:08:38 Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On May 25, 2009 4:02:57 PM -0700 Carlos Pardo > > wrote: > > We are back porting the bce driver from 8.0 to 7.0. We are still missing > > some changes since cold boots work but rebooting (warm booting) fails! > > > > The error is: > > > > bce

Re: interrupt storm on irq 10

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My source of interrupt storms was caused by a bad SATA cable. Installed a new VIA 6421-based SATA card (selected because it was only $15) and two new hard drives for the purpose of copying files off two older drives. New drives were detected but ad4 did not work when ad6 did. Swapped drives and th

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:36, Mel Flynn wrote: > On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: >> All, >> >> I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the >> authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small >> problem, but don't know how to install the

Re: How to detect when gmirror sync is complete?

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 22:33:54 Peter Steele wrote: > I know I could have a script that continually checks "gmirror status" to > detect when a gmirror synchronization has completed, but is there a more > event-driven approach? Something that could be used to trigger and event > like devd does for d

Re: FreeBSD & Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the proper typedefs to create them. int, short and char are portable, only other things mu

RE: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Of course - ban it! Just my 2c... Snotty comments like this in a public forum, is exactly why I no longer use FreeBSD. Just about everything in these mailing lists turns If you stopped using FreeBSD BECAUSE OF FORUM, congratulations ;) This means that OS functionality is not important for

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
"mainstream", or because i have opinion at all, i just respond normally. Wojtek - I also think you have the capacity to help and you often do. But don't pretend to be speaking for the FreeBSD team because you are doing reread my posts. i didn't speak for them and i said that i'm not them. i AS

Re: Formatted text conversion

2009-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:41:56AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: > I have e-books in several formats (DOC, LIT, PDF, RTF, HTML, TXT, > etc). Is there a Unix command-line tool that converts between these > formats? Not a single tool. Although some conversions are possible using different tools. Applica

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