Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Hall
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 4:14 PM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: >> $ ifconfig ral0 list scan >> SSID            BSSID              CHAN RATE   S:N     INT CAPS >> livingroom      00:13:10:b9:e7:d6    6   54M -93:-95  100 E > > 93 is too low. Paul, I really appreciate your help. I'm obviously not an expert on

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread prad
On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400 Daniel Underwood wrote: > Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you > prefer? and why? > we use archlinux (though we've enjoyed debian and the ubuntus). arch is very clean and fast - rather bsd like in fact. it is very well supported by the communit

Re: Portaudit strange behavior.

2009-07-02 Thread Arek Czereszewski
Hi again, Today portaudit works fine with ${portaudit_sites="http://portaudit.FreeBSD.org/"} Now I need to change this option in portaudit on all servers. Regards Arek -- Arek Czereszewski arek (at) wup-katowice (dot) pl "UNIX allows me to work smarter, not harder." __

Re: JDK6 for FreeBSD-64?

2009-07-02 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 02:32:54PM -0700, Peter Steele wrote: > >There's java/jdk16 and the java/openjdk6 ports. However, I don't know > >whether they support jmap or not. > > The jmap tool in java/jdk16 doesn't appear to be complete either. Has > anyone successfully built openjdk6 for FreeBSD? Y

Re: Strange startup behaviour.

2009-07-02 Thread Danny Carroll
Danny Carroll wrote: > That would surprise me. The thing that looked strange to me was that > there was a heap of files in /etc/rc.d/ that look like they had not been > accessed since the last shutdown of the machine. I think I figured out this behaviour. I believe that the access times are diff

Re: replacing harddisks

2009-07-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have gmirror of two 200GB disks where I have whole /usr f my freebsd 7.2 system. root, /var and /boot are on other disk, but I need to replace those both disks with bigger ones now. To get bigger /usr. So what I'm wondering now is if there is way to take one disk out of mirror (geom) and add big

Re: Transferring dump files ASCII or BINARY

2009-07-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I downloaded it in binary mode, and when I try t that's right. restore -rf /usbstick/root.dump I am getting: "Tape is not a dump tape" Should dumps be transfered in BINARY or ASCII mode? binary. Any other insights welcome. there is other problem somewhere else. Also, should I remov

Re: Strange startup behaviour.

2009-07-02 Thread Danny Carroll
Bill Moran wrote: > Probably good to attach your rc.conf file, as that's the most likely thing > that's wrong, given the information you provided. > That would surprise me. The thing that looked strange to me was that there was a heap of files in /etc/rc.d/ that look like they had not been acce

Re: Grid computing under FreeBSD using jails ... ?

2009-07-02 Thread Sam Fourman Jr.
On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 6:36 AM, Norberto Meijome wrote: > On Sat, 6 Sep 2008 20:27:10 -0500 > "Sam Fourman Jr." wrote: > >> I am also interested in using FreeBSD as the host in some grid/cloud >> solution >> I am open to any Ideas anyone has. > > Hey Sam, > do you have any particular grid/cloud/

RE: JDK6 for FreeBSD-64?

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Steele
>There's java/jdk16 and the java/openjdk6 ports. However, I don't know >whether they support jmap or not. The jmap tool in java/jdk16 doesn't appear to be complete either. Has anyone successfully built openjdk6 for FreeBSD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-02 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/2/09, Robert Hall wrote: > On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: >> On 7/2/09, Robert Hall wrote: And what about TX/RX signal? >>> >>> I don't know where to look for that. :) >> >> It is part of scan output. > > I don't remember seeing that in the output. I'll put the Lin

Transferring dump files ASCII or BINARY

2009-07-02 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am attempting to restore a root filesystem I donwloaded this morning. I downloaded it in binary mode, and when I try to restore -rf /usbstick/root.dump I am getting: "Tape is not a dump tape" Should dumps be transfered in BINARY or ASCII mode? Any other insights welcome. Also, sh

Re: intermittent failures with sendmail

2009-07-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jul 2, 2009, at 8:33 AM, Alex Teslik wrote: Jul 2 03:35:16 gouda sm-mta[40342]: n5ULKB0i064252: SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to b.mx.mail.yahoo.com.: Broken pipe Jul 2 04:23:01 gouda sm-mta[47860]: n5ULKB0i064252: SYSERR(root): timeout writing message to e.mx.mail.yahoo.c

Re: JDK6 for FreeBSD-64?

2009-07-02 Thread Jonathan Chen
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 11:51:13AM -0700, Peter Steele wrote: > Is there an alternative to Diablo JDK for FreeBSD-64? We've been using > this port for a while and it works fine, but some of the tools available > in Java distributions for other platforms are not fully implemented in > the Diablo por

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-02 Thread Robert Hall
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 6:04 AM, Paul B. Mahol wrote: > On 7/2/09, Robert Hall wrote: >>> And what about TX/RX signal? >> >> I don't know where to look for that. :) > > It is part of scan output. I don't remember seeing that in the output. I'll put the Linksys back in the FBSD box and look for it.

JDK6 for FreeBSD-64?

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Steele
Is there an alternative to Diablo JDK for FreeBSD-64? We've been using this port for a while and it works fine, but some of the tools available in Java distributions for other platforms are not fully implemented in the Diablo port. We're particularly interested in the memory profiling tool jmap.

Re: scripting tip needed

2009-07-02 Thread Alexandre Vieira
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 22:02:48 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar < > woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> wrote: > >> Using an interactive language like Python you can actually *test* the > >> code as you are writing it. This is a major win most of

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Thu, Jul 02, 2009, Artifex Maximus wrote: >Hello! > >On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Daniel Underwood > wrote: > >> QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you >> prefer? and why? > >I used to like Slackware but moved to Ubuntu two or three years before. I >liked Slackwar

Re: Dependency confusion

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Clark
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jul 02), Peter Clark said: I have a number of ports installed on my 7.2Release box. When I issue pkg_info I see that I have both db41-4.1.25_4 and db46-4.6.21.4 installed. Is there an easy way to see which program is linked to which db? Is this some sort

Re: replacing harddisks

2009-07-02 Thread Manolis Kiagias
pepe wrote: > I have gmirror of two 200GB disks where I have whole /usr f my freebsd 7.2 > system. root, /var and /boot are on other disk, but I need to replace those > both disks with bigger ones now. To get bigger /usr. So what I'm wondering > now is if there is way to take one disk out of mirror

replacing harddisks

2009-07-02 Thread pepe
I have gmirror of two 200GB disks where I have whole /usr f my freebsd 7.2 system. root, /var and /boot are on other disk, but I need to replace those both disks with bigger ones now. To get bigger /usr. So what I'm wondering now is if there is way to take one disk out of mirror (geom) and add bigg

Re: Dependency confusion

2009-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Peter Clark : > > I have a number of ports installed on my 7.2Release box. When I issue > pkg_info I see that I have both db41-4.1.25_4 and db46-4.6.21.4 > installed. Is there an easy way to see which program is linked to which > db? Is this some sort of redundant listing and I r

Re: Dependency confusion

2009-07-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jul 02), Peter Clark said: > I have a number of ports installed on my 7.2Release box. When I issue > pkg_info I see that I have both db41-4.1.25_4 and db46-4.6.21.4 installed. > Is there an easy way to see which program is linked to which db? Is this > some sort of redundant

Dependency confusion

2009-07-02 Thread Peter Clark
Hello, I have a number of ports installed on my 7.2Release box. When I issue pkg_info I see that I have both db41-4.1.25_4 and db46-4.6.21.4 installed. Is there an easy way to see which program is linked to which db? Is this some sort of redundant listing and I really only have db4.6 installe

intermittent failures with sendmail

2009-07-02 Thread Alex Teslik
I have sendmail 8.14.2 running on freebsd 7.0: [gouda:root]/var/spool/mqueue# sendmail -d0 < /dev/null Version 8.14.2 Compiled with: DNSMAP LOG MAP_REGEX MATCHGECOS MILTER MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETINET6 NETUNIX NEWDB NIS PIPELINING SASLv2 SCANF START

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 2 Jul 2009 09:07:08 +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > I was wondering if there were any other Slackers out there! Of course we are still `out there'. I started using a UNIX-like clone on my 386 SX with Slackware, by fetching the floppy disk images. I've abandoned Linux for serious work f

Re: Strange startup behaviour.

2009-07-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Danny Carroll : > Since I recently started using freebsd as a adsl gateway I have noticed > some strange things at startup. > > /etc/rc.d/natd does not get executed. If I run it manually it works > fine but not at boot time. > > I just rebooted now and (again) had to re-start na

Strange startup behaviour.

2009-07-02 Thread Danny Carroll
Since I recently started using freebsd as a adsl gateway I have noticed some strange things at startup. /etc/rc.d/natd does not get executed. If I run it manually it works fine but not at boot time. I just rebooted now and (again) had to re-start natd. Looking at the startup scipts I see some

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Modulok
> On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood > wrote: >> QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you >> prefer? and why? > > "Modern" Linux distributions don't appeal very much to me, because > they are messy: Missing manpages... That and Linux seems to only ever ge

Re: gmirror per partition. Was: Re: gmirror gm0 destroyed on shutdown; GPT corrupt

2009-07-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
# gmirror label -vb round-robin root /dev/da0p2 gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/da0p2: Operation not permitted. isn't that partition accessed by other process or mounted? should it not be mounted? yes it should not, no matter what architecture. _

How to get SystemMemorySize?

2009-07-02 Thread Deepak Madhusudan
Hi All, In linux driver in order to get the system memory size we can get it using the following call. struct sysinfo si; si_meminfo(&si); return (si.tatotalram); Is there any similar call in freebsd to get the following information.Currently i am using freebsd 6.3.Please let me know. Th

Re: gmirror per partition. Was: Re: gmirror gm0 destroyed on shutdown; GPT corrupt

2009-07-02 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 10:00:54PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> It's better to use gmirror per partition. > > > > Like this? > > > > # gmirror label -vb round-robin root /dev/da0p2 > > gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/da0p2: Operation not permitted. > isn't that partition accessed by oth

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Daniel Underwood
>> I'm very interested to see the spread of opinion about Linux >> distributions from FreeBSD fans. > > Why? Good question. Because of the perspective many FreeBSD fans (people who like and use FreeBSD) have toward *NIX OS's. You said it well: > "Modern" Linux distributions don't appeal very mu

RE: X fails to start

2009-07-02 Thread Da Rock
> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 13:54:22 +0200 > Subject: Re: X fails to start > From: one...@gmail.com > To: rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > On 7/2/09, Da Rock wrote: > >> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:16:49 +0200 > >> Subject: Re: X fails to start > >> From: one...@gma

Re: boot0 / LILO / GRUB: dual boot FreeBSD and Linux

2009-07-02 Thread Daniel Underwood
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ssl acceleration cards

2009-07-02 Thread Cameron Jacobson
Just wondering if anyone knows whether any ssl acceleration cards on the market support the asynchronous or public-key algorithms? Though I've tested cards I know have public key functionality, the driver FreeBSD uses never seems to support the public key algorithms, only improves processing speed

Re: X fails to start

2009-07-02 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/2/09, Da Rock wrote: >> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:16:49 +0200 >> Subject: Re: X fails to start >> From: one...@gmail.com >> To: rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com >> CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> >> On 7/2/09, Da Rock wrote: >> > >> > I'm still having intermittent troubles with getting the fr

RE: X fails to start

2009-07-02 Thread Da Rock
> Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2009 12:16:49 +0200 > Subject: Re: X fails to start > From: one...@gmail.com > To: rock_on_the_...@hotmail.com > CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > On 7/2/09, Da Rock wrote: > > > > I'm still having intermittent troubles with getting the freebsd servers > > seeing my mail

Re: X fails to start

2009-07-02 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/2/09, Da Rock wrote: > > I'm still having intermittent troubles with getting the freebsd servers > seeing my mail servers for my normal maillist subscription, so if I could be > cc'd... > > I'm struggling to get my head around a reasonably severe problem with Xorg - > I'm wondering if anyone

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Artifex Maximus
Hello! On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 12:58 AM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you > prefer? and why? I used to like Slackware but moved to Ubuntu two or three years before. I liked Slackware simplicity but its package system was too simple and

Re: Wireless NICs on 7.2

2009-07-02 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 7/2/09, Robert Hall wrote: >> And what about TX/RX signal? > > I don't know where to look for that. :) It is part of scan output. >> Could you put backtrace somewhere? >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/developers-handbook/kerneldebug-gdb.html > > Backtrace from crashing with a Belkin ndi

FreeBSD Raid Monitoring website moved

2009-07-02 Thread Nico Schottelius
Good morning everybody, the FreeBSD raid monitoring website, which contains a lot information regarding raid monitoring under FreeBSD, has a new home: http://www.nico.schottelius.org/docs/freebsd-raid-monitoring/ If you've additional information or updates, please let me know at nico-freebsd-r

Re: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-02 Thread Jonathan McKeown
On Thursday 02 July 2009 07:21:25 Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 1 Jul 2009 18:58:15 -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > > QUESTION: Of the various modern Linux distributions, which do you > > prefer? and why? > > Actually, I'm not a Linux user. But Linux was my first step into > using UNIX on a x86 PC