RE: request

2009-12-19 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hello Akbar, Before submitting a question, make sure its a proper question! and before attempting to do something, read about it, check it out then decide if you want to do it or not. Did you read about FreeBSD and did you check the website www.FreeBSD.org or not? If you

Re: How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-19 Thread Glen Barber
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 8:59 PM, Yuri wrote: > How do I launch network manager that allows to visually manage WiFi and LAN > connections? > I have FreeBSD on a laptop and I have to establish WiFi connections manually > -- it's very inconvenient. You can always edit wpa_supplicant.conf(5) - you do

How to enable network manager in KDE?

2009-12-19 Thread Yuri
How do I launch network manager that allows to visually manage WiFi and LAN connections? I have FreeBSD on a laptop and I have to establish WiFi connections manually -- it's very inconvenient. In Kubuntu this problem is solved and WiFi management is very easy. It's the same Looking for the sam

Re: question about building a custom kernel

2009-12-19 Thread Robert Huff
ill...@gmail.com writes: > You aren't going to gain much in speed or size savings, so > do take care to understand what you hope to gain. While I haven't done even an eyeball check recently, not too long ago the size savings for an aggressively pruned kernel could be quite noticable; t

ld-elf related problems

2009-12-19 Thread Ghirai
Hi, I'm running 8.0-RELEASE amd64, and various applications randomly coredump and exit with signal 10; this has started apparently after installing numpy from ports, which also pulled gcc44. Right after that basically all apps i had running crashed, and they wouldn't start. The error was somethin

Re: question about building a custom kernel

2009-12-19 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:46:27 -0500 "ill...@gmail.com" wrote: > You aren't going to gain much in speed or size savings, so > do take care to understand what you hope to gain. If you > wish to shorten kernel compile times and reduce the size of > /boot, have a look at the MODULES_OVERRIDE and > WI

Re: ntpq command output and unreachable state?

2009-12-19 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 14:10:40 +0200 Omer Faruk Sen wrote: > # ntpq -c peers > remote refid st t when poll reach delay > offset jitter > == > +194.27.110.130 131.188.3.2202 u 27h 10240 67

Re: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread Ed Jobs
On Saturday 19 December 2009 22:26, Pieter de Goeje wrote: > Don't spread FUD please. If you had read the WIKI you would know it talks > about sysinstall support for ZFS, not about removing UFS. i'm sorry if my mail was misleading. we have no idea how it will be implemented. my guess is that both

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 09:33:49AM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > Greg Larkin wrote: > > > ... > > > > truncate -4 myfile should get rid of the last four bytes. Maybe > > > > there's a similar efficient way to truncate the start of a file. > > > > > > This should do

[FR]Lien mort sur install-pre (floppies)

2009-12-19 Thread Pierre-Yves Le Borgne
Bonjour, Sur http://www.freebsd.org/doc/fr/books/handbook/install-pre.html , un lien indiqué ( ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/8.0-RELEASE/floppies/) est mort. Cordialement, Pierre-Yves Le Borgne ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 08:45:02PM -0500, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Warren Block wrote: > > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > >> I'm creating binary files in fortran. > >> Fortran adds 4 byte record delimiters at the beginning > >>

Re: editing a binary file

2009-12-19 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 06:38:04PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: > On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > I'm creating binary files in fortran. > > Fortran adds 4 byte record delimiters at the beginning > > and the end of each record, which, in the case of a binary > > file, is just at

Re: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 19 December 2009 19:49:17 Reko Turja wrote: > > under Other Kernel: > > ZFS as default > > So anyone running 32bit or under 2Gb of memory don't need to bother > with FreeBSD anymore after 9.0 RELEASE? Don't spread FUD please. If you had read the WIKI you would know it talks about sysi

Re: FreeBSD is too filesystem errors sensitive

2009-12-19 Thread Konrad Heuer
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, ïÌÅÇ ðÅÔÒÁÞ£× wrote: Konrad, Erik, thank you for the good advice. Several foreground fsck in a row really helped. Konrad, which hardware are you using with FreeBSD on heavily loaded and i/o-bound systems? One of these systems is a Dell PowerEdge 2650 with Qlogic ISP 2312

Re: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Reko Turja wrote: under Other Kernel: ZFS as default So anyone running 32bit or under 2Gb of memory don't need to bother with FreeBSD anymore after 9.0 RELEASE? Since when does changing the default action imply making the previous default impossible or even difficult? And since when does ad

open source program for showing six degrees

2009-12-19 Thread Noah
Hi list, Ive seen a nice app that takes pictures and shows how people are socially connected to one another and makes a Jpg. So I am looking for a similar app that takes this type of information and makes a GUI clickable webpage. Here is what i am looking to do. I want to have icons/pictures f

Re: question about building a custom kernel

2009-12-19 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/12/19 Jamie Griffin : > Hi > > I have been reading the handbook to learn about building a custom > kernel, but just wanted to ask something about gathering information > about my hardware before I give it a go. > > The handbook suggests the command: > > # pciconf -lv > > ...which I like becaus

Re: Yahoo! moving to Linux???

2009-12-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
Konrad Heuer wrote: Sorry, maybe I missed something .. When entering http://www.yahoo.de I find my request redirected to http://m.de.yahoo.com for some days now. Netcraft says: http://m.de.yahoo.com was running YTS on Linux when last queried at 19-Dec-2009 19:12:25 GMT - refresh now Site

Re: Yahoo! moving to Linux???

2009-12-19 Thread Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)
http://m.de.yahoo.com was running YTS on Linux when last queried at 19-Dec-2009 19:12:25 GMT - refresh now Site Report Hard to stand, I'd expect FreeBSD get replaced by Windows because of MS/Yahoo! agreement, but Linux?? Its possible the frontend loadbalancer/L4 switch is an A10 at Yahoo!, and

Yahoo! moving to Linux???

2009-12-19 Thread Konrad Heuer
Sorry, maybe I missed something .. When entering http://www.yahoo.de I find my request redirected to http://m.de.yahoo.com for some days now. Netcraft says: http://m.de.yahoo.com was running YTS on Linux when last queried at 19-Dec-2009 19:12:25 GMT - refresh now Site Report Hard to sta

Re: question about building a custom kernel

2009-12-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 04:13:09PM +, Jamie Griffin wrote: > The handbook suggests the command: > > # pciconf -lv > > On my system, this command does print out information for quite a few > components, I just wondered if this information is all I need to work > from or is it not an accurate

Re: question about building a custom kernel

2009-12-19 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 10:41:14AM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: > Can I ask for more details from you why you're interested in building > a custom kernel? > --TJ Thanks for the information Tim. I don't have a specific need to build a custom kernel at the moment, I really just want to learn how to do

Re: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread Reko Turja
under Other Kernel: ZFS as default So anyone running 32bit or under 2Gb of memory don't need to bother with FreeBSD anymore after 9.0 RELEASE? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-question

RE: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread peter harrison
-Original Message- From: Victor Lyapunov Sent: 19 December 2009 14:42 To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Any chance ZFS becoming default? Hi everybody, Sorry for asking dumb questions, but is there any chance zfs becoming default FS in FreeBSD? If so, how soon might this happen? Cheers,

Re: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread Ed Jobs
On Saturday 19 December 2009 16:42, Victor Lyapunov wrote: > Hi everybody, > Sorry for asking dumb questions, but is there any chance zfs becoming > default FS in FreeBSD? If so, how soon might this happen? > > Cheers, > Victor. As seen in http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD9 under Other Kernel: ZFS

Re: ET.UTF-8.out: Inappropriate ioctl for device (buildworld RELENG8)

2009-12-19 Thread Dimitry Andric
On 2009-12-19 15:42, Jeronimo Calvo wrote: > Hi folks, Im getting the following error when building world for > RELENG_8 using GENERIC. > Any ideas on how to skip that? > > ===> share/mklocale (all) > mklocale -o UTF-8.out /usr/src/share/mklocale/UTF-8.src > mklocale -o am_ET.UTF-8.out /usr/src/sh

Re: question about building a custom kernel

2009-12-19 Thread Tim Judd
On 12/19/09, Jamie Griffin wrote: > Hi > > I have been reading the handbook to learn about building a custom > kernel, but just wanted to ask something about gathering information > about my hardware before I give it a go. > > The handbook suggests the command: > > # pciconf -lv > > ...which I lik

Re: ezjail bsd 8.0

2009-12-19 Thread Dominik Ernst
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 12:44:51 - "Graeme Dargie" wrote: > I am trying to get ezjail running on bds 8.0 and I keep hitting the > same wall > > > > FreeBSD amalthea.galaxy.lan.lcl 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE #0: > Sat Nov 21 15:02:08 UTC 2009 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 > > >

Re: ntpq command output and unreachable state?

2009-12-19 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
I have used ntpq -c associations to see if the server is reachable or not. But even the peers are not reachable my ntpd answers to queries for some time and after recovering connection (reachable state) my ntpd doesn't answer to ntp clients even if ntpq -c peers states "*" state. But after certain

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-19 Thread Gary Kline
hello list, it looks as tho my mail to this last from friday night did not make it thru. this is yet-another test. here's hoping; sorry fot top-posting, but i will be Surprised if this really makes it . On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at

question about building a custom kernel

2009-12-19 Thread Jamie Griffin
Hi I have been reading the handbook to learn about building a custom kernel, but just wanted to ask something about gathering information about my hardware before I give it a go. The handbook suggests the command: # pciconf -lv ...which I like because it provides a clear list of components I

Re: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 20:42:27 +0600 Victor Lyapunov replied: >Hi everybody, >Sorry for asking dumb questions, but is there any chance zfs becoming >default FS in FreeBSD? If so, how soon might this happen? It appears that everyone is not as enthusiastic about it. http://www.neowin.net/news/main/

Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread Victor Lyapunov
Hi everybody, Sorry for asking dumb questions, but is there any chance zfs becoming default FS in FreeBSD? If so, how soon might this happen? Cheers, Victor. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

ET.UTF-8.out: Inappropriate ioctl for device (buildworld RELENG8)

2009-12-19 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Hi folks, Im getting the following error when building world for RELENG_8 using GENERIC. Any ideas on how to skip that? ===> share/mklocale (all) mklocale -o UTF-8.out /usr/src/share/mklocale/UTF-8.src mklocale -o am_ET.UTF-8.out /usr/src/share/mklocale/am_ET.UTF-8.src am_ET.UTF-8.out: Inappropria

Re: how to make vimage jail permanent by configuring rc.conf?

2009-12-19 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 18 December 2009 13:40:47 Kouichiro Iwao wrote: > I want to make it permanent. I want jails to start automatically when I > rebooted the host environment. I add the following lines into rc.conf. > > jail_jail01_flags="-c vnet" > jail_jail01_rootdir="/usr/jail/jail01" > jail_jail01_hostn

Re: System crashes under heavy disk i/o

2009-12-19 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 17 December 2009 12:57:30 Erik Norgaard wrote: > Mel Flynn wrote: > > Turn down operating mode via atacontrol. If using dump(8) use the cache > > feature and/or do the backup from live disk, so no other services are > > running and disk isn't accessed other then by dump. > > Thanks, is

Re: RFC: Fam/Python based script for bruteforce blocking

2009-12-19 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 17 December 2009 16:34:22 Brandon Low wrote: > I'd love to hear other people's feedback on this approach of using FAM + > auth.log to implement this and/or to hear of other superior approaches > to achieving this result. Well, my first problem with it is obviously that I now need pyth

request

2009-12-19 Thread akbar moradi
hello I live in iran and very intresting to download and use freebsd .I think it can provide me a good futeare of good os but my internet speed is very low and i can not download it directly from your server.but if you send the free bsd iso file to my email address i can download it from my ema

ntpq command output and unreachable state?

2009-12-19 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I am trying to understand output of ntpq -c peers (or ntpq -p). What I am trying to understand that when a ntp server is announced as unreachable. I have made a test. I setup a test ntp server with /etc/ntp.conf = restrict default nomodify notrap noquery restrict 127.0.0.1 server