Re: 3 TB disk troubles

2013-02-14 Thread Scott Bennett
ack to the store I bought it and ask them to demonstrate to me that it actually works for them as a 3 TB drive. Sigh. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ***

3 TB disk troubles

2013-02-14 Thread Scott Bennett
n any replies because I am subscribed to the digest form of this list and would like to see responses without having to wait up to 24 hours. :-) Thanks in advance for any help! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG,

Re: clang options question

2012-10-17 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 17 Oct 2012 04:25:14 +1100 andrew clarke wrote: >On Tue 2012-10-16 10:52:36 UTC-0500, Scott Bennett (benn...@cs.niu.edu) wrote: > >> From looking at the clang(1) man page, it is not clear to me what the >> difference is between the -arch option and the -mar

clang options question

2012-10-16 Thread Scott Bennett
From looking at the clang(1) man page, it is not clear to me what the difference is between the -arch option and the -march= option. Would someone please summarize the difference(s) for me? Thanks much! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: "portmaster --list-origins" question

2011-12-30 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 11:44:57 +0100 Christer Solskogen wrote: >On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 Did I misunderstand something about the --list-origins opti= >on? =C2=A0Or have >> I run into a bug? =C2=A0Any suggestions of how to pr

"portmaster --list-origins" question

2011-12-28 Thread Scott Bennett
ed that *all* installed ports would be listed. Did I misunderstand something about the --list-origins option? Or have I run into a bug? Any suggestions of how to proceed would be welcome. Thanks! Scott Benne

Re: Established method to enable suid scripts?

2011-05-19 Thread Scott Bennett
ipts. I do not know when the change was made in the kernel to block suid permission elevation on executable non-binaries (i.e., scripts). Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG **

[SOLVED] REPOST: Re: help requested in fixing disk label mistake

2011-01-28 Thread Scott Bennett
over sectors in s1d when newfs(8) had created the file system there, I began repeating the process just described. Eventually, on the fifteenth or sixteenth iteration, voila! The missing device files in /dev/label had suddenly reappeared. :-) I then immediately saved a copy of the corrected bsdlabe

REPOST: Re: help requested in fixing disk label mistake

2011-01-25 Thread Scott Bennett
ector of the partition)? Or is my hypothesis >stated above actually incorrect, and if so, why/how? > PLEASE send any replies to ME DIRECTLY (or at least Cc: me directly) >because I receive this list in digest form and am at least a wee

Re: help requested in fixing disk label mistake

2011-01-22 Thread Scott Bennett
DIRECTLY (or at least Cc: me directly) >because I receive this list in digest form and am at least a week and a half >behind on my reading. :-} Thanks much in advance for any helpful ideas.

help requested in fixing disk label mistake

2011-01-22 Thread Scott Bennett
in digest form and am at least a week and a half behind on my reading. :-} Thanks much in advance for any helpful ideas. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet:

Re: Cache Memory in top command

2010-10-07 Thread Scott Bennett
/page * 262 * 1024 * 1024 pages) or 1048 GB, which I suspect is rather more than FreeBSD kernels currently support, especially in i386, which is what my system is running.

Re: looking for a buildable version of OpenOffice.org

2010-08-09 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 12:25:58 +0100 Chris Whitehouse wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:27:49 -0400 Michael Powell >> >> wrote: >>> Scott Bennett wrote: >>> >>>> I have tried all of the versions of OpenOffice

Re: looking for a buildable version of OpenOffice.org

2010-08-09 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 05 Aug 2010 00:36:32 -0700 per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > >> No packages appear to be available for these ports. > >As of a week or so ago, freebsd.org (and presumably at least some of >the mirrors) had openoffice.org-2.4.3_2.tbz among

Re: looking for a buildable version of OpenOffice.org

2010-08-04 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 4 Aug 2010 09:59:52 -0400 Jerry McAllister wrote: >On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 02:00:00AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> I have tried all of the versions of OpenOffice.org that are currently >> in the ports tree on a 7.3-STABLE system, and all of the

Re: looking for a buildable version of OpenOffice.org

2010-08-04 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:27:49 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > >> I have tried all of the versions of OpenOffice.org that are currently >> in the ports tree on a 7.3-STABLE system, and all of them fail to build to >> completion. Is there somew

looking for a buildable version of OpenOffice.org

2010-08-04 Thread Scott Bennett
7.3-STABLE system? No packages appear to be available for these ports. (Transcripts of the failed builds are available on request.) And what would be available if I were to upgrade my system to 8.1-STABLE? Thanks in advance for any help! Scott Bennett

Re: Sendmail Five Second Greeting Delay

2010-04-06 Thread Scott Bennett
gt; >That, and the fact that the ident protocol is utterly pointless -- it's >trivially easy for a server to lie about the owner of the other end of a >TCP connection. In fact, doing that is a standard part of the >

Re: Objective-C 2.0 on FreeBSD; garbage collection, anyone?

2010-03-11 Thread Scott Bennett
t;GarbageObj *obj = [[GarbageObj alloc] init]; >[obj foo]; >if (inx == 10) { > inx = 0; > sleep(1); >} > } > return 0; >} > > > >Unfortunately the memory usage i

Re: Screen saver hangs: can't retrieve user sessions

2010-02-07 Thread Scott Bennett
U. It would indeed be good to have an easy way to recover without rebooting, e.g., using the F11 or F12 key as a way to run some command that could reinitialize the GPU. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations

2010-01-22 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 10:31:22 +0100 Roland Smith wrote: >On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 12:38:14AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> >2) Create the geli device /dev/daXsYP.eli, and then create a label on th= >at, >> > yielding /dev/label/bar. [not sure what the utility

Re: GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations

2010-01-15 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 23:18:40 +0100 Roland Smith wrote: >On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 01:25:50AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >>=20 >> It has been a long time since I created those GELI partitions, but I >> think I used the "geli init -K keyfilename /dev/daXsYP&quo

Re: GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations

2010-01-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:42:32 +0100 Roland Smith >On Thu, Jan 14, 2010 at 01:31:55AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> I used "glabel label" to label each of the file systems I have on ex= >ternal >> disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to &q

Re: GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations

2010-01-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:30:00 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> I used "glabel label" to label each of the file systems I have on >> external >> disk drives. Unfortunately, afterward I am now unable to "geli attach" any >&

Re: GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations

2010-01-14 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 10:55:35 +0300 Boris Samorodov wrote: Thanks so much for responding so fast! >On Thu, 14 Jan 2010 01:31:55 -0600 (CST) Scott Bennett wrote: > >> hellas# geli attach -k work.key /dev/label/work >> geli: Cannot read metadata from /dev/label/work

GELI file systems unusable after "glabel label" operations

2010-01-13 Thread Scott Bennett
g further time on it. Thanks much. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *--

Re: "glabel label" questions

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 11 Jan 2010 12:24:47 + krad wrote: >2010/1/11 Scott Bennett > >> My system currently has three external disk drives connected via USB >> 2.0 >> ports and will soon have another drive connected via a Firewire port. The >> three already present

"glabel label" questions

2010-01-11 Thread Scott Bennett
Or will I need to recreate the file systems after labeling the partitions and then restore their contents from backups? Is there any danger to unencrypted partitions and data when using the "glabel label" operation? Thanks in advance for any help with this matter.

Re: questions about superpages

2009-12-29 Thread Scott Bennett
nts close to the >promotion thresshold. If someone who knows can also point me toward the >place that these values appear in the source code, I'd appreciate that, too. > Thanks in advance!

questions about superpages

2009-12-29 Thread Scott Bennett
appreciate that, too. Thanks in advance! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennet

Re: Mutt and openssl from port

2009-12-12 Thread Scott Bennett
SSLBASE} --sysconfdir=${PREFIX}/etc \ >+ --with-ssl=/usr/local --sysconfdir=${PREFIX}/etc \ > >but got the same. I suppose that OPENSSL_OVERWRITE_BASE doesn't work: >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-Nove

Re: GPUs on FBSD?

2009-11-22 Thread Scott Bennett
ich compilers, etc. might be written for the GPGPUs of both of the major GPU manufacturers. So if you're waiting for OpenCL for FreeBSD, don't hold your breath, stand on narrow ledges far above ground, and so fort

math/atlas-devel build times (was Re: math/py-numpy vs. math/atlas-devel)

2009-11-09 Thread Scott Bennett
physical CPUs, so it's difficult to see how its cache management in a HT environment could be any better than FreeBSD's. Maybe LINUX has been updated to understand five-year-old technology since I last checked, but that still should only make it closer to FreeBSD's performance, not r

Re: math/py-numpy vs. math/atlas-devel

2009-11-09 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 20:26:15 + "b. f." wrote: >On 11/9/09, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:59:29 -0800 Doug Barton >> wrote: > >... > >> Anyway, the math/py-numpy port now proceeds to build without bothering >> wi

Re: math/py-numpy vs. math/atlas-devel

2009-11-09 Thread Scott Bennett
;apparently they should be. maho, if you need any help with this let me >know. I've left the Cc in as well because IIRC, Maho was heavily involved in the upgrade of immense numbers of ports to gfortran42. The next obstacle in math/py-numpy outlined further below may well be a missed re

math/py-numpy vs. math/atlas-devel

2009-11-07 Thread Scott Bennett
vent portmaster from trying to build math/atlas. Creating a /var/db/pkg/atlas-3.8.3_1,1/+IGNOREME file in addition doesn't help. How can I force math/py-numpy to accept the already installed math/atlas-devel libraries? Thanks in advance for any help! Sc

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Bennett
the old-fashioned method handled any accumulated patches properly, then I think the only problem is in portmaster, rather than lang/gcc4[34]. What, in particular, about those two ports caused portmaster to screw up remains to be determined. Scott

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:07:09 + "b. f." wrote: >On 10/29/09, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:19:08 + "b. f." >> wrote: >>>On 10/28/09, Scott Bennett wrote: >>>> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:

Re: math/arpack patch.tar.gz timestamp differs between ports and freebsd.org

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Bennett
s can lie. After manually deleting the file per your suggestion, math/arpack installed just fine. Thank you very much! math/octave is now compiling as I write this. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG *

math/arpack patch.tar.gz timestamp differs between ports and freebsd.org

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Bennett
ror code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/math/arpack. 0.359u 0.158s 0:03.81 13.1% 174+849k 12+0io 0pf+0w hellas# exit exit Script done on Thu Oct 29 03:19:31 2009 Any helpful suggestions out there? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG **

VirtualBox kernel module messages

2009-10-29 Thread Scott Bennett
ppDev=0xe8561948 Oct 29 03:07:03 hellas kernel: VBoxDrvFreeBSDClone: pszName=pts ppDev=0xe86d4a14 As you can see, there is some repetition and some variation. Can anyone tell me what these messages mean and how they might best be stopped? Thanks much!

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:19:08 + "b. f." wrote: >On 10/28/09, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:28:51 + "b. f." >> wrote: >>>Scott Bennet wrote: >... >> >> With one exception, I do not alter the >

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
goals but retained Sendmail as the default >MTA "for historical reasons". > >Sorry .. but that's the way it goes every time someone asks the same >question. > And George Santayana's famous dictum may well apply even in this case. :)

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:32:21 -0400 Michael Powell wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > > >>>> Alexander Best wrote: >>>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>>>> i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: >>>>> >&

Re: lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-28 Thread Scott Bennett
what to do if a situation arises like this for a port that has many dependencies that would typically be better managed by portmaster or portupgrade, however. I guess next I'll try running portmaster as shown above and see what else migh

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-27 Thread Scott Bennett
abs: "Behavior" and "Cookies". The "Behavior" tab is the one you want. You should be able to figure out what to do from there, but basically you can identify a site by host

lang/gcc43 and lang/gcc44 installation procedures broken after updates

2009-10-26 Thread Scott Bennett
2/libjava' gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/lang/gcc43/work/build' 2 errors ===>>> A backup package for gcc-4.3.5.20090913 should be located in /usr/ports/packages/portmaster-backup ===>>> Installation of gcc-4.3.5.20091004 (lang/gcc43) failed ===>>&g

Re: I hate to bitch but bitch I must

2009-10-18 Thread Scott Bennett
roblem is simply the failure of the OP to read the section title, which clearly says, "BUGS". Now please, all of you, stop spamming the list with all this nonsense. The very first respondent could well have pointed out the problem, and that would have been the end of

When is it worth enabling hyperthreading?

2009-10-09 Thread Scott Bennett
t, but the slight improvement is sometimes apparent. Also, when running Windows XP, having hyperthreading enabled has allowed me to get out from under some runaway, single-threaded process, even though doing so can take a while because the runaway process does compete vigorously for the shared resour

Re: /sys/modules/mii/nsgphy.c compilation errors

2009-09-24 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:22:40 -0400 Lowell Gilbert wrote: >Scott Bennett writes: > >> An update committed since Friday appears to have broken mii/nsgphy.c >> in the kernel. When I try to build a kernel now, I get the following errors >> during the comp

/sys/modules/mii/nsgphy.c compilation errors

2009-09-22 Thread Scott Bennett
tried again to build a kernel, I see that the errors persist. Is this something that someone is already fixing? Or should I try to submit a PR? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Intern

building emulators/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902 fails in kBuild

2009-09-15 Thread Scott Bennett
this. I haven't rebooted in the last 25 days, so I'm sure I haven't done a "make buildworld && mergemaster -p && make installworld && mergemaster && reboot" during that time. Would doing t

Re: cc -march questions

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Bennett
On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 10:28:09 -0400 Daniel Molina Wegener wrote: >2009/9/3 Scott Bennett > >> What exactly does "cc -march=prescott" enable cc to do? Does it >> include >> instruction scheduling for the pipeline structure of the Prescott CPUs? >>

cc -march questions

2009-09-03 Thread Scott Bennett
rmation on the above! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * ** * "A well

Re: graphics/ImageMagick seemingly not using OpenMP

2009-08-11 Thread Scott Bennett
ed with it. Have you tried nm(1)? Unless the symbols were removed via strip(1), nm(1) should be able to extract an external symbol dictionary from the ImageMagick binary. You can then search through that for OpenMP

Re: Learning about Control of Optimization -- for dummies please

2009-08-05 Thread Scott Bennett
work. If you don't know what you are doing, do not use >COPTFLAGS and stick with the defaults that the build system generates. > Right. -O3 might royally screw a kernel in particular. :-) Scott Bennett, Comm

today's cvsup introduces kernel build error

2009-07-30 Thread Scott Bennett
st for member 'max_iosize' in something not a structure or union *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/hellas. hellas# Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG **

ULE and Prescott question

2009-07-22 Thread Scott Bennett
n the ULE scheduler and the 4BSD scheduler? Or does the fact that there is only one core eliminate any difference in performance characteristics? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Int

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-25 Thread Scott Bennett
ed to be runnable in the immediate future, e.g., much sooner than a hypothetical process that has been swapped out could be made runnable. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: benne

Re: How can this 'top' command output make sense? Load over 7 and total CPU use ~5%

2009-05-24 Thread Scott Bennett
um of the lengths of the run queue and of the short-term sleep queue over the previous 1-minute interval of system operation." Seems pretty straightforward to me. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG *

Re: will Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA ever be supported?

2009-05-22 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:19 +0200 Pieter de Goeje wrote: >On Thursday 21 May 2009 12:11:27 Scott Bennett wrote: >> Looking at the release notes for 7.2-RELEASE, I still don't see any >> mention of support for the Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA card. Do any >&

will Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS PCMCIA ever be supported?

2009-05-21 Thread Scott Bennett
ven't seen any news other than "No, there's no driver support for in in FreeBSD [67].x". Thanks in advance for any information on this matter. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ***

Re: My FreeBSD-current/Xen install notes

2009-05-19 Thread Scott Bennett
t a stable NetBSD dom0 implementation > would then be ported to FreeBSD (maybe) ? > If you just need versatile emulation for i386- amd64-based software and not necessarily Xen, you might check the threads in -ports@ during the last week or two about Sun's Virt

ifconfig ndis0 up scan doesn't find my ap

2009-04-13 Thread Scott Bennett
uot;, and the rest of the options are ignored. If I do # ifconfig ndis0 up # ifconfig ndis0 [rest of options] all is well. That means, of course, that I end up having to do it manually because the stuff in /etc/rc.d doesn't handle more than one ifconfig

Re: swap_pager complaints but not using swap

2009-01-25 Thread Scott Bennett
, but I don't know any of its details. In general, disksort() gives pretty good performance. I doubt that the current algorithm is the source of your problems, but if it is, then perhaps moving swap to sit between the two most active file sys

ACPI suspend/resume on RELENG_7 vs. Dell Inspiron XPS

2008-11-18 Thread Scott Bennett
spend/resume, etc.). Does anyone know whether this will finally work right under RELENG_7 (especially 7.1-RELEASE)? Thanks in advance for any information on this matter. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG,

pf vs. RST attack question

2008-10-05 Thread Scott Bennett
o not want to reject legitimate RST packets. Thanks in advance for any clues! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.ni

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-22 Thread Scott Bennett
On Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:28:05 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 09:19:40AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:25:19 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >On Sun,

Re: looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-21 Thread Scott Bennett
On Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:25:19 -0400 Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 07:00:39AM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: > >> I would like to find a disk partition ("slice" in FreeBSD nomenclature) >> editor that runs under FreeBSD

looking for a disk partition ("slice") editor

2008-09-21 Thread Scott Bennett
plies, too.) Thanks much! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *

pf question

2008-09-08 Thread Scott Bennett
directly as well as to the list. Thanks much! Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * **

Re: Monitoring CPU temperature: mbmon shows 201 degrees C

2008-07-21 Thread Scott Bennett
9.5 C. After replacing two of the three fans and blowing out visible dust, the temperatures were reduced by about 15-18 C. Replacing the third fan brought the temperatures down another 2-3 C. Blowing the dust out of the cooling vanes brought them down anoth

Re: Core(TM)2 Quad and TOP output

2008-07-15 Thread Scott Bennett
ompile/SMP # make cleandepend && make depend && make && make install # shutdown -r now That should take care of it for you. /sys/{i386,amd64}/conf/SMP adds "options SMP" and then includes GENERIC.

Re: xorg and radeon, widescreen

2008-04-08 Thread Scott Bennett
>Viewport 0 0 >Depth 15 >EndSubSection >SubSection "Display" >Viewport 0 0 >Depth 16 >EndSubSection >SubSection "Display" > Viewport 0 0 >Depth

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Bennett
Sorry about the delay in my response. I got tied up in lots of unrelated matters for several days. On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 21:55:43 +0100 Dominic Fandrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: >> Now that I've upgraded to X.org 7.3, I'm wish

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Bennett
the case as long as I've been running FreeBSD (i.e., since 5.2.1) and is not new to 6.3. > >The only problem I'm having since 7.3 btw (I forgot about that, but just >remembered) is everytime I start nethack-qt (either local or remote) X >restarts, k

Re: X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Bennett
he cursor into the window and wait a few seconds to see what happens before pressing a button. > >This is really becoming a big PITA. > I concur. Since the "upgrade"--do

Xorg crashing randomly

2008-03-24 Thread Scott Bennett
screen saver routines are the only ones I know do it for certain. Firefox 2.x under X.org 7.3 gets an impenetrable hang, not a crash. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG,

X.org 7.3 sure is a mess...

2008-03-18 Thread Scott Bennett
ade, and for this?? Pardon my frustration, please. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Interne

Re: X.org 7.3 fails during startup, claiming font not found

2008-03-17 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:04:10 + "Brad Pitney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Scott Bennett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [..] >> Fatal server error: >> could not open default font 'fixed' >>

X.org 7.3 fails during startup, claiming font not found

2008-03-17 Thread Scott Bennett
where to find the font that X is looking for? And then, how and where do I install the font? /usr/local/lib/X11/fonts contains no files with names containing the string "fixed", but I know so little about the internals of X that I don't know whether the reference to a default fon

SMP interrupt problem

2008-02-22 Thread Scott Bennett
0% g_up > >If anyone has an idea what the problem is I would be grateful for any advice. > You deleted part of the startup messages, so we can't see what you have at IRQ 9. Go back and look at either dmesg(1) output or /var/log/messages to find

Re: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE

2008-02-13 Thread Scott Bennett
On Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:58:01 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 12:59:41AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> >> % cat show >> >> #! /bin/csh >> >> set delay=3D3D2 >> >> set pixlist=3D3D(09 08 07 05 04 03

Re: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE

2008-02-12 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:51:41 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:46:56PM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:01:26 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 0

Re: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE

2008-02-12 Thread Scott Bennett
ch a panic and get a backtrace if there's any. > Well, that's a hardware "feature" I can't change. AFAIK, it's stuck at 512 bytes/sector on the drive in question. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

Re: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE

2008-02-12 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 15:16:59 +0100 Ivan Voras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Scott Bennett wrote: > >> It does it every time, so it is certainly repeatable. Is this a >> known problem? Or is there some feature of GELI-encrypted file systems >> that is exp

Re: /bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE

2008-02-12 Thread Scott Bennett
On Tue, 12 Feb 2008 16:01:26 +0100 Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 08:02:49AM -0600, Scott Bennett wrote: >> I just set up a GELI partition for the first time a while ago (not >> counting the swap partition). After initializing

/bin/csh script in GELI partition crashes 6.3-STABLE

2008-02-12 Thread Scott Bennett
ust a few minutes, I decided I had had enough of that for one night.) If anyone has seen this happen before, please let me know. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: benne

Re: unix domain socket security and PID retrieval

2008-02-04 Thread Scott Bennett
> >Any suggestions on where I should begin to look? Sure. Take a look at the man pages for fork(2), vfork(2), and fork(3f). > >As it currently stands, I am looking at doing this with perl. In that case, take a look at perlfork(1), too.

gencat error messages during 6.3-STABLE buildworld

2008-01-25 Thread Scott Bennett
e id on line 7324 d9 1 ^ gencat: neither blank line nor start of a message id on line 7325 a9 1 ^ gencat: neither blank line nor start of a message id on line 7327 @ ^ ===> bin/date (all) cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -march=prescott -Wsystem-headers -Werror -Wall -Wno-format-y2k -W -Wno-unu

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 200, Issue 60

2008-01-24 Thread Scott Bennett
m very glad that they feel this way. >> > >Again, there's absolutely nothing wrong with that *so long as* you are >fully willing to suffer the consequences. As with Rosa Parks, you may >succeed in illustrating how unfair the

Re: FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE build error

2007-12-03 Thread Scott Bennett
jn, where n is the maximum number of parallel jobs you wish to run, try running it without that option. If you haven't been running it that way, then I apologize for the noise. :-) Note that the above applies to the buildwo

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 196, Issue 38

2007-11-10 Thread Scott Bennett
on the server's needs. The router draws almost no current, probably far less than the UPS itself does when the line power has failed. Buy a minimal capacity UPS for the router, switches, etc. It will probably be able to keep them running for many hours, likely even days, during a power failure.

mbr on second drive.

2007-07-06 Thread Scott Bennett
ntioned above as >a second drive on the machine. The first drive is a ATA and the second >(broken) is a SCSI. > Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu

Re: Sendmail ignores hosts.allow

2007-05-22 Thread Scott Bennett
nly* that the /etc/hosts.{allow,deny} files should have any effect whatsoever upon whether incoming connections are handled by sendmail. N.B. even in this case, it is tcpd reading those files and making the decisions, *not*

Re: ATI Radeon 9600xt (256MB DDR) on FreeBSD 6.2 ; solved?

2007-05-14 Thread Scott Bennett
s added to the kernel configuration, though 6.2 doesn't seem to need them. device drm device radeondrm I don't recall whether you stated which version of FreeBSD you were using. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ***

Re: annoying problems after upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-04-27 Thread Scott Bennett
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:38:31 -0400 quoth Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >--9jxsPFA5p3P2qPhR >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii >Content-Disposition: inline >Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:30:20PM -0500, Scott B

Re: annoying problems after upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Bennett
ansfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > >On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:51:50PM -0500, Scott Bennett wrote: >> I've encountered three annoying problems since doing the upgrade from >> 6.1-RELEASE to 6.2-RELEASE using the upgrade option when booting from the >> installation

annoying problems after upgrading to 6.2-RELEASE

2007-04-26 Thread Scott Bennett
me a way to fix the third one. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks muchly in advance. Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG

need to get updates, packages, ports, etc. via Windows XP wireless

2006-11-07 Thread Scott Bennett
t I can try to make 6.1 useful? Scott Bennett, Comm. ASMELG, CFIAG ** * Internet: bennett at cs.niu.edu * *---

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