Should I increase vfs.read_max

2005-10-15 Thread Deepak Naidu
Hi, I am running FreeBSD 5.4 on SunFire v20 on single hard disk 73 GB... I googled down some links regarding increasing IO performance. It said increase vfs.read_max from 8 to 16. I have done that, but cant justify any improvement, as I am running mailserver(spam checker). Should I revert t

promise sx6000 on 4.11-RELEASE-p12

2005-10-15 Thread sergey akifiev
i have installed promise sx6000 card on my FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE-p12 box. then i have created raid5 array of 5x250GB WD hard drives. in dmesg i see: pstpci0: mem 0xdc00-0xdfff irq 5 at device 3.1 on pci2 pst0: 953900MB [121605/255/63] on pstpci0 (i noted, that geometry, supplied by card's

Re: su - does not ask for password

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/15/05, Teo De Las Heras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That worked! I thought I remembered giving root a password!? So, if > you don't have a password set, one is not asked for? > > Teo > Quite so. You should never ever leave root password blank. In fact, FreeBSD as an OS and many programs t

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:08:31PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 10/12/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights, > > > > First, both environments do work on my 400Mhz ThinkPad > > (with almost 300M/SDRAM). KDE has a ni

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/15/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:08:31PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > On 10/12/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights, > > > > > > First, both environments do work on my 400Mhz

Re: FreeBSD routing

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/15/05, Bob Hepple <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello! > > I'm new to FreeBSD (5.3) and trying to make the transition from Linux. One > thing that has me stumped is a routing question... it must be something > really simple because I can do it all the time in Linux. > > I just want to add an a

Re: Should I increase vfs.read_max

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/15/05, Deepak Naidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I am running FreeBSD 5.4 on SunFire v20 on single > hard disk 73 GB... > > I googled down some links regarding increasing IO > performance. It said increase vfs.read_max from 8 to > 16. I have done that, but cant justify any > impro

Re: Contact Management Software

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/14/05, Mark Kane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everyone. I have a co-worker who wants to get away from Windows as > much as possible. I've told him about free and open source alternatives > for everything else he needs to do, but contact management is something > I'm having problems with. >

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Glyn Millington
Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'll give xfce a try. Again. I played with it months ago > but gave up on it after a few days. Can I run all KDE-ware > and Gnome suites too? Hi Gary, I'm running Xfce4 over here on Slackware, and there are no problems firing up KDE

Re: Burning DVDs

2005-10-15 Thread edward
Hi albi, Mark, Robert and Paul, I followed albi's advice and rebuilt the kernel with a scsi emulator. Works perfect. Thanks for your help, guys. Edward ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

problem compiling jdk14

2005-10-15 Thread Filippo Moretti
I ran inthe following error while attempint to upgrade sun-jdk14 on 5.4-stable i386 architecture /bsd_i486/vm -I../generated -DHOTSPOT_BUILD_VERSION="\"1.4.2-p7-filippo_14_oct_2005_15_44\"" Compiling /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/functionAtStart.cpp Compiling /usr/port

Re: Should I increase vfs.read_max

2005-10-15 Thread Deepak Naidu
--- "Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/15/05, Deepak Naidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > I am running FreeBSD 5.4 on SunFire v20 on > single > > hard disk 73 GB... > > > > I googled down some links regarding increasing IO > > performance. It said increase vfs.read_max

Re: Should I increase vfs.read_max

2005-10-15 Thread Deepak Naidu
Thanx Andrew, Could u provide some details, where can I obtain 6.0, stable or what ever the updated release is there for 6.0. The exact ISO download location. Bcos, I am always confused which one of 6.0 is perfect or good. If at all I am upgrading, how should I do. Thanx again fo

Problem with modem Zyxel OMNI PCI in FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

2005-10-15 Thread ZeroCool
Hi all How use this modem in FreeBSD I have read HandBook, as well as HARDWARE.TXT on Install CD, but don't find necessary information. I will be grateful for the help ! Sukharew Andrew System Administrator State institution "Research of Yamal" Tel.(work) +7(34922)7-16-05 (Internal)

Re: p7zip 4.20 -> 4.29

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/15/05, Sergey Matveychuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrew P. wrote: > > archivers/p7zip: > > 4.20 -> 4.29 > > Already in ports tree for a week. > Use http://www.freshports.org to see ports updates. > -- > Sem. > > http://www.freshports.org/archivers/p7zip/ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvswe

Re: p7zip 4.20 -> 4.29

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/15/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/15/05, Sergey Matveychuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Andrew P. wrote: > > > archivers/p7zip: > > > 4.20 -> 4.29 > > > > Already in ports tree for a week. > > Use http://www.freshports.org to see ports updates. > > -- > > Sem. > > > > > >

Re: p7zip 4.20 -> 4.29

2005-10-15 Thread Sergey Matveychuk
Andrew P. wrote: Last update was 4 months ago, wake up already :-) Yes, it's my mistake. I remember I've checked the port update but forget I still not commit it because of problems with build. -- Sem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Should I increase vfs.read_max

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/15/05, Deepak Naidu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanx Andrew, > > Could u provide some details, where can I > obtain 6.0, stable or what ever the updated release is > there for 6.0. The exact ISO download location. > > Bcos, I am always confused which one of 6.0 is perfect > or

Re: Should I increase vfs.read_max

2005-10-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 15), Deepak Naidu said: > Hi, > I am running FreeBSD 5.4 on SunFire v20 on single > hard disk 73 GB... > > I googled down some links regarding increasing IO > performance. It said increase vfs.read_max from 8 to > 16. I have done that, but cant justify any > improvem

Re: 2 keyboards, 2 mice, 2 monitors with 1 PC; possible?

2005-10-15 Thread Micah
John Oxley wrote: On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:53:54PM -0700, Micah wrote: Rob wrote: xorg supports dual-head, which could be a starting point. crw--- 1 root wheel3, 63 Sep 11 15:52 /dev/kbd0 crw--- 1 root wheel3, 195 Sep 11 15:52 /dev/kbd1 crw--- 1 root wheel3,

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-14 21:08, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use KDE on my fast systems and XFCE on the slow ones. Hehe! I tend to use XFCE even on my fast ones :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic

2005-10-15 Thread Philip Keuleers
Hi, I'm looking for some help with a problem I've been having with a Dell D600 with a FreeBSD 5.2.1 install. A while ago I started getting network timeouts. In my message logs I found entries like this: Oct 10 14:35:04 loki kernel: bge0: PHY read timed out Oct 10 14:35:04 loki last message re

Samba File Transfer Causes Lockup

2005-10-15 Thread Brian Watt
Hello, This is my first post to the mailing list, I'll try not to do too many annoying things :-) I'm having an issue when transferring large files (~350 MB) from a Windows XP machine to a Samba share on a FreeBSD server. The transfer starts fine and then after a few minutes, Windows shows that t

3c905C: very high system/interrupt CPU usage

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Schuller
Hello, I have a machine here with a couple of 3c905C:s in it. For some reason, network activity causes very high amounts of system and interrupt CPU usage. By "very high" i mean more than 50% interrupt, and more than 25% system usage. It is not just a measuring issue either, because the whole rea

Re: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic

2005-10-15 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:15:26 AM, Philip Keuleers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic Wrote these words of wisdom: > Hi, > > I'm looking for some help with a problem I've been having with a Dell > D600 with a FreeBSD 5.2.1 install. A while

Re: Samba File Transfer Causes Lockup

2005-10-15 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:19:49 AM, Brian Watt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Samba File Transfer Causes Lockup Wrote these words of wisdom: > Hello, > > This is my first post to the mailing list, I'll try not to do too many > annoying things :-) > > I'm having an issue when transferring la

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:06:30 +0400 "Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Many FreeBSD users came to love Fluxbox. It's > a windowmaker-based manager, very nice, very > lightweight. It's not an environment, so there are > no file managers, viewers, keyrings, etc. included. > But it has some supp

Gathering statistics on disk usage

2005-10-15 Thread Josh Paetzel
I am trying to set up mrtg to graph disk usage. I've tried using the output of iostat to provide me with usage in MB/s. The problem with this is that moving data from disk to disk on the system causes the usage to jump to around 30MB/s. Even with mrtg configured to draw the graphs logarithmi

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:57:10 -0700 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'll give xfce a try. Again. I played with it months ago > but gave up on it after a few days. Can I run all KDE-ware > and Gnome suites too? Yeah, it will work. Gnome and KDE just use plain old X fo

Re: 3c905C: very high system/interrupt CPU usage

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Schuller
I should add that this is currently on RELENG_6_0, but the situations has been the same for a long time. At least as far back as 5.3, but I believe "forever" (meaning probably 5.1 or so for this machine, I am not sure). -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Pet

Re: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic

2005-10-15 Thread Philip Keuleers
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:15:26 AM, Philip Keuleers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic Wrote these words of wisdom: Hi, I'm looking for some help with a problem I've been having with a Dell D600 with a FreeBSD 5.

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/15/05, Vulpes Velox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:06:30 +0400 > "Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Many FreeBSD users came to love Fluxbox. It's > > a windowmaker-based manager, very nice, very > > lightweight. It's not an environment, so there are > > no file

Re: su - does not ask for password

2005-10-15 Thread Teo De Las Heras
That's exactly why I just assumed that I had set a password for root...I didn't think it was possible to not have a password set. Teo On 10/15/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/15/05, Teo De Las Heras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That worked! I thought I remembered giving root

Install FreeBSD, and put the disk in a other computer...

2005-10-15 Thread Mikael Syska
Hi, Just wanted to know if there are any problem in installing FreeBSD in one computer and then take the disk and put it in a other computer? I want the setup the new system first, before taking the old down, but its the same computer thats suppose to run the new system. I have a spare comput

Re: Gathering statistics on disk usage

2005-10-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 15), Josh Paetzel said: > I am trying to set up mrtg to graph disk usage. I've tried using the > output of iostat to provide me with usage in MB/s. The problem with > this is that moving data from disk to disk on the system causes the > usage to jump to around 30MB/s. Ev

Re: Install FreeBSD, and put the disk in a other computer...

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Schuller
> Except for system dependent kernel options, are there any thing that I > should be aware of? The logical position of the drive in question might affect the boot process (e.g., moving the system from a secondary slave position, with another drive as secondary master, to another system where it i

Re: su - does not ask for password

2005-10-15 Thread Kris Anderson
Teo, If you check your log files you may see something in there about passwordless accounts. :) ~Mr. Anderson --- Teo De Las Heras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's exactly why I just assumed that I had set a > password for root...I > didn't think it was possible to not have a password > set.

Re: Gathering statistics on disk usage

2005-10-15 Thread Josh Paetzel
> If you apply the patch at > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/68840, you will be > able to get %busy stats out of iostat. > Thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunately your patch does not apply cleanly to a 4.11-STABLE box. I can supply iostat.c.rej if you want it. I also tried

theme ports

2005-10-15 Thread eoghan
Hello Im having some troulbe loading a theme from a port i have installed. I installed the baghira theme from the x11-theme ports and everything went smooth. But I dont see it from control centre. I did the make search key=kde | grep Path and it is there for kde (which is what im using).

Re[2]: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic

2005-10-15 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:51:26 AM, Philip Keuleers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic Wrote these words of wisdom: > Gerard Seibert wrote: > > >On Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:15:26 AM, Philip Keuleers <[EMAIL > >PROTECTED]> > >Subject

kern_fork.c

2005-10-15 Thread tethys ocean
Hi all, My server messages log is on below and also cant login by root error: fork: resource temporarily unavalible mail1 kernel: kern.maxfiles limit exceeded by uid 87, please see tunning (7) mail1 kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 0, please see tuning (7) and login.conf what can I do? ___

Re: Gathering statistics on disk usage

2005-10-15 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Oct 15), Josh Paetzel said: > > If you apply the patch at > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/68840, you will be > > able to get %busy stats out of iostat. > > Thanks for your quick reply. Unfortunately your patch does not apply > cleanly to a 4.11-STABLE box.

portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Matulis
What is the use of specifying the 'r' switch when using the 'a' switch? # portupgrade -ar This says to upgrade all ports plus the ones that depend on all those ports. Am I missing something? Wouldn't "the ones that depend" be upgraded anyway? I understand the reasoning behind using the 'R' swi

Re: Help Understanding While Loop

2005-10-15 Thread Jan Grant
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Will Maier wrote: > > count = $(( count + 1 )) > ^^^ > > You're missing something here ;) Actually, you don't need the leading "$". With it, you'll get variable interpolation, which'll normally do the same thing. Once the expression has been interpolated, it'

Re: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic

2005-10-15 Thread Alan Gerber
Gerard Seibert wrote: On Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:51:26 AM, Philip Keuleers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic Wrote these words of wisdom: Gerard Seibert wrote: On Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:15:26 AM, Philip Keuleers <[EMAI

Re: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Jan Grant
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Peter Matulis wrote: > What is the use of specifying the 'r' switch when using the 'a' > switch? > > # portupgrade -ar > > This says to upgrade all ports plus the ones that depend on all > those ports. Am I missing something? Wouldn't "the ones that > depend" be upgraded a

Re: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic

2005-10-15 Thread Philip Keuleers
Alan Gerber wrote: Gerard Seibert wrote: On Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:51:26 AM, Philip Keuleers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: bizar problem with a Dell latitude D600's onboard nic Wrote these words of wisdom: Gerard Seibert wrote: On Saturday, October 15, 2005 11:15:26 AM,

Re[2]: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Gerard Seibert
On Saturday, October 15, 2005 2:32:25 PM, Jan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: portupgrade -ar (why?) Wrote these words of wisdom: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Peter Matulis wrote: > > > What is the use of specifying the 'r' switch when using the 'a' > > switch? > > > > # portupgrade -ar > > >

Re: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Jan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Peter Matulis wrote: > > > What is the use of specifying the 'r' switch when using the 'a' > > switch? > > > > # portupgrade -ar > > > > This says to upgrade all ports plus the ones that depend on all > > those ports. Am I missin

Gentoo and FreeBSD

2005-10-15 Thread Sean
I came across the Gentoo/FreeBSD project at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-freebsd.xml A description states What is Gentoo/FreeBSD? Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term goal of the Gentoo/BSD pro

Is rcorder working under /usr/local/etc/rc.d?

2005-10-15 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
I am getting all these "no provider" and rcorder doesn't seem to work properly under /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Services seem to start alphabetically and not in the right order specified. The keywords REQUIRE, PROVIDE, BEFORE and KEYWORD seem to be ignored. Services like SERVERS, NETWORKING, LOGIN, etc,

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:36:32 -0700 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights, > > First, both environments do work on my 400Mhz ThinkPad > (with almost 300M/SDRAM). KDE has a nicer feel for my > tastes but the response in beyond crumm

Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD

2005-10-15 Thread Tom Norris
Sean wrote: Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term goal of the Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any combination of *BSD or Linux kernels, *BSD or GNU libc, and *BSD or GNU userland tools.

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 12:06:30PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/15/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:08:31PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: > > > On 10/12/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights

Re: Burning DVDs

2005-10-15 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Hi all, > My DVD drive read and mounts CDs and DVDs properly, but K3B refuses to > burn : "K3B did not find a suitable writer. You will only be able to > create an image". Gut feeling is that there probably is something wrong > in the drive's read/write permission. I checked the /etc/fstab >

Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD

2005-10-15 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:13:36PM -0400, Sean wrote: > I came across the Gentoo/FreeBSD project at > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-freebsd.xml > > A description states > What is Gentoo/FreeBSD? > > Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD operating > system with Gen

Feeback on partitioning

2005-10-15 Thread Teo De Las Heras
I'm getting ready to set up a single system as a mail, print, web, and file server. I may be installing other applications but nothing as intense as Xorg. If at all, I'll probably just install some network monitoring tools. I'm placing all of these roles on a single system because it is only for my

Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD

2005-10-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Oct 15, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Tom Norris wrote: Sean wrote: Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term goal of the Gentoo/BSD project is to allow users to choose any combination of *BSD or Linux kernel

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Garrett Cooper
On Oct 15, 2005, at 12:35 PM, Gary Kline wrote: On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 12:06:30PM +0400, Andrew P. wrote: On 10/15/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 09:08:31PM -0500, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 10/12/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This

Re: How to get a high resolution console for FreeBSD inside a VMWare image?

2005-10-15 Thread Jared Evans
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I shall try your patch and see if I can get it to work. Jared On 10/14/05, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 10/14/05, Jared Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I know that this isn't exactly a standard configuration (VMWare as > opposed > > t

Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 15, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Tom Norris wrote: > > > Sean wrote: > > > >> Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD > >> operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term > >> goal of the Gentoo/BSD pr

Re: Is rcorder working under /usr/local/etc/rc.d?

2005-10-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-15 22:12, Lefteris Tsintjelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting all these "no provider" and rcorder doesn't seem to work > properly under /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Services seem to start > alphabetically and not in the right order specified. The keywords > REQUIRE, PROVIDE, BEFORE and

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 09:51:44AM +0100, Glyn Millington wrote: > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'll give xfce a try. Again. I played with it months ago > > but gave up on it after a few days. Can I run all KDE-ware > > and Gnome suites too? > > Hi Gary, > > I'm

Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD

2005-10-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-15 13:12, Garrett Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Oct 15, 2005, at 12:22 PM, Tom Norris wrote: >>Sean wrote: >>> Gentoo/FreeBSD is an effort to provide a fully-capable FreeBSD >>> operating system with Gentoo's design sensibilities. The long-term >>> goal of the Gentoo/BSD project

RE: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Petersen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <> wrote: > --- Jan Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, Peter Matulis wrote: >> >>> What is the use of specifying the 'r' switch when using the 'a' >>> switch? >>> >>> # portupgrade -ar >>> >>> This says to upgrade all ports plus the ones that depend on

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:23:58PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:36:32 -0700 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights, > > > > Oh: I brought up linux-mozilla under Gnome, pointed > > audio/x-pn-realaudio at real

Recommended partitioning

2005-10-15 Thread Teo De Las Heras
-- Forwarded message -- From: Teo De Las Heras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 15, 2005 4:11 PM Subject: Feeback on partitioning To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org I'm getting ready to set up a single system as a mail, print, web, and file server. I may be installing other application

Re: Is rcorder working under /usr/local/etc/rc.d?

2005-10-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-15 22:12, Lefteris Tsintjelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am getting all these "no provider" and rcorder doesn't seem to work > properly under /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Services seem to start > alphabetically and not in the right order specified. The keywords > REQUIRE, PROVIDE, BEFORE and

RE: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > But still, a port requires upgrading or it does not. Using 'r', > > portupgrade ultimately checks whether some port should be > upgraded. > > Are you saying that the 'r' switch involves a different decision > > making process than 'a'? > > > > The -

Re: Is rcorder working under /usr/local/etc/rc.d?

2005-10-15 Thread Lefteris Tsintjelis
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: [...] These look like stuff that is "provided" by /etc/rc.d/* scripts. Try including all the scripts in the rcorder command line: % flame:/home/keramida$ rcorder /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* >/dev/null % rcorder: file `/usr/local/etc/rc.d/samba.sh' is before unknown provisi

test

2005-10-15 Thread Teo De Las Heras
test ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Is rcorder working under /usr/local/etc/rc.d?

2005-10-15 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2005-10-16 00:41, Lefteris Tsintjelis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >% flame:/home/keramida$ rcorder /etc/rc.d/* /usr/local/etc/rc.d/* >/dev/null > >% rcorder: Circular dependency on provision `mountcritremote' in file > >`/etc/rc.d/newsyslog'. > >% rcorder: Circular d

make release cvsroot directory

2005-10-15 Thread Antoine Solomon
Hello all When creating a release using "make release" is it possible to specify the CVSROOT using pserver or ext? Or will I have to use NFS to mount my CVSROOT directory? -- Antoine W. Solomon Jr. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Bash Pattern Matching Syntax

2005-10-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
I want to list the files in a directory that end in ".jpg" irregardless of case. Thus after reading the bash man page, it seems I should be able to issue a command something along the lines of "ls [*.[JjPpGg]]" or "ls *.[JjPpGg]" but neither of these work and return a "No such file or directo

Re: Help Understanding While Loop

2005-10-15 Thread Drew Tomlinson
On 10/14/2005 3:24 PM David Kirchner wrote: On 10/14/05, Drew Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: OK, I've been working on an sh script and I'm almost there. In the script, I created a 'while read' loop that is doing what I want. Now I want to keep track of how many times the loop execute

Re: Bash Pattern Matching Syntax

2005-10-15 Thread Will Maier
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 03:37:11PM -0700, Drew Tomlinson wrote: > I want to list the files in a directory that end in ".jpg" > irregardless of case. Thus after reading the bash man page, it > seems I should be able to issue a command something along the > lines of "ls [*.[JjPpGg]]" or "ls *.[JjPp

ng_one2many v.s. AFT (NIC Fault Tolerance/Fail Over/Redundancy Revisited)

2005-10-15 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
Re: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2005-October/100623.html First: This is all very preliminary from some testing over the weekend. Dell's reponse was that Intel's AFT/ALB was entirely software based. That left me with few options: 1) Try userland layer 3 failover (ugly)

RE: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Petersen
Peter Matulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The -a switch will upgrade a port only if its version number has >> increased (as you know). >> >> The -r switch will upgrade a port if one of its dependancies has been >> upgraded, regardless of whether its

RE: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Matulis
--- Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Uninstalled dependancies of an installed port are irrelevant in > any portupgrade case, as the port will automatically pull them in as > part of its compilation. What if a port now has a new dependency? But back to 'r', My system shows this: -

Re: test

2005-10-15 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 15 October 2005 at 17:56:19 -0400, Teo De Las Heras wrote: > test > ___ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list Please do *not* send "test" messages to FreeBSD questions. Please also don't respond to such messages (this one response s

portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-15 Thread John DeStefano
I'm trying to use portupgrade to update my installed ports. I ran into trouble with dependencies with ImageMagick and xorg-libraries, and I then followed the suggestion in UPDATING to delete XFree86 the imake-4 packages, and install the full xorg port. After all that, I got more dependency errors:

Re: Gathering statistics on disk usage

2005-10-15 Thread Josh Paetzel
> It definitely should have applied cleanly on 5.4. I just tested > it. Try downloading the "Raw PR" link at the bottom of the page; > that will remove any html-escaping. The patch won't work on 4.x > because the devstat interface got overhauled between 4.x and 5.x. All right, I get the point ha

Re: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, Peter Matulis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Uninstalled dependancies of an installed port are irrelevant in > > any portupgrade case, as the port will automatically pull them in > as > > part of its compilation. > > What if a port now has

Re: portupgrade stale dependencies

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, John DeStefano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to use portupgrade to update my installed ports. I ran into > trouble with dependencies with ImageMagick and xorg-libraries, and I then > followed the suggestion in UPDATING to delete XFree86 the imake-4 packages, > and install the

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Vulpes Velox
On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:57:05 -0700 Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:23:58PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:36:32 -0700 > > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > This is to anybody with Gnome or KDE insights, > > > > > > Oh: I

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread David Kirchner
On 10/15/05, Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know, what I'd like my wm to be able to do is > set app (say xload) > > /usr/bin/nice -n -17 xload -g 50x90+0+0 & > > so that I'll be able to nice it down to some low value, > control the placing and

Re: problem compiling jdk14

2005-10-15 Thread Micah
Filippo Moretti wrote: I ran inthe following error while attempint to upgrade sun-jdk14 on 5.4-stable i386 architecture /bsd_i486/vm -I../generated -DHOTSPOT_BUILD_VERSION="\"1.4.2-p7-filippo_14_oct_2005_15_44\"" Compiling /usr/ports/java/jdk14/work/hotspot/src/share/vm/runtime/functionAtStart.

Re: portupgrade -ar (why?)

2005-10-15 Thread Peter Matulis
--- "Andrew P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Honestly guys, what is this thread about? Hum, understanding something? > You're not gonna make portupgrade work any faster or > smoother if you weed out a couple of switches from the > command-line. See above. > I don't mean to bother anyone if yo

Re: Recommended partitioning

2005-10-15 Thread Andrew P.
On 10/16/05, Teo De Las Heras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -- Forwarded message -- > From: Teo De Las Heras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Oct 15, 2005 4:11 PM > Subject: Feeback on partitioning > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > > I'm getting ready to set up a single system as a ma

Re: Recommended partitioning

2005-10-15 Thread Teo De Las Heras
Some of my reading in books and online does suggest straying from the default when configuring mail and web servers (for example). I do understand the importance of following standards, and that's why I'm asking for feedback from this list. Teo On 10/15/05, Andrew P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: interesting past 4 hours...

2005-10-15 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 08:30:56PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > On Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:57:05 -0700 > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 02:23:58PM -0500, Vulpes Velox wrote: > > > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 14:36:32 -0700 > > > Gary Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >

kldload snd_driver locks up 5.4-STABLE

2005-10-15 Thread Annelise Anderson
On 5.4-STABLE on a Dell Optiplex GX620, there's an "Integrated AC97 Audio". dmesg says: pci0: at device 30.2 (no driver attached) If I try to load sound drivers with kldload, the machine locks up entirely and a reset is required. Perhaps the solution is just to "not

Flash drive device name difficulties.

2005-10-15 Thread Malcolm Kay
I am running FreeBSD 5.4 RELEASE. I recently aquired a 256M USB flash drive which the system recognises when plugged in; and I can mount and use it -- all working well. But now I'd like to make it available to a user or group of users through mtools. To do this I need to change the permissions on

Re: Help Understanding While Loop

2005-10-15 Thread Parv
in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, wrote Drew Tomlinson thusly... > > Thus I set the following variables: > > remote_pictures_dir="/multimedia/Pictures" > local_pictures_dir="/tv/pictures" > find_args="-iname '*.jpg' -or -iname '*.gif'" > > Then I called the 'find' command as follows: > > for origi

Re: Gentoo and FreeBSD

2005-10-15 Thread Graham Bentley
>I see the beauty of FreeBSD land corrupted by GPL chaos :( Mmm, that chaos seems to have gotten stallman et alii a long way ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se

Re: Is rcorder working under /usr/local/etc/rc.d?

2005-10-15 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 04:42, Lefteris Tsintjelis wrote: > I am getting all these "no provider" and rcorder doesn't seem to > work properly under /usr/local/etc/rc.d. Services seem to start > alphabetically and not in the right order specified. The keywords > REQUIRE, PROVIDE, BEFORE and KEYWORD seem