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On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:01:23PM +1000, andrew clarke wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:36:54PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> > Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE
> > audio mp3 files into much much smaller files? Say taking man mp3
> > files that are stored at
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 23:39:59 -0700 (PDT)
Dino Vliet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> mentioned:
> The build gives this error:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk84]# make build
> ===> Building for tk-8.4.13,2
> cc -pipe -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipetkAppInit.o
> -L/usr/ports/x11-toolkits/tk
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On 8/27/06, Nikolas Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64
on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie.
Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for
FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some o
I'm a little worried after reading the security output this morning.
It seems some files [ping, ping6, shutdown, at, atq and atrm] have
setuid diffs. I really don't know why this could have happened.
I updated some ports yesterday, but I don't think any port writes
in /sbin (?)
Could someboddy advi
Generally speaking, mail and file server are not RAM intensive. A 32
proc can directly address 4GB RAM (2**32). FreeBSD allows you to
address more than 4GB on a 32 bit proc but limited to 4GB max per
process. The actual per process limit will be a bit less, I think.
A 64 bit proc can ge
Hi folks,
I have problems with PHP5 and MySQL running together. I know this is a
freebsd mailing list, not PHP/MySQL, but I am unable to find an appropriate
mailing list for getting my problem resolved. Can someone help and let me
know what the right mailing list is?
Thanks
Omer
(Please do in
Muhammad Omer Iqbal wrote:
> I have problems with PHP5 and MySQL running together. I know this is a
> freebsd mailing list, not PHP/MySQL, but I am unable to find an appropriate
> mailing list for getting my problem resolved. Can someone help and let me
> know what the right mailing list is?
http
I have gone through the mysql and php docs and there are some possible
solutions listed, none of those worked. Of course, I tried looking for a
solution first before sending it here, this is like one of the last resort
places, don't want to bug people with something trivial or easily fixable.
I ca
Muhammad Omer Iqbal wrote:
> I have gone through the mysql and php docs and there are some possible
> solutions listed, none of those worked. Of course, I tried looking for a
> solution first before sending it here, this is like one of the last resort
> places, don't want to bug people with someth
I am sorry, being a newbie, I do not know what this means:
>> Please don't top post!
>> What version issue are you referring to?
As for this:
>> I am assuming that you installed both MySQL and PHP5 from an updated
ports collection. Did you
run: 'make config' in the PHP5 directory before building
Sorry, typo.
>> I recently installed Apache 2.2, so it is as updated a ports collection
as I could get.
I meant to say I recently installed FreeBSD 6.0.
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From: Muhammad Omer Iqbal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 5:42 AM
To: 'freebsd-questions@f
Nikolas Britton wrote:
> What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64
> on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie.
> Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for
> FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we should can some of these platform ports, h
>Muhammad Omer Iqbal wrote:
>> Looking through phpinfo, I do not find mysql or mysqli installed, even
>> though I have enabled, remade and reinstalled both MySQL and PHP5. In
>> fact, I think that my PHP5 is no longer remade, it just reconfigures
>> it and reinstalls it because the build date s
On Sat, 2006-08-26 at 04:57 -0700, Nate Peck wrote:
> In FreeBSD, is there good support for right to left languages such as
> Hebrew and Arabic?
Depends on what you really mean by "support for right to left", in all
GTK2+ and QT3+ applications you have proper support. This means if you
are running
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 8/26/06, Atom Powers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On 8/26/06, Darrin Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:43:38PM -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >
> > Neat to see nVidia *much* more popular then ATI though ...
>
> Really
dick hoogendijk wrote:
I'm a little worried after reading the security output this morning.
It seems some files [ping, ping6, shutdown, at, atq and atrm] have
setuid diffs. I really don't know why this could have happened.
I updated some ports yesterday, but I don't think any port writes
in /sbin
Hello
My goal is to run OpenOffice 2.0.3 on FreeBSD 6.1/KDE 3.5.3 with a german user
interface. Until
now OO is only in english. I did the following:
- Changed the localization as described at
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/using-localization.html
(in
/etc/login.c
I just installed PHP5 & Mysql5 from the ports collection without any
problems.
And yes this is correct place to ask question about installing PHP5
& Mysql5
on Freebsd 6.1 system.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Muhammad
Omer
Iqbal
Sent: Sund
My installation also completed without any problems. However, it is the
php5-mysql/mysqli libraries that are missing. This will show up as a problem
only when you try to connect to mysql from a php web-page.
Otherwise, my server runs php just fine, and I am also able to run mysql and
issue queries
I found something I can use, but I have some errors, I've no clue how
to deal with:
Makefile:
.PATH: /usr/src/sys/dev/sound/pci;.
KMOD= snd_hdac
SRCS= device_if.h bus_if.h isa_if.h pci_if.h mixer_if.h
SRCS+
I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have
been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried:
1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab
2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf
3) Created a group called optical and added the root and alpha to it
hello,
there are some mailing lists which may suit your needs.
http://www.php.net/mailing-lists.php
my recommendation is general user list.
regards,
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http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest
1 sounds like my problem. The machine booted fine to multi-user until I
configured the nic.
I'll test it first thing tommoro.
Bill
-Original Message-
From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subj: Re: Problems booting HP Proliant DL-320 G4 & 6.1-RELEASE
Date: Sat Aug 26, 2006
On 8/27/06, Matthew Seaman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
> What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64
> on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie.
> Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for
> FreeBSD/
On Wed, 23 Aug 2006, bsd wrote:
> The idea is to offer a simple and very efficient solution in order for the
> server to have a 100% uptime under any circumstances.
That goal is not realistic.
> I was first thinking about using Linux-HA aka. "heartbeat" and syncing
> the two boxes using rsync ?
Thank you for the help!
It seems strange to have to install it again especially when I installed
php5-extensions with mysql and mysqli extensions.
When I tried to make, it tries to fetches MySQL 4.1 whereas I have 5.0
installed. How can I update the version?
I have updated Makefile.ext in PHP5 d
I have HTML/php5 web site that connects to mysql5 database
and adds new records, deletes records and searches.
Sounds to me like you did not do "make options" and select
php-mysql interface of php5 before doing "make install".
For some reason in Freebsd 6.1 they removed php-mysql
interface as defa
And by the way, I already have MySQL 5.0 as a .tar in the mysql folder, so
probably all I need to do is let php5-mysql extension know how to access
that .tar file.
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Sent: Sunday, August 27, 2006 9:48 AM
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To: 'Matthew Seaman'
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Subject: RE: PHP5 and
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Hi
I'm new to FreeBSD but I'm loving it very much! I'm experimenting with CARP
to create a redundant router/firewall.
I created a functioning two machine routing cluster and it works very well
while configured for failover. I'm going to test it with load balancing and
I'm wondering about some prob
Hello Family,
I'm on a wifi network where all the other Unix(like) and Windows
laptops seem to be able to pass a "ten" (10) digit number as the
"hex" key.
In the "ifconfig" manpage for FreeBSD-6.1 it states, under the
stanza for "wepkey" that the number must be 5 or 13 chars long.
The number tha
When I run this:
/usr/local/bin/rsync --delete -vaz
rsync://ftp13.FreeBSD.org:/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-4-stable /usr1
echo "rsync Exit Status: $?"
I get this:
receiving file list ... done
deleting packages-4-stable/All/.linux-enemyterritory-2.60b.tgz.fzZLWH
packages-4-stable/All/
pack
Just wondering if this is a usual response to my accidentally hammering
the bsdstats server:
bash-2.05b# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics &
[1] 5437
bash-2.05b# Posting monthly OS statistics to bsdstats.org
Posting monthly device/CPU statistics disabled
set monthly_statistics_re
--On August 27, 2006 12:08:55 AM -0500 Nikolas Britton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64
on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie.
Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for
FreeBSD/PPC
FYI
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Date: Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:25:40 +0200
From: Manuel Kasper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], m0n0wall@lists.m0n0.ch
Subject: [m0n0wall-announce] Prize for FreeBSD 6.1 port of m0n0wall
doubled ($2000)
Hello m0n0wall developers,
I am gl
Hi all
I have just installed FreeBSD 6.1 on VMware workstation , and am facing a
problem configuring the network connection , i havn't tryed many things , when
i ping any ip i get " no route to host "
could you PLZ advice !!
thanks in advance .
i just brought home new samsung 22" widescreen LCD. so far, i cannot get xorg
to take anything other than standard CRT type resolutions, such as 1280x1024.
i took at look at my Xorg.0.log, and saw this:
(II) I810(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) I810(0): [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(II) I810(0): [EMAIL PROTEC
32 vs 64 bits does not give you any raw performance boost for most apps. The
yes it will. FreeBSD/amd64 works at least 10% faster than FreeBSD/i386 on
athlon64 machine, when i386 version were recompiled for P4. With default
FreeBSD/i386 - it will be at least 30%.
just because it's not just
On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote:
Ah, thank you, thank you. I just can't see wasting so much of my
disk
[and bakup disks] for what are mostly voice/lectures.
I suppose I can buy a DVD-R[W] and fnd out, but is there any reason
why I can't have many hours of
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 08:11:16PM +0530, Viswas Nair wrote:
> I have been trying to figure out how to give users to mount CD rom and have
> been largely unsuccessful. Here are a few things I tried:
> 1) Added user to the 4th field (options) in /etc/fstab
> 2) Added vfs.usermount=1 to sysctl.conf
I was googling "freebsd" and "vpn" so I could use my notebook to
handle work stuff remotely, and I found this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ipsec.html
guess I didn't need google. Regardless, it mentions a lot of kernel
options. I checked my kernel configuration file,
On Sunday 27 August 2006 06:36, Gary Kline wrote:
> files.
> Reply-To:
> X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986.
> X-Of_Interest: Observing twenty years of service to the Unix community
>
>
> Is there a way of using sox (or another translator) to turn HUGE
>
Hi there,
I just installed 5.5 for the first time and I am trying to make sure
that SMP is operating properly. The kernel I have loaded is rebuilt
with SMP support. okay the dmesg is showing two logical CPUs. I
actually only have one CPU as you can tell by the boot information. I
am wonde
Muhammad Omer Iqbal wrote:
> And by the way, I already have MySQL 5.0 as a .tar in the mysql folder, so
> probably all I need to do is let php5-mysql extension know how to access
> that .tar file.
A .tar of what? The sources? Better put them into /usr/ports/distfiles.
> It seems strange to have
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 03:04:10PM -0500, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
>
> On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > Ah, thank you, thank you. I just can't see wasting so much of my
> >disk
> > [and bakup disks] for what are mostly voice/lectures.
> >
> > I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
> I'm new to FreeBSD but I'm loving it very much! I'm experimenting with CARP
> to create a redundant router/firewall.
> I created a functioning two machine routing cluster and it works very well
> while configured for failover. I'm going to test it with load balancin
Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz
processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of
UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux,
freebsd, or something else, but I need something that will run with
enough speed to run
Quoting Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
i just brought home new samsung 22" widescreen LCD. so far, i cannot
get xorg
to take anything other than standard CRT type resolutions, such as 1280x1024.
the first part, seems to be the normal video modes that i would expect to see
from an i810 g
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote:
--Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's
onto one Very long-playing disk.
That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't read
in a normal CD drive... and I really don't know ho
On 27 August 2006, at 16:26, Gary Kline wrote:
I have a DVD burner in my newest server; my thinking is that
I would burn some N *.mp3 files onto a DVD, then play it back.
On what?
The questions are whether I would have to create a filesystem,
or if the DVD f
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006 16:35:51 -0500
"hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz
> processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type
> of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's
>
On 27 August 2006, at 16:38, Howard Jones wrote:
hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
That would require you to burn an audio DVD, which you couldn't
read in a normal CD drive... and I really don't know how exactly
you would do it either...
Not necessarily. Both of my current DVD players c
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 04:35:51PM -0500, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
> Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz
> processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of
> UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux,
> freeb
> Ah, thank you, thank you. I just can't see wasting so much of my disk
> [and bakup disks] for what are mostly voice/lectures.
>
> I suppose I can buy a DVD-R[W] and fnd out, but is there any reason
> why I can't have many hours of audio on a DVD? In other words, id
Jim Stapleton wrote:
> What I found and added:
> #ipsec: Required for VPN
> optionsIPSEC#IP security
> optionsIPSEC_ESP#IP security (crypto; define w/ IPSEC)
> #ipsec optimsations
> optionsFAST_IPSEC # new IPsec (cannot define w/ IPSEC)
> optionsIPSEC_
OK, thanks.
Right now there are no "problems", I just am looking to figure out how
to connect to my works VPN from home. Right now I'm looking at the
actual VPN part, but after that I have to check how to do remote
desktop/terminal services for the windows server I have to work on.
Thank you,
-J
On 8/27/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz
processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type of
UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's linux,
freebsd, or something else,
On 27 August 2006, at 18:01, Nikolas Britton wrote:
On 8/27/06, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
That box doesn't have enough memory to run a current version of
FreeBSD or Linux.
I just want a version to run, a new one is obviously pushing it :)
Also what CPU does i
On 2006-08-26 20:31, "J.D. Bronson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 07:59 PM 8/26/2006, you wrote:
> >I'd go for the simpler syntax of:
> >
> >MYADDR:
> > ! /sbin/ipf -y
>
> well that didnt work either. what a pain. :(
>
> tun0: Warning: /etc/ppp/ppp.linkup: ! /sbin/ipf -y: Invalid comman
On 27 August 2006, at 16:42, albi wrote:
it's a 386 ? try minix first
Does it have a way to install without a CD? FBSD has floppies that
you can network install using. I can't use CDs because the CD drive
of this box can't read CD-Rs =(
, then FreeBSD 3.x :]
http://www.minix3.org/do
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote:
Nikolas Britton wrote:
What I think is interesting is the only ~50% uptake of FreeBSD/amd64
on 64-bit x86 capable systems. FreeBSD/i386 takes ~90% of the pie.
Also the less then 1% uptake of sparc64 and alpha ports and 0% for
FreeBSD/PPC. Maybe we sho
Just curious of something. How are file associations handled in
Freebsd? Are they handled on the OS level, Xwindows, or is it handled by
the actual Window Manager such as KDE or Gnome? Just curious because I'm
trying to help someone troubleshoot something he's developing. Thanks.
Noah wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I just installed 5.5 for the first time and I am trying to make sure
> that SMP is operating properly. The kernel I have loaded is rebuilt
> with SMP support. okay the dmesg is showing two logical CPUs. I
> actually only have one CPU as you can tell by the boot in
stan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I just set up a new cvsup server, using the cvsup-mirror port. I can use it
> to update everything that I need but the ports collection. It fails like
> this:
>
> Parsing supfile "ports-supfile"
> Connecting to cvsup.meadwestvaco.com
> Connected to cvsup.meadwest
On 27 August 2006, at 19:36, Steve Lake wrote:
Just curious of something. How are file associations
handled in Freebsd? Are they handled on the OS level, Xwindows, or
is it handled by the actual Window Manager such as KDE or Gnome?
Your file manager determines which app to run to
On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:35 PM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz
processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type
of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept. I don't care if it's
linux, freebsd, or something e
Just looking for pointers, as I've seen them here from time to time when
a port won't build. I'm using the following command line:
portupgrade -NR ktorrent
All dependencies build successfully. The ktorrent build fails like this:
/usr/X11R6/bin/moc ./peermanager.h -o peermanager.moc
source='pee
On Aug 28, 2006, at 4:03 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:
32 vs 64 bits does not give you any raw performance boost for most
apps. The
yes it will. FreeBSD/amd64 works at least 10% faster than FreeBSD/
i386 on athlon64 machine, when i386 version were recompiled for P4.
With default FreeBSD/i38
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:38:05PM +0100, Howard Jones wrote:
> hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
> >On 27 August 2006, at 02:49, Gary Kline wrote:
> >>--Might be nice to gather (parts of) my favorite CD's
> >>onto one Very long-playing disk.
> >
> >That would require you to burn an audio DVD,
On 8/27/06, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Aug 27, 2006, at 4:35 PM, hackmiester (Hunter Fuller) wrote:
> Everyone will laugh at this, but I have an old box with a 25mHz
> processor or so. It has 8mB of memory. I want to install some type
> of UNIX clone on it, as a proof of concept.
On Sun, 27 Aug 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote:
Just wondering if this is a usual response to my accidentally hammering the
bsdstats server:
bash-2.05b# /usr/local/etc/periodic/monthly/300.statistics &
[1] 5437
bash-2.05b# Posting monthly OS statistics to bsdstats.org
Posting monthly device/CPU sta
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On 8/25/06, VeeJay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello FreeBSD Gurus!!!
I am wondering if any of you could help me to select a Good & Reliable
hardware for Dedicated FreeBSD Web/Database Server.
There is a list of hardware vendors at FreeBSD.org
(http://www.freebsd.org/commercial/hardw
I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through
2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation:
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE:
4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader.
12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko.
20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set.
Mem:
I just tested the minimum memory requirements for FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE through
2.2.9-RELEASE using VMware 5 Workstation:
FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE:
4MB, 8MB: Dies at bootstrap loader.
12MB, 16MB: Dies while loading acpi.ko.
20MB: Boots / Successfully installed the default minimal distribution set.
Mem:
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