Re: Which environment variable?

On Monday 14 January 2008 09:35:41 Matiss wrote: > Is there such environment variable, which changes window title for > putty? No there is no such variable, that I am aware of. You just have to send some control characters to the terminal to change its title. How to send these characters really de

Re: Which environment variable?

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:35:41 +0200 Matiss said: > Is there such environment variable, which changes window title for > putty? I mean, MC is able to change it to working dir I think.. How > do I change that title to let's say server name for my shell? > > Thanks :) man xprop Or for the terminall

Re: RAID mirror really worked

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:48:09 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > gmirror works too very good without any hardware :) Yes, but a hardware RAID works without the OS having to know about it. :-) Regards, Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing li

Re: Changing the output of uname -m or -p

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:03:42 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote: >> Can this even be done and if so how? > See the manpage, and the UNAME_* variables. One other thing: Will that change the way the system reacts in any way? Apps should run normally (well, a browser may give a wrong plattform information bu

Re: AFS ... or equivalent ...

Marc G. Fournier wrote: Does anyone know if there is any serious work being done to get AFS working under FreeBSD? I have a large project that I'm working on that AFS (or something equivalent) would be *very* useful for, but we're trying to keep it as FreeBSD-pure as possible ... Yes. P

Re: Reinterpret gamepad input as keyboeard input

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 08:12:51 +0100 Christopher Illies wrote: > I tried out usbhidaction with something like: > Generic_Desktop:Game_Pad.Button:Button_1 1 1 /bin/echo -n ls > > Obviously, this approach does not work as I hoped. "ls" is echoed in a > shell window, but it is not interpreted as input.

Which is the Latest Clustering Tools for FreeBSD7.0

Dear Friends, Am Interested to know more about the Latest Clustering tools available in FreeBSD 7.0 What am looking for is Load Balancing cluster + High Availability cluster Is SG Cluster Still active project ? [http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/sgcluster/ ] The Pico BSD mentioned in this page is ver

Re: AFS ... or equivalent ...

The server runs on FreeBSD as far as I know. There is a client, and I think it still builds if you apply Matt's patches, which are in the OpenAFS bug tracking system. But it doesn't run. No one is actively maintaining the FreeBSD port. ___ freebsd-ques

No spam???

Last week I set up a brand new mail server with a combination of pf/ spamassassin/maildrop for spam filtering... Everything seems to work great. All real mail seems to be getting through. I monitored the spamd and maildrop logs during the first few days to make sure my very conservative spam

Re: RAID mirror really worked

Hello, Christian. On 14 января 2008 г., 14:12:04 you wrote: CB> On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 07:48:09 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> gmirror works too very good without any hardware :) CB> Yes, but a hardware RAID works without the OS having to know about it. :-) ...and its failures? ;) -- Bes

pfctl on wireless interfaces

I'm running tests on a few congestion control schemes which use pfctl to activate the respective queue controller. This works fine on interfaces with a fixed capacity as altq sets up the respective queue taking the bandwidth into consideration. On wireless interfaces however this capacity varies ov

Re: AFS ... or equivalent ...

On Sun, 13 Jan 2008, Jason C. Wells wrote: Marc G. Fournier wrote: Does anyone know if there is any serious work being done to get AFS working under FreeBSD? I have a large project that I'm working on that AFS (or something equivalent) would be *very* useful for, but we're trying to keep i

Re: How backup huge pgsql ?

> I want to known how can I make backup of huge postgresql database (huge mean > ~ 2To). > > I can stop the access of the database during N>>1 hours. > > Any idea about this ? I came around this particular problem by setting up a read only mirror of an Oracle instance using Oracle DataGuard. Of c

Re: RAID mirror really worked

gmirror works too very good without any hardware :) CB> Yes, but a hardware RAID works without the OS having to know about it. :-) ...and its failures? ;) :) for mirroring there is almost no CPU overhead so buying extra hardware doesn't make sense at all. not mentioning that most of such ha

Re: Which is the Latest Clustering Tools for FreeBSD7.0

Hi Susanth, On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, Susanth K wrote: > Am Interested to know more about the Latest Clustering tools available in > FreeBSD 7.0 Me too;-) > Is SG Cluster Still active project ? [http://turtle.ee.ncku.edu.tw/sgcluster/ I don't know.. and have not used it. Sorry. > Applications am W

Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working!

Written by Rudy on 01/10/08 18:58>> > Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > >>> rm /usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/fp7_archive.zip >>> >> >> An other way to fix it in some ways is to run a make makesum to update >> the distfile checksums > > The fp7_archive.zip was an odd case were I felt more comfortable

Re: AFS ... or equivalent ...

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:34:24AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > Hi ... > I recently started working for a company that is using AFS to mirror their > data between various data centers, in the US, Asia and the EU ... the idea is > that the several thousand servers that are being run have

Re: AFS ... or equivalent ...

For those of you who haven't seen this. Here is my rudimentary port. It is nothing more than the FreeBSD parts wrapped around the OpenAFS source. I think I was working on version 5 of FreeBSD but I don't recall for sure. This was version OpenAFS 1.4.2. It compiled. The kernel module loaded.

Re: Which environment variable?

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:35:41AM +0200, Matiss wrote: > Is there such environment variable, which changes window title for > putty? I mean, MC is able to change it to working dir I think.. How > do I change that title to let's say server name for my shell? I think what you are referring to is t

Trendnet TEG-PCITXR hw rev 3.0 & re driver

Went looking for a cheap GigE PCI card to use with a 6.2 (6.3-PRERELEASE) stable system, and brought this home due to Microcenter not stocking Intel cards and me not wanting to wait for Newegg to ship one to me. I have the re driver built into the kernel, but this particular card is not recog

7.0 RC1 snd_hda headset sound only

Hi all I have installed 7.0 RC1 on my Dell XPS m1330 with Sigmatel HDA sound. snd_hda driver was patched with this http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/READMEinstructions. But still have audio only in headset and no sound on internal speakers. Any suggestio

Re: No spam???

John Almberg wrote: Last week I set up a brand new mail server with a combination of pf/spamassassin/maildrop for spam filtering... Everything seems to work great. All real mail seems to be getting through. I monitored the spamd and maildrop logs during the first few days to make sure my very

Re: Changing the output of uname -m or -p

Christian Baer wrote: On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:03:42 +0100 Kris Kennaway wrote: Can this even be done and if so how? See the manpage, and the UNAME_* variables. One other thing: Will that change the way the system reacts in any way? Apps should run normally (well, a browser may give a wrong pl

Re: Mounting Western Digital USB drive?

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 11:02:29AM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:53:38AM -0500, Patrick Baldwin wrote: > > > > > I'm wondering if I need to format the USB drive for use with FreeBSD? > > I think you will have to use something to divide the disk in to more > than on

Re: Reinterpret gamepad input as keyboeard input

On Jan 14 at 08:12 +0100, Christopher Illies wrote: > I have a gamepad and would like to make certain gamepad actions to be > seen as regular keyboard input. Is this possible? > > I tried out usbhidaction with something like: > Generic_Desktop:Game_Pad.Button:Button_1 1 1 /bin/echo -n ls > > Obvi

Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working!

Does anyone else have audio/video sync issues with linux-flashplugin7? Following the general procedure outlined in this thread, linux-flashplugin7 does work...sort of. The video proceeds the audio. This holds true for linux-opera and linux-firefox. The synch gap widens as time progresses. In a 5 mi

Re: No spam???

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008, John Almberg wrote: [...] At the beginning of the week, I was getting a few spam a day in my spam folder. What has me spooked is that this whole weekend I got exactly one spam in my spam folder (a false positive, in fact). This is down from around 500 that I normally get p

Re: Trendnet TEG-PCITXR hw rev 3.0 & re driver

Shawn Barnhart wrote: Went looking for a cheap GigE PCI card to use with a 6.2 (6.3-PRERELEASE) stable system, and brought this home due to Microcenter not stocking Intel cards and me not wanting to wait for Newegg to ship one to me. Card works after switching slots on the motherboard, but I go

Re: (bez temata)

At 1:41 PM +0200 1/13/08, Matiss wrote: > >Hey all > >Hope this is more or less right place to ask. > >What I noticed on my FreeBSD 6.2 installation, that >pkg_add -r ImageMagick results in a file not found error. > >DTG864# pkg_add -r ImageMagick >Error: FTP Unable to get >ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pu

Re: 7.0 RC1 snd_hda headset sound only

On Jan 15, 2008 3:10 AM, Oleksandr Rudyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I have installed 7.0 RC1 on my Dell XPS m1330 with Sigmatel HDA sound. > snd_hda driver was patched with this > http://people.freebsd.org/~ariff/READMEinstructions. > > But st

Re: No spam???

> I know this is an odd thing to worry about, but is this normal? Since > the spam doesn't even seem to be reaching spamd, I'm guessing that > the real hero is pf, which must be blocking 99.99% of spam at the > packet level. I don't know how you configured pf, but since I use the black list

Mouse sensitivity

I'm wondering if it's possible to adjust the sensitivity of the mouse - that is, the amount of physical distance I have to move my mouse before 'moused' moves the cursor by one unit. I'm not talking about acceleration here. Purely a linear scaling is what I mean. I think we can leave Xorg out of

Re: Trendnet TEG-PCITXR hw rev 3.0 & re driver

Shawn Barnhart wrote: Went looking for a cheap GigE PCI card to use with a 6.2 (6.3-PRERELEASE) stable system, and brought this home due to Microcenter not stocking Intel cards and me not wanting to wait for Newegg to ship one to me. I have the re driver built into the kernel, but this partic

Re: Mouse sensitivity

"Nerius Landys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm aware of the 'xset' utility, but this does not seem to do anything for > linear scaling, only acceleration. Also, it [of course] has no effect on > the console pointer. Linear? Do you mean threshold 0, like `xset m 3/2 0'? _

Ntop install error related to net-snmp

Hello all, I'm attempting to install Ntop 3.3_1 from ports and I'm hitting a snag during compilation. Here is the error: In file included from /usr/local/include/net-snmp/utilities.h:54, from /usr/local/include/net-snmp/net-snmp-includes.h:78, from iface.c:766:

Re: Mouse sensitivity

> > I'm aware of the 'xset' utility, but this does not seem to do anything > for > > linear scaling, only acceleration. Also, it [of course] has no effect > on > > the console pointer. > > Linear? Do you mean threshold 0, like `xset m 3/2 0'? > 'xset' is indeed what I want. Err, `xset', not 'xse

sysinstall and bsdlabel/boot

I was trying to install 7.0RC1 (hope it's OK to post this here, because I believe that older versions of FreeBSD have this same limitation) and came across a gotcha. I had an MBR on disk that I wanted to keep. It was Lilo and all it did was boot a selected slice, it was configured to function the

newest security patch and custom kernel

Hello, Using freebsd-update I applied the latest security patches which were announced yesterday. However, I then notice this message: The following files will be updated as part of updating to 6.2-RELEASE-p10: /boot/GENERIC/kernel My question is whether my update missed the point because I h

Re: newest security patch and custom kernel

Hello, Norman Maurer pisze: Hi, the /usr/src/sys* stuff should be patched anyway. But you need to build your kernel again and install it to reflect the changes. Even if i think it only update the -p10 label in the case of -p10 patch set. OK. So this page applies to me now? http://www.freeb

Re: newest security patch and custom kernel

Hi, the /usr/src/sys* stuff should be patched anyway. But you need to build your kernel again and install it to reflect the changes. Even if i think it only update the -p10 label in the case of -p10 patch set. cheers Norman Am Dienstag, den 15.01.2008, 07:03 +0100 schrieb zbigniew szalbot: > He

Re: newest security patch and custom kernel

It should be enough to just building and installing the kernel. The freebsd-update should have patched the kernel src files anyway. bye Norman Am Dienstag, den 15.01.2008, 07:24 +0100 schrieb zbigniew szalbot: > Hello, > > > Norman Maurer pisze: > > Hi, > > > > the /usr/src/sys* stuff should b

Re: HOW-TO get Flash7 working!

Modulok wrote: Does anyone else have audio/video sync issues with linux-flashplugin7? Following the general procedure outlined in this thread, linux-flashplugin7 does work...sort of. The video proceeds the audio. This holds true for linux-opera and linux-firefox. The synch gap widens as time prog

Re: newest security patch and custom kernel

Hello again, Norman Maurer pisze: It should be enough to just building and installing the kernel. The freebsd-update should have patched the kernel src files anyway. Thank you for very helpful advice. One last question, is it necessary to restart the machine? Or can I keep it online after bu