RE: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-05 Thread Marc Coyles
> + not \; or you will fork on every result. > > Additionally, is this injected code one long string or broken down > by the > mailer? Grep isn't the best way to deal with it. It's pretty easy > to correct > with perl, bit trickier if it's multiline, still not too hard: > > find /home/horbury -ty

CARP on VMware ESX

2008-12-05 Thread Christian Ullrich
Hello all, I'm having trouble getting a CARP setup to work on VMware ESX. The problem: As soon as I configure the CARP interface, it first goes to MASTER state, then immediately drops to BACKUP, and stays there. Right now I have only one VM set up, so the reason is not that there's an active

Intro to a cool new webb-tv solution

2008-12-05 Thread Daniel Daboczy - DABBER
Dabber Newsletter Dabber | Newsletter December 2008 Example player | White paper pdf | IQube our new partner Hi, Since our last update, we have prepared a first example of the kind of online video= solutions we offer. It's a player with an intuitive, 3-dimensional navigat= ion - a cool and easy

RE: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-05 Thread Marc Coyles
> + not \; or you will fork on every result. > > Additionally, is this injected code one long string or broken down > by the > mailer? Grep isn't the best way to deal with it. It's pretty easy > to correct > with perl, bit trickier if it's multiline, still not too hard: > > find /home/horbury -ty

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm just curious to see how it looks for my own sanity's sake. At work, yes windows is much faster and much easier to use. it was told so many times on adverts and you still not understand that?! there are just strange people there that want to still use unix.

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Boosten
Marc Coyles wrote: > > I'm presuming it'd be: > > Find /home/horbury -type f -name "*.bak" -exec \ > Rm *.bak > find /home/horbury -name "*.bak" -exec rm {} \; Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-05 Thread Mel
On Friday 05 December 2008 10:17:46 Marc Coyles wrote: > > + not \; or you will fork on every result. > > > > Additionally, is this injected code one long string or broken down > > by the > > mailer? Grep isn't the best way to deal with it. It's pretty easy > > to correct > > with perl, bit trickie

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Peter Boosten wrote: | Marc Coyles wrote: |> I'm presuming it'd be: |> |> Find /home/horbury -type f -name "*.bak" -exec \ |> Rm *.bak |> | | find /home/horbury -name "*.bak" -exec rm {} \; | find /home/horbury -type f -name '*.bak' -delete '

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Wojciech Puchar < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm just curious to see how it looks for my own sanity's sake. At work, >> > > yes windows is much faster and much easier to use. it was told so many > times on adverts and you still not understand that?! > > there are

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Julien Cigar
What I find mist glaring when one moves from a Linux / FreeBSD system to a Windows system it's the virtual memory management, with the same amount of RAM Windows swaps a *lot* more. Regarding the usability, it's clear that they target different people, as Windows if mainly used by non-IT people ..

RE: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-05 Thread Marc Coyles
All done n' dusted now - thanks very much for everyone's input...! Have noted everything down in the back of my copy of "Absolute FreeBSD 2nd Edition" (which has inherited quite a few additional pages since I bought it). Now that that's done, I can start to wander thru logs and find who/how...

RE: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-05 Thread Marc Coyles
> All done n' dusted now - thanks very much for everyone's input...! > Have noted everything down in the back of my copy of "Absolute > FreeBSD 2nd Edition" (which has inherited quite a few additional > pages since I bought it). > > Now that that's done, I can start to wander thru logs and find >

Re: IPFW Firewall Question

2008-12-05 Thread Polytropon
Often discussed and adviced... On Thu, 4 Dec 2008 16:26:04 -0800 (PST), G magicman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > here is part of the configuration file so far that the Co-lo people put in. > [...] > #!/usr/local/bin/bash When possible, use the STANDARD form: #!/bin/sh Declare #!/usr/loc

Re: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-05 Thread Mel
On Friday 05 December 2008 11:19:09 Marc Coyles wrote: > > All done n' dusted now - thanks very much for everyone's input...! > > Have noted everything down in the back of my copy of "Absolute > > FreeBSD 2nd Edition" (which has inherited quite a few additional > > pages since I bought it). > > > >

Re: Image Programs

2008-12-05 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 07:00:43 +0100, Frank Bonnet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > G magicman wrote: > > Hello does anyone know the following > > > > 1. Does Freebsd have a program like Photoshop avail to use a copy-left GNU > > license type ? and a form of Thumbsplus which allows me to do rudimenta

Re: Image Programs

2008-12-05 Thread Mel
On Friday 05 December 2008 11:34:11 Polytropon wrote: > Furthermore, there's Krita, if you're already using KDE. Yep, it's getting more stable and is more intuitive for a novice/casual user then gimp, also less powerful, but that's a matter of time. > For automated image manipulations, ImageMag

Re: IPFW Firewall Question

2008-12-05 Thread Mel
On Friday 05 December 2008 01:26:04 G magicman wrote: > Why because of the following: > > 1. Hosts.access  on freebsd works on the Application Layer instead of the > Network Layer Therefore Hosts.allow/hosts.deny   no longer works the way i > want and i do not feel like running Sendmail and sshd o

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Ivan Voras
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I don't even know if this has been done before, nor do I know for sure > if it's a sound comparison. Never the less, someone posted, in response > to someone else here just a few days ago, some very nice benchmarks > provided by Kris ?Kenneway? I could be wrong o

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
No one in their right senses would spend time benchmarking FreeBSD (or any Unix variant) against Windows (oh, which version?). It's a waste of time. exactly what i meant. windows agains wine under FreeBSD? cygwin under windows against FreeBSD? Let those who use Windows use it and those who

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
a Windows system it's the virtual memory management, with the same amount of RAM Windows swaps a *lot* more. it may be not VM subsystem but memory usage of windoze software. or both. again - it's too different to be benchmarked ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
tools like bonnie++, blogbench and postmark under cygwin and the results are abysmal. It might be due to cygwin, and it might not. I've used rather not. all cygwin do is wrapping calls like read, lseek, open, write, close to windoze calls. Windows Enterprise Server 2003. You'll probably not

RE: Mass find/replace...

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Arse - I spoke too soon. Anyone know any perl to remove blank lines???! i don't know perl but grep -v ^$ will remove all empty lines ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Jerry
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 13:11:22 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> tools like bonnie++, blogbench and postmark under cygwin and the >> results are abysmal. It might be due to cygwin, and it might not. >> I've used > >rather not. all cygwin do is wrapping calls like read, lseek

Re: No /boot/kernel/kernel

2008-12-05 Thread Brian A. Seklecki
> FreeBSD/i386 boot > Default 0:ad(0,a)/boot/kernel/kernel > boot: > No /boot/kernel/kernel > > the same reappeared after i typed /boot/kernel.old/kernel. > WHAT DID WENT WRONG??? Any ideas? > _ Ugh 2nd stage boot loader should be given: Default: 0:ad(0

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Mel
On Friday 05 December 2008 13:58:18 Jerry wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 13:11:22 +0100 (CET) > > Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> tools like bonnie++, blogbench and postmark under cygwin and the > >> results are abysmal. It might be due to cygwin, and it might not. > >> I've used > > >

desperate Newb help

2008-12-05 Thread Warren Liddell
I have been trying for quite a while now to try and get some assistance from the various lists, google, forums an even man pages and so far not a single piece of advise on how to solve my issue and im getting desperate an ready to throw BSD in for goin back to godforbid windows, so once i again

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
Odhiambo Washington wrote: > No one in their right senses would spend time benchmarking FreeBSD (or any > Unix variant) against Windows (oh, which version?). It's a waste of time. > Let those who use Windows use it and those who like living in a world where > they are allowed to use their brains

Re: desperate Newb help

2008-12-05 Thread Mel
On Friday 05 December 2008 14:39:14 Warren Liddell wrote: > I have been trying for quite a while now to try and get some assistance > from the various lists, google, forums an even man pages and so far not > a single piece of advise on how to solve my issue and im getting > desperate an ready to th

Re: IPFW Firewall Question

2008-12-05 Thread Steve Bertrand
G magicman wrote: > 1. I need help to reconfigure my firewall on the server using BSD's ipfw What part do you need to reconfigure? > 2. short of a reboot how do you start stop and restart the firewall Very, very carefully. Until I gained some extensive experience with IPFW, I would wrap the fi

Re: QT4 compilation problem

2008-12-05 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:39:14 +1000, Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I have been trying for quite a while now to try and get some > assistance from the various lists, google, forums an even man pages > and so far not a single piece of advise on how to solve my issue and > im getting

Re: QT4 compilation problem

2008-12-05 Thread Mel
On Friday 05 December 2008 15:15:07 Patrick Lamaizière wrote: > Le Fri, 05 Dec 2008 23:39:14 +1000, > > Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > I have been trying for quite a while now to try and get some > > assistance from the various lists, google, forums an even man pages > > and so fa

DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Polytropon
Hi! I'd like to ask which program is the proper tool to copy a DVD(+|-)R 1:1 to another media of the same kind? It would be great if the program would have a good error tolerance for slightly defective media (which is a usual problem with cheap DVDs). I've always used cdrdao read-cd and afterward

IPFilter section in Handbook needs updating

2008-12-05 Thread Dean Weimer
I was just setting up ipfilter and ipmon on a FreeBSD 7 server, and noticed that the ipmon and syslog information under the ipfilter section of the handbook is incorrect. The section reads: -snip- 31.5.7 IPMON Logging Syslogd uses its own special method for segregation of log data. It us

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Polytropon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I'd like to ask which program is the proper tool to copy > a DVD(+|-)R 1:1 to another media of the same kind? It > would be great if the program would have a good error > tolerance for slightly defective media (which i

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Just for the record, I believe that "those who like living in a world where they are allowed to use their brain" use whatever OS gets the job done for a particular task or task set. yes it means that. that's why they don't use windows as it's useless for them __

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'd like to ask which program is the proper tool to copy a DVD(+|-)R 1:1 to another media of the same kind? It would be great if the program would have a good error tolerance for slightly defective media (which is a usual problem with cheap DVDs). I've always used cdrdao read-cd and afterwards c

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
dd if=/dev/cd0 of=filename.iso bs=2048 bs=64k or more. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 09:42:58 -0600, "Andrew Gould" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your CD or DVD is loaded (not mounted) at /dev/cd0, the following command > will create an iso image in the current directory: > > dd if=/dev/cd0 of=filename.iso bs=2048 > > If you want an easy process, you can

Re: desperate Newb help

2008-12-05 Thread Brian
Mel wrote: On Friday 05 December 2008 14:39:14 Warren Liddell wrote: I have been trying for quite a while now to try and get some assistance from the various lists, google, forums an even man pages and so far not a single piece of advise on how to solve my issue and im getting desperate an ready

Re: IPFilter section in Handbook needs updating

2008-12-05 Thread Chris
On Dec 5, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Dean Weimer wrote: I was just setting up ipfilter and ipmon on a FreeBSD 7 server, and noticed that the ipmon and syslog information under the ipfilter section of the handbook is incorrect. A couple of years back, I submitted a one liner to some email address o

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 03:58:23AM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > On Thu, 2008-12-04 at 10:49 -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 12:57:45PM +1000, Da Rock wrote: > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2008-12-03 at 20:55 -0500, Robert Huff wrote: > > > > Da Rock writes: > > > > > > > > > Exc

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thanks, dd is a good suggestion for ISO data. But what I need once again please do man dd dd reads sector by sector. it won't work only for audio-sectors on CD , on DVD movies are stored using "normal" 2K sectors ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Mel
On Friday 05 December 2008 16:11:12 Polytropon wrote: > So far I've used growisofs to record pre-mastered ISO > file systems, but I don't want to make it that complicated > (mound source DVD, mkisofs, growisofs / burn this ISO > to destination DVD) if it can be avoided. It's not > neccessary to pe

Re: Gnome slow at start up

2008-12-05 Thread Fernando Apesteguía
On Fri, Dec 5, 2008 at 5:58 AM, Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 04 December 2008 19:51:32 Fernando Apesteguía wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-BETA 2 and I have some problems with Gnome at start >> up. >> >> When I type startx, I get the gnome desktop and the nice border

Re: IPSec + vpn + multicast

2008-12-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 17:02:05 nrml nrml wrote: > Hello, > > I followed the handbook instructions and the ipsec(4) man page to setup > vpn-over-ipsec for our company's site-to-site connection via our > dedicated T1. Anyway I have it working but I found that I need to make > sure that multic

Anyone tried Dspace on FreeBSD?

2008-12-05 Thread Krahmer, Ana
Has anyone here tried running DSpace on FreeBSD? ~~ Ana Krahmer Programmer/Analyst III TTU Southwest Collection Phone: 806-742-9020 x277 Fax: 806-742-3157 "If you don't find it in the index, look very carefully through the entire catalogue." ~~Sears Consumer Guide

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 01:09:36PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >a Windows system it's the virtual memory management, with the same > >amount of RAM Windows swaps a *lot* more. > > it may be not VM subsystem but memory usage of windoze software. or both. > > again - it's too different to be be

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 12:20:49PM +0100, Ivan Voras wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I don't even know if this has been done before, nor do I know for sure > > if it's a sound comparison. Never the less, someone posted, in response > > to someone else here just a few days ago, so

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:30:20 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm just curious to see how it looks for my own sanity's sake. At > work, someone got the grand idea that we should move to Windoze > embedded (CE and XPe) and it's been quite discouraging I must say, > though I must admit, it's nice to

Re: Gnome slow at start up

2008-12-05 Thread Mel
On Friday 05 December 2008 17:23:10 Fernando Apesteguía wrote: > > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=445 > > Hi Mel, thanks a lot. > > The --purge-delay=5000 and --warn-delay=5000 options for gnome-session > fixed the problem. > > However, this triggers another question. Since these optio

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 02:26:50PM +0100, Mel wrote: > > Well, one can find stories like this of course: > http://www.postgis.org/documentation/casestudies/globexplorer/ > > But I'm sure one can find some of the contrary. It does show the value of the > benchmark: Is it economically viable to us

Re: Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread af300wsm
On Dec 5, 2008 9:34am, Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:30:20 + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm just curious to see how it looks for my own sanity's sake. At > work, someone got the grand idea that we should move to Windoze > embedded (CE and XPe) and it's bee

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Mel
On Friday 05 December 2008 17:45:37 Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 02:26:50PM +0100, Mel wrote: > > Well, one can find stories like this of course: > > http://www.postgis.org/documentation/casestudies/globexplorer/ > > > > But I'm sure one can find some of the contrary. It does show t

Re: IPFilter section in Handbook needs updating

2008-12-05 Thread G magicman
And incomplete yes i agree that the doc does need to be updated and examples (more) need to be added. --- On Fri, 12/5/08, Dean Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Dean Weimer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: IPFilter section in Handbook needs updating To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Fri

what is umtxn

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i've got once my asterisk process in umtxn state (as top shows) using 100% CPU. it was still answering calls. what's umtxn exactly? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The userland win32 API might be rather unpleasant but I was surprised to learn to driver interface in the kernel is actually quite nice, and whatever ideas/solutions microsoft do it's f..ked up or stolen. the stolen case is actually better :) isn't too dissimilar to FreeBSD in some ways. In t

Re: what is umtxn

2008-12-05 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:35:34 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i've got once my asterisk process in umtxn state (as top shows) using > 100% CPU. > > it was still answering calls. > > what's umtxn exactly? A kernel lock operation. ``procstat -k PID'' may show more details a

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:47:50 -0800 "Nerius Landys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I believe that the fix for this is to add a dependency > to /etc/rc.d/ntpd script, adding "named" to "REQUIRE" section in > comments. In your opinion, is this a robust fix? For example the > line in my /etc/rc.d/nt

Re: IPFW Firewall Question

2008-12-05 Thread G magicman
I have tried this it did not work and the Co-Lo people are convinced that sshd and sendmail need to be run out of inetd.conf for this to work As i said i am used to BSDI  and the Finnish SSHD Also here they are using the combined hosts.allow/deny  with the deny inside which i never liked Tha

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 05:18:01PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >Thanks, dd is a good suggestion for ISO data. But what I need > > once again please do > man dd > > dd reads sector by sector. > > it won't work only for audio-sectors on CD , on DVD movies are stored > using "normal" 2K se

Re: what is umtxn

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
100% CPU. it was still answering calls. what's umtxn exactly? A kernel lock operation. ``procstat -k PID'' may show more details about the in-kernel stack of the process that spins on the lock. thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Agree that dd is good for simple CDs and DVDs but can't say that I know it will behave on multi-session or multi-format discs. the question was about DVD. dvd are not produced multisession or multiformat. and when copying multisession data DVD, it's much better to copy off all files, possib

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread David Kelly
On Fri, Dec 05, 2008 at 08:45:52PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > > >Agree that dd is good for simple CDs and DVDs but can't say that I know > >it will behave on multi-session or multi-format discs. > > the question was about DVD. dvd are not produced multisession or > multiformat. The above

Re: desperate Newb help

2008-12-05 Thread Warren Liddell
I have no idea why 'configure' is run. No configure is run for me at all. Looks like your ports tree isn't sane. How do you upgrade your portstree? Instead of using portupgrade, could you just execute the following: make -C /usr/ports/databases/qt4-sql clean build If youre new to freebsd, p

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-05 Thread Nerius Landys
> This shouldn't be needed as ntpd already requires ntpdate and in > turn ntpdate requires named. The issue is probably timing - that named > isn't ready. Actually, the REQUIRE thing in the /etc/rc.d scripts means "if the required service is enabled, start it before this one". It does not mean "

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 13:22:29 -0800 "Nerius Landys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This shouldn't be needed as ntpd already requires ntpdate and in > > turn ntpdate requires named. The issue is probably timing - that > > named isn't ready. > > Actually, the REQUIRE thing in the /etc/rc.d scripts

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-05 Thread Nerius Landys
> That's not correct. BEFORE and REQUIRE are used by rcorder to > determine the ordering of the scripts without checking if they are > enabled. Actually all scripts get run - if you don't enable ntpdate then > rc.d/ntpdate still runs, but doesn't do anything. My mistake. But then I don't unders

Re: DVD cloning tool

2008-12-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thought readcd (out of cdrtools) also knew how to read DVD? at least some time ago i tried - it doesn't read ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-05 Thread cpghost
RW wrote: On Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:47:50 -0800 "Nerius Landys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I believe that the fix for this is to add a dependency to /etc/rc.d/ntpd script, adding "named" to "REQUIRE" section in comments. In your opinion, is this a robust fix? For example the line in my /etc/r

QT4.5 packages

2008-12-05 Thread Warren Liddell
Does anyone have or know of where to download the pkg files for the various Qt4.5 ports as using pkg_add is the only way im able to add them atm. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

custom kernel

2008-12-05 Thread PJ
I'm somewhat perturbed and feeling like somebody is laughing at me or at all of us. It used to be fairly easy to install FBSD, but now it seems to be an incredibly complicated task. I have installed and reinstalled a number of distributions from FBSD 4 or earlier up to the present 7.0. It used t

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-05 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:10:19 -0500, PJ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > linking kernel > uvscom.o (.text+0x293): In function 'uvscom_attach' ; > :undefined reference to 'ucom_attach' etc. > *** Error code 1 > > did I do something wrong? system is still on and functioning but how > do I make th

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-05 Thread Michael Powell
PJ wrote: [snip] Read carefully: > uvscom.o (.text+0x293): In function 'uvscom_attach' ; > :undefined reference to 'ucom_attach' etc. > *** Error code 1 See further down at bottom. > did I do something wrong? system is still on and functioning but how do > I make the custom kernel? The ca

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-05 Thread PJ
Michael Powell wrote: PJ wrote: [snip] Read carefully: uvscom.o (.text+0x293): In function 'uvscom_attach' ; :undefined reference to 'ucom_attach' etc. *** Error code 1 See further down at bottom. did I do something wrong? system is still on and functioning but how do I make the custo

cups issue, unsupported format

2008-12-05 Thread af300wsm
Hi, I'm working on getting cups working and I've installed the "hplip" port and the cups program used that to install the printer. At least, there was an "HPLIP" in a list in one of the pages during the setup. My printer is an old HP LaserJet 4+ which I've connected through the parallel por

Re: Performance benchmarks pitting FreeBSD against Windows

2008-12-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:36:45 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The userland win32 API might be rather unpleasant but I was > > surprised to learn to driver interface in the kernel is actually > > quite nice, and > > whatever ideas/solutions microsoft do it's f..ked up or s

Re: named and ntpd start order in rc.d

2008-12-05 Thread RW
On Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:11:38 +0100 cpghost <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > RW wrote: > > I have a similar issue with PPP not having connected by the time > > ntpdate runs , so I just have a script that runs between named and > > ntpdate, and blocks waiting for access. > > > Those timing / start-o

"Sticky" mouse pointer on machine with high load

2008-12-05 Thread Yuri
Often when my machine has load is 2 or higher it becomes very visible that mouse motion isn't smooth. Mouse moves in a series of quite long jumps. I believe this effect is especially pronounced when some applications read/write a lot of files. My understanding is that this is because signal fro

Re: what is umtxn

2008-12-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 05 Dec 2008 21:16:12 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 5 Dec 2008 19:35:34 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i've got once my asterisk process in umtxn state (as top shows) > > using 100% CPU. > > > > it was still answering calls. > >

Re: what is umtxn

2008-12-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 03:36:29AM +, RW wrote: > What's procstat? find isn't finding it, neither is "make search" in > ports. It's a new utility that was introduced into -CURRENT in the past year and seems to have been MFC'd at least to 7.x. It should be in /usr/bin -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: custom kernel

2008-12-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
PJ wrote: > Michael Powell wrote: >> PJ wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >> Read carefully: >> >>> uvscom.o (.text+0x293): In function 'uvscom_attach' ; >>> :undefined reference to 'ucom_attach' etc. >>> *** Error code 1 >> >> See further down at bottom. >> >>> did I do something wrong? system is still o

Re: Downgrading Ports

2008-12-05 Thread Benjamin Lee
On 12/04/08 02:53, Marcel Grandemange wrote: >> Good Day Guys. >> >> Im wondering how can one downgrade ports? >> And I don't mean installed ports (portdowngrade) , I mean the actual >> ports system. >> >> I have found the freeradius2 port to be broken and can't install it >> therefore I would li

Re: UFS partitioning

2008-12-05 Thread perryh
> Dangerous is probably overstating the issue a bit ... AFAIK the "danger" is that someone boots the machine with an installer for some other OS, and that installer treats the disk as unformatted -- hence "obviously" containing nothing important -- because it doesn't have a recognizable MBR. _

Re: QT4.5 packages

2008-12-05 Thread perryh
Warren Liddell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone have or know of where to download the pkg files > for the various Qt4.5 ports as using pkg_add is the only way > im able to add them atm. You can find many packages for several releases under ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386