Re: Suggestion

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:26:03AM -0500, Ryan da Silva wrote: > Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo > "FreeBSD" is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me > of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the > BBS. But it`s 200

Re: (no subject)

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Sydney Longfellow wrote: > Greetings. > > I am having a problem with processes building up until the server locks > up. By viewing top what I'm seeing is it going up to 400 processes with > most sleeping and a lot of lockf and sbwait states on the processes. > > An

Re: iwi on 7-STABLE

Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 2:06:55 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark said: > Peter Harrison wrote: > > Tuesday, 30 December 2008 at 23:49:23 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark said: > > > >> Hi all, > >> > >> Here I am away with the family visiting friends and I REALLY need > >> to get the iwi if up and runn

OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so what value of x in xU should I get? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fr

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:48:30PM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: > > > On 4 jan 2009, at 14:35, "Glen Barber" wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman > > > >> Small related question is there any long term harm to laying a disk > >> on > >> it's side (i.e. it lays flat wh

USB printer problem

Hi; I've been trying for 2 days with no success Here is the setup: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE #0: Wed Dec 10 22:25:05 BRT 200 -printer detected kernel: ulpt0: HP Deskjet D1500 series, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 kernel: ulpt0: using bi-directional mode /etc/devfs.conf own ulpt0 root:cups

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:30:50AM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman > wrote: > > I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and > > all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so what value of x > > in xU should I get?

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

Erik Trulsson wrote: > I suspect that many co-location services either only accepts rack-mountable > servers, or charge extra for non-rackmounted cases, so it might be worth > checking that. A non-rackmountable case would require a shelf of some sort, which costs money and generally uses up a bit

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

Jon Radel wrote: > Erik Trulsson wrote: > > >> I suspect that many co-location services either only accepts rack-mountable >> servers, or charge extra for non-rackmounted cases, so it might be worth >> checking that. >> > > A non-rackmountable case would require a shelf of some sort, which

PATH braincramp

I'm having a tussle with one of those things I've done a zillion times, but now I can't fathom what the heck is wrong. When I run flexbackup from a cron job (as root) , the following error is returned by e-mail to root: Errors: mbuffer not found in $PATH dump not found in $PATH restore not fo

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

Erik Trulsson wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:30:50AM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: > >> On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman >> wrote: >> >>> I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and >>> all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so wh

Re: PATH braincramp

On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:48:36 -0500, Tim Kellers wrote: > I'm having a tussle with one of those things I've done a zillion times, > but now I can't fathom what the heck is wrong. > > When I run flexbackup from a cron job (as root) , the following error is > returned by e-mail to root: > > Errors: >

Re: USB printer problem

On Sunday 04 January 2009 2:21:34 pm Mario Lobo wrote: > Hi; > > I've been trying for 2 days with no success > > Here is the setup: > > FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE #0: Wed Dec 10 22:25:05 BRT 200 > > -printer detected > > kernel: ulpt0: HP Deskjet D1500 series, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 > kernel: ul

Re[2]: local copy of handbook

Hello Jerry, >>For more information see http://docsnap.sk.freebsd.org/ and possibly >>the rsync manual page. > I was having a problem reaching that URL; however, I found that this > one: http://www.oook.cz/bsd/docsnap.html did seem to work. In any case, > I am unable to get the 'rsync' command to

Re: USB printer problem

On Sunday 04 January 2009 14:18:06 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009 2:21:34 pm Mario Lobo wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I've been trying for 2 days with no success > > > > Here is the setup: > > > > FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE #0: Wed Dec 10 22:25:05 BRT 200 > > > > -printer detected > > > > kernel

DNS Forwarder, Proxy or ?

I have set up a FreeBSD box as a router; works great. The router (machine B) is a DHCP client to another box (Machine A) that provides it with its IP address and its DNS server address. When I hook up a new box (Machine C) to Machine B, I provide it with Machine B's private IP address as its def

Re: Setting up a PDF printer

On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Keith Seyffarth wrote: What do I need to install to make printing a pdf from the print command in an appliction as an option. It looks like panda may do this, but I'm unsure. My immediate goal is to be able to print invoices to .pdf from gnucash. If the program lets you

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

Glen Barber wrote: > On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman > wrote: > >> I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and >> all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so what value of x >> in xU should I get? >> > > When it comes to rackmounts,

tcpdump filter for out/in traffic

Здравствуйте, Questions. There will be very usefull to have options for tcpdump to monitor incomint or outgoing traffic regardless of src/dst IPs or ports or protocol For example: kes# tcpdump -n -i rl4 out EXPECTED: show traffic outgoing on rl4 ACTUAL: tcpdump: syntax error kes# tcpdump -n -i

Re: local copy of handbook

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:28:46 +0100 Daniel Gerzo wrote: >The docsnap.sk.FreeBSD.org (as well as ftp.sk and cvsup.sk) server is >currently offline due to some problems after its update. > >Unfortunately it's been a vacations period here and we were unable to >get personally to the box and fix it. Ho

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

If a hard disk formatted and used in a position , in that position it may be used if manufacturer is NOT advised a specific position . After loading of files into hard disk , change of position may cause difficulty in reading of already recorded data . This point should be considered . On Sun, J

(no subject)

Greetings. I am having a problem with processes building up until the server locks up. By viewing top what I'm seeing is it going up to 400 processes with most sleeping and a lot of lockf and sbwait states on the processes. Any idea what would cause this? Thanks! __

Re: PATH braincramp

Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:48:36 -0500, Tim Kellers wrote: I'm having a tussle with one of those things I've done a zillion times, but now I can't fathom what the heck is wrong. When I run flexbackup from a cron job (as root) , the following error is returned by e-mail

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

On 4 jan 2009, at 14:35, "Glen Barber" wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman > Small related question is there any long term harm to laying a disk on it's side (i.e. it lays flat when the tower is up right but on it's side squeezed into a rack) The ideal answer is 'n

Re: local copy of handbook

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:59:04 -0500 Randy Pratt wrote: >On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:39:42 +0530 >Masoom Shaikh wrote: > >> On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: >> > On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 >> > "Masoom Shaikh" wrote: >> > >> > lso I cud use tarballs from FTP, but is there easy way

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: > I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and > all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so what value of x > in xU should I get? When it comes to rackmounts, 1U = 1.75 inches. 2U would be 3.5 inches

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman > Small related question is there any long term harm to laying a disk on > it's side (i.e. it lays flat when the tower is up right but on it's side > squeezed into a rack) > The ideal answer is 'no'. The 'safe' answer is 'possibly'. In other wor

Re: local copy of handbook

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:27:31 +0530, "Masoom Shaikh" wrote: >On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: >>> I'd be happy to review the patch that Gabor has written & if >>> necessary add or subtract from it. >>> >>> It will take me a bit of time to get up to speed with the mark-up &

Re: Suggestion

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 01:07:57 -0600 (CST), Lars Eighner wrote: > Enable beastie and you won't have to look at the ugly letters. Or disable the lines include /boot/beastie.4th and beastie-start prefixing them with a backslash in /boot/loader.rc, and put autoboot_delay="

Re: Suggestion

Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo "FreeBSD" is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, enterprise-grade operating sys

Re: Suggestion

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Ryan da Silva wrote: > Hello, > > > > If someone could pass this suggestion on i'd appreciate it. It's going > to sound a little picky, and probably crazy but I'm an honest and > forward person so I'll just say it. > > > > Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot me

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

1U=4.5cm On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so what value of x in xU should I get? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: iwi on 7-STABLE

Peter Harrison wrote: Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 2:06:55 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark said: Peter Harrison wrote: Tuesday, 30 December 2008 at 23:49:23 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark said: Hi all, Here I am away with the family visiting friends and I REALLY need to get the iwi if up and running

Re: PHP setup question

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:00:44PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:51:15PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > Looking at the doc, you referenced, it appears that I should be able to > > connect to beachcave.net/install.php > > > > Doing so resluts in: > > > > The requested URL

Re: PHP setup question

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:00:44PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:51:15PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > Looking at the doc, you referenced, it appears that I should be able to > > connect to beachcave.net/install.php > > > > Doing so resluts in: > > > > The requested URL

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

Wojciech Puchar wrote: > 1U=4.5cm Approximately :) At least in the US, 1U = 1.75 inches = 4.445 cm, so an 18cm case will not quite fit into 4U. Perhaps metric racks are different. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

> If a hard disk formatted and used in a position , in that position > it may be used if manufacturer is NOT advised a specific position. > After loading of files into hard disk , change of position may > cause difficulty in reading of already recorded data . This point > should be considered . S

Re: Troubles upgrading from 6.3 to 7

Steven Barre wrote: Hello I am new to bsd. I'm trying to upgrade from 6.3 Release to the latest stable 7. I created the following csup file *default host=cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default

Re: Troubles upgrading from 6.3 to 7

Steven Barre wrote: Hello I am new to bsd. I'm trying to upgrade from 6.3 Release to the latest stable 7. I created the following csup file *default host=cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default

Re: Portuguese accents

On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:47:08PM +, Daniel Leal wrote: > > Hi! > > I am portuguese, and so I need accents above a few letter, like a, e and > i. I mean: ã â á à é è í ì ê, etc etc etc... > I am really confused with the accents. > > In most X apps these accents work well, but for example, i

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

1U=4.5cm Approximately :) at least in poland it's said that. i must check in my 12U rack ;) At least in the US, 1U = 1.75 inches = 4.445 cm, so an 18cm case will not quite fit into 4U. Perhaps metric racks are different. well it will with slight amount of pressure ;) to compensate this

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

freebsd-questions: I'm building a fresh Amanda server using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=misc&portname=amand a-server Most of my software background is GNU/Linux. I would prefer using the Bash shell, but the default FreeBSD shell for root app

Re: PATH braincramp

> Giorgios, THANK YOU! i'll second that! he is helpfull and polite, as always! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@free

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

> Does anybody know if it's okay to change the root shell? A topic of debate, but yes it is okay to change the root shell, but there are some things to know... Some people fret about the idea that shells like bash are not on the root partition and are usually dynamically linked to libraries which

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:09 PM, David Christensen wrote: > freebsd-questions: > > I'm building a fresh Amanda server using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386: > > > http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=misc&portname=amand > a-server

Re: Suggestion

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:02:53PM +0100, cpghost wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:26:03AM -0500, Ryan da Silva wrote: > > Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo > > "FreeBSD" is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me > > of the 1990`s with BBS

Re: Suggestion

> > "FreeBSD" is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me > > of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the > > BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, > > enterprise-grade operating system and the silly ASCII logo is the only > > thing tha

make pdf from webpage on webserver (no x11)

Trying to figure out how to print a webpage on the server, without a gui.. On the local test webserver that we have we are trying to figure out how we can from php (or anything else) print a webpage to a pdf.. Anyone have a clue as to how to do this? Or is this some major php programming to m

Re: make pdf from webpage on webserver (no x11)

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 07:35:03PM -0500, B. Cook wrote: > Trying to figure out how to print a webpage on the server, without a gui.. > > On the local test webserver that we have we are trying to figure out how > we can from php (or anything else) print a webpage to a pdf.. > > Anyone have a clue

Re: USB printer problem

On Sunday 04 January 2009 14:18:06 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: > On Sunday 04 January 2009 2:21:34 pm Mario Lobo wrote: > > Hi; > > > > I've been trying for 2 days with no success > > > > Here is the setup: > > > > FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE #0: Wed Dec 10 22:25:05 BRT 200 > > > > -printer detected > > > > kernel

Re: Suggestion

Re: Suggestion Thanks everyone. The serial console is a good point. Ryan Sent from my BlackBerry Wireless Handheld - Original Message - From: Modulok To: Frank Shute ; cpghost ; Ryan da Silva; freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 12:42:02PM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > If a hard disk formatted and used in a position , in that position > > it may be used if manufacturer is NOT advised a specific position. > > After loading of files into hard disk , change of position may > > cause difficult

Re: [6.3] Assigning "shutdown" to eg. Syst?

At 07:08 23/12/2008, Ian Smith wrote: On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Robert Huff wrote: > Ian Smith writes: > > > Or let your dad login with his own account and password. Just > > add him to the operator group so that he can run /sbin/shutdown. > > If that's the only priveledged command he ne

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

Hi, > The only reason I said tower is I am making the server almost identical > to my desktop machine which is the most reliable machine I have had in > my 20 year career and thus am going to be using the same case and such I'd be afraid that the "almost" would be enough to break the reliability

FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work

> I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN > system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting > I can't ping the gateway nor anything beyond it ... It turned out the only problem was the absence of NAT Traversal Mode cisco-udp in vpnc.conf. (Presumab

Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

Just FWIW, the "proper" way to do "online expansion" with ZFS is quite different than that of a RAID controller, as doing a regular OCE process is quite difficult in ZFS (due to the variable-size stripes that ZFS uses, which makes the simple expansion of regular RAID-5 or RAID-6 not workable

zip files...

guys, i have three huge zip files, .zip, and z02, z01. how do i unzip these into the original? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.17a release of Jottings: http://jot

Re: zip files...

On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:48:21 -0800 Gary Kline wrote: > how do i unzip these into the original? > hello gary, use unzip filename. if you don't have (un)zip installed you can get them with pkg_add -r zip unzip (assuming you can become root) -- In friendship, prad

why printf() don't work?

I use FreeBSD7.0,and use signal,like follows: signal(SIGHUP,sig_hup); signal(SIGIO,sig_io); when I run call following code,it can run,but I find a puzzled question,it should print some information,such as printf("execute main()") will print execute main(),but in fact,printf fuction print none!!!

Re: zip files...

On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:36:27PM -0800, prad wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:48:21 -0800 > Gary Kline wrote: > > > how do i unzip these into the original? > > > hello gary, > > use unzip filename. > > if you don't have (un)zip installed you can get them with > > pkg_add -r zip unzip > (assumi