Re: clear old output in login screen?

2009-05-05 Thread perryh
Mike Clarke wrote: > On Monday 04 May 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: ... > > ? #!/bin/csh > > ? clear > > ? vidcontrol -C > > ? exec /usr/bin/login.real "$@" > > But this wouldn't prevent someone scrolling back with the scroll > lock key before logging in. I assume the OP's requirement is to >

Re: clear old output in login screen?

2009-05-05 Thread Mike Clarke
On Tuesday 05 May 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Mike Clarke wrote: > > On Monday 04 May 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > ... > > > > ? #!/bin/csh > > > ? clear > > > ? vidcontrol -C > > > ? exec /usr/bin/login.real "$@" > > > > But this wouldn't prevent someone scrolling back with th

Snapshots

2009-05-05 Thread Johan Hendriks
Are there no more snapshots of current? The last is from 02-2009 Regards, Johan ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@

vtund&linux client

2009-05-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i wanted to give IPv6 tunnel to someone running linux with vtund added position as usual to vtund.conf (there are already many tunnels), and he can't connect. In FreeBSD you have to add VTUN_EXTENDED_MODE=yes to /etc/make.conf before compiling from ports to have IPv6 support. in linux - i d

Dump snapshot issue...

2009-05-05 Thread Marc Coyles
I've got a script that dumps various filesystems to tape for me, but I've always had an issue whenever I've used the -L option... see below: /usr/bin/mt rewind /sbin/dump 0aLuf /dev/sa0 / dump: Cannot create //.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory /sbin/dump 0aLuf /dev/sa0 /home mksnap_f

ATI woes

2009-05-05 Thread Old Crankbuster
Thought I'd throw this one out there: I installed release 7.1 while waiting for 7.2 to download, used the handbook to configure X, get Gnome up and running, and start learning the system. The graphics chip on this laptop is ati hd 3200, and the standard X radeon driver worked ok. Cleaned every

Re: FOR MARK

2009-05-05 Thread cpghost
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 07:25:47AM +1000, Warren Liddell wrote: > After finally managing to get some encoding options from this list > everything went smoothley untill it got to the burning part .. below is > the error i got > > enterprise# ls > dvd.iso > enterprise# growisofs -dvd-video -Z

MAKE_JOBS_SAFE et al. missing in documentation?

2009-05-05 Thread cpghost
Shouldn't the following variables be mentioned in the Porter's Handbook and in ports(7)? (from /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk) # MAKE_JOBS_SAFE #- This port can safely be built on multiple cpus in parallel. # The make will be invoked with -jX parameter where X equals # number of cores pr

Re: Apache won't start - undefined symbol "libintl_bindtextdomain"

2009-05-05 Thread turutani
Bill Somerson wrote: > > "I did a "make config" in avahi-app (which is where libintl.so.8 came > from)" > > Sorry, I meant avahi-app is where libavahi-common.so.3 came from (which is > the thing that's complaining about a lack of libintl_bindtextdomain). > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 12:46 PM,

Re: clear old output in login screen?

2009-05-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 09:45:16AM +0100, Mike Clarke wrote: > > On Tuesday 05 May 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > Mike Clarke wrote: > > > On Monday 04 May 2009, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > > > > ... > > > > > > ? #!/bin/csh > > > > ? clear > > > > ? vidcontrol -C > > > > ? exec /usr

How can I extract differences between 2 folders ?

2009-05-05 Thread Yavuz Maşlak
Hello I use freebsd7.1 I have two folders which contains some expressions in everyline as following; File A: abcde 12345 etc. File B: xyzas 12345 etc As above some strings are same and some strings are different. There are several differents between these two files. When I run diff command

Re: Broken Partition

2009-05-05 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, May 03, 2009 at 06:26:42PM -0700, Chris Chambers wrote: > > Hi, > > Using partition magic, I freed some space from my msdos partition. > Then using sysinstall's fdisk and label, I attempted to add the > space to my freebsd partition. I broke the installation. The boot > loader can not find

Using portsuprade only for security

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
I ran a portsupgrade scan, and was presented with a long list of installed ports and whether an update was available. In general, I prefer not to update ports/packages between FreeBSD releases. An obvious exception to this general rules is the patching of security vulnerabilities; of course not all

Re: Using portsuprade only for security

2009-05-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Daniel Underwood wrote: > I ran a portsupgrade scan, and was presented with a long list of > installed ports and whether an update was available. In general, I > prefer not to update ports/packages between FreeBSD releases. An > obvious exception to this general rules is the patching of security >

Re: Using portsuprade only for security

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Bye
On Tue, May 05, 2009 at 08:37:28AM -0400, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I ran a portsupgrade scan, and was presented with a long list of > installed ports and whether an update was available. In general, I > prefer not to update ports/packages between FreeBSD releases. An > obvious exception to this ge

Re: Using portsuprade only for security

2009-05-05 Thread Tim Judd
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:37 AM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I ran a portsupgrade scan, and was presented with a long list of > installed ports and whether an update was available. In general, I > prefer not to update ports/packages between FreeBSD releases. An > obvious exception to this general rul

Re: Apache errors.

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Smith
Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: Hi! Have you tried to recompile the port from which that library came? (pkg_info -W /usr/local/lib/libavahi-common.so.3 should help you finding the correct port if you do not know which port that is) Armin On Sun 03 May 2009, Jeff Molofee wrote: Just started getting

Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
I'm looking to purchase a >= 1TB external harddrive, because I'm running out of room on my 300GB external. Anyone have good experience with any particular brands? I really don't know how different brands compare in reliability to one another. Of course I plan to check CNet and other online revie

Re: Dump snapshot issue...

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Wright
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Marc Coyles wrote: I've got a script that dumps various filesystems to tape for me, but I've always had an issue whenever I've used the -L option... see below: /usr/bin/mt rewind /sbin/dump 0aLuf /dev/sa0 / dump: Cannot create //.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory

Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Wright
On Tue, 5 May 2009, Daniel Underwood wrote: and other online reviews. But I also wanted to see if any of you folks have personal recommendations. I had an unpleasant experience with Maxtor/Seagate support this year. I had one of their OneTouch III's pack up after 6 mo, and the warranty replac

RE: Dump snapshot issue...

2009-05-05 Thread Marc Coyles
> You probably have not created the .snap directory in the root of > the filesystem. Like I said... "The .snap folders exist at all points, are set to root:operator, with perms 770... The dump_snapshot files seem to be present, albeit 0 bytes, root:operator, perms 400..." Marc _

Re: How can I extract differences between 2 folders ?

2009-05-05 Thread Polytropon
Hi, I don't want to sound impolite, but I think it's important that you know the correct terminology: On Tue, 5 May 2009 10:33:19 +0300, Yavuz Maşlak wrote: > I use freebsd7.1 > > I have two folders [...] In UNIX, there are no "folders". These are called directories. To avoid misunderstandings

Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
warranty replacement died out of the box. It took 69 days as well as dozens of phone calls + emails to get a replacement for the dead replacement. while i never had problems with warranty on hard drives (only internal but anyway), it always took 2-3 weeks. shop where i bought it handled it f

Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Daniel Underwood wrote: > I'm looking to purchase a >= 1TB external harddrive, because I'm > running out of room on my 300GB external. Anyone have good experience > with any particular brands? I really don't know how different brands > compare in reliability to one another. Of course I plan to c

Re: How can I extract differences between 2 folders ?

2009-05-05 Thread Armin Pirkovitsch
First of all I suppose you're talking about 2 files, not folders. In which case the command you're using isn't looking so bad since it shows the differences between file "a" and file "b": > diff --suppress-common-lines -w -y a b abcde | xya

Upgrading jails to 7.2-RELEASE with freebsd-update

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Turgeon
Hi everyone, It's the first time I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to a new release. I just upgraded the base system from 7.1-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE and everything went fine. I now wanted to upgrade my jails to the new release but freebsd-update is telling me that's already update

Re: Upgrading jails to 7.2-RELEASE with freebsd-update

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 17:37:42 Martin Turgeon wrote: > Hi everyone, > > It's the first time I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to a > new release. I just upgraded the base system from 7.1-RELEASE to > 7.2-RELEASE and everything went fine. I now wanted to upgrade my jails > to the new re

Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 05 May 2009 at 07:44:06 PDT Manolis Kiagias wrote: I recently replaced my Lacie external hardrive (used for backup) with a WD MyBook. The Lacie was about two years old and the USB interface failed. The disk is still ok. I believe this came along as a result of faulty design decisions: -

ath_hal problem on slow hardware, can be tuned?

2009-05-05 Thread Luke Dean
I'm following 7-STABLE with my laptop. As soon as ath_hal appeared, I started having trouble with my wireless connection dropping every few hours. +ath0: ath_chan_set: unable to reset channel 11 (2462 Mhz, flags 0x480 hal flags 0xc0), hal status 3 The ath manpage documents this error as: ath

Measuring CPU usage via SNMP

2009-05-05 Thread Maxim Khitrov
Hello all, Simple question - does the sum of differences in ssCpuRawIdle, ssCpuRawUser, ssCpuRawNice, ssCpuRawKernel, and ssCpuRawInterrupt OIDs on a FreeBSD 7.2 system give me total CPU allocation (i.e. is a constant)? I've configured a few scripts to read these values from bsnmpd, store them via

Re: Upgrading jails to 7.2-RELEASE with freebsd-update

2009-05-05 Thread Martin Turgeon
Mel Flynn a écrit : On Tuesday 05 May 2009 17:37:42 Martin Turgeon wrote: Hi everyone, It's the first time I'm using freebsd-update to upgrade my system to a new release. I just upgraded the base system from 7.1-RELEASE to 7.2-RELEASE and everything went fine. I now wanted to upgrade my jails t

Re: Apache errors.

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 04 May 2009 15:57:02 Martin Smith wrote: > Armin Pirkovitsch wrote: > > Hi! > > > > Have you tried to recompile the port from which that library came? > > (pkg_info -W /usr/local/lib/libavahi-common.so.3 should help you finding > > the correct port if you do not know which port that is) >

Re: local security scanner for vulnerable common opensource www projects

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Saturday 02 May 2009 14:50:14 Jeroen Hofstee wrote: > I tried to find a program which could scan the local filesystem and > extract a lists of well known > web projects (yoomla, wordpress etc), extract the installed version > number and match it against > a database of known vulnerabilities. Sim

Re: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eddie Chen writes: > I am looking of implementing FTP return code checking after a command > is issued > If the FTP command return "code" not equal from return code to be > check, EXIT 255. > > Command: "? nnn". Where "nnn" is the return code to be check. I'm afraid that I don

Re: Poor ZFS performance

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 04 May 2009 02:07:41 nf wrote: > On Sat, May 2, 2009 at 7:22 PM, Frederique Rijsdijk > > wrote: > > nf wrote: > >> 733843456 bytes transferred in 61.124812 secs (12005656 bytes/sec) > > > > That is very low. I get about 60MB/sec in this way. Adding bs=1m it'll go > > up to 240MB/sec even

Re: Dump snapshot issue...

2009-05-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
"Marc Coyles" writes: > I've got a script that dumps various filesystems to tape for me, but > I've always had an issue whenever I've used the -L option... see below: > > /usr/bin/mt rewind > /sbin/dump 0aLuf /dev/sa0 / > dump: Cannot create //.snap/dump_snapshot: No such file or directory > > /s

Re: Shopping for external harddrive

2009-05-05 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Daniel Underwood wrote: I'm looking to purchase a >= 1TB external harddrive, because I'm running out of room on my 300GB external. Anyone have good experience with any particular brands? I really don't know how different brands compare in reliability to one another. Of course I plan to check C

Re: How can I extract differences between 2 folders ?

2009-05-05 Thread Yavuz Maşlak
First I am sorry writing folders instead of files. as far as I see diff command compares differences line by line between 2 files That's to say, File a orange blue yellow File b yellow blue orange diff --suppress-common-lines -w -y a b orange

Re: kernel errors - watchdog timeout

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 01 May 2009 16:12:50 Seur Bors wrote: > I'm constantly getting the following repeated in my /var/log/messages: > > kernel: re0: watchdog timeout > kernel: re0: link state changed to DOWN > kernel: re0: link state changed to UP > > This was happening right from the get-go on new hardware

Re: PostgreSQL 8.3.7 builds incomplete

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 29 April 2009 23:32:37 Mark wrote: > I should have looked better, instead of just picking the highest-version > > server. Still, makes you wonder, if the postgresql84-server port is so > > incredibly broken, why even include it? It's a "repo copy stub" for the forthcoming release, th

Re: How can I extract differences between 2 folders ?

2009-05-05 Thread Gary Gatten
I could write something in perl, but don't know if anything exists or not. - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue May 05 13:35:22 2009 Subject: Re: How can I extract differences between 2 folders ? First I am sorry writ

xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
Just installed 7.2-RELEASE. After changing my /etc/ttys to default to xdm and rebooting, my machine opens xdm, but I cannot type or press enter. My keyboard isn't totally unresponsive, however, because I can Ctrl+Alt+F# to another virtual terminal. Any ideas? Thanks, Daniel

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Hi, Daniel Underwood wrote: Just installed 7.2-RELEASE. After changing my /etc/ttys to default to xdm and rebooting, my machine opens xdm, but I cannot type or press enter. My keyboard isn't totally unresponsive, however, because I can Ctrl+Alt+F# to another virtual terminal. Try adding:

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
I don't have an xorg.conf file. When I installed 7.1-RELEASE on this laptop (exact same machine) I didn't need to configure an xorg.conf file. But I'll certainly try your advice. Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: How can I extract differences between 2 folders ?

2009-05-05 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 5 May 2009 21:35:22 +0300, Yavuz Maşlak wrote: > First I am sorry writing folders instead of files. Directories. FreeBSD has directories and files. Please try to use the correct terminology. > I wish diff or another command not to display same values which are in > different lines.

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Just installed 7.2-RELEASE. After changing my /etc/ttys to default to > xdm and rebooting, my machine opens xdm, but I cannot type or press > enter. My keyboard isn't totally unresponsive, however, because I can > Ctrl+Alt+F# to another v

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
Yep, that was it! I should have read the Handbook more thoroughly: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html#AEN6615 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > Yep, that was it! I should have read the Handbook more thoroughly: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html#AEN6615 > me too ;-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing l

Re: How can I extract differences between 2 folders ?

2009-05-05 Thread Matthew Seaman
Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 5 May 2009 21:35:22 +0300, Yavuz Maşlak wrote: I wish diff or another command not to display same values which are in different lines. You could first run the files through sort, then diff them. Rather than diff(1), perhaps comm(1) is a better choice. You still

Re: local security scanner for vulnerable common opensource www projects

2009-05-05 Thread Jeroen Hofstee
Mel Flynn schreef: On Saturday 02 May 2009 14:50:14 Jeroen Hofstee wrote: I tried to find a program which could scan the local filesystem and extract a lists of well known web projects (joomla, wordpress etc) Not that I'm aware of and it's hell to write and keep current. k, pitty. Although

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Andrew Gould wrote: > On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > > >> Yep, that was it! I should have read the Handbook more thoroughly: >> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/x-config.html#AEN6615 >> >> > > > me too ;-) > Taking this opportunity, allow me to r

Re: Where am I wasting resources? How to fix this problem?

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 30 April 2009 21:49:13 Chuck Swiger wrote: > Hi, VeeJay-- > > On Apr 30, 2009, at 12:02 PM, VeeJay wrote: > > Guys, I am not very good on freebsd, its you guys who help me to > > keeping my > > server up... I hope you can spare a few minutes to sort this > > problem... > > > > last pid:

watchdog questions

2009-05-05 Thread Brad Waite
I need some help understanding FreeBSD's kernel watchdog functionality. I've been reading up, and here's what I think I understand (correct me if I'm wrong): If a watchdog timer is set in the kernel and not reset or disabled within the time given, the kernel reboots the system. 'watchdog -t ' st

Re: local security scanner for vulnerable common opensource www projects

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 05 May 2009 22:04:27 Jeroen Hofstee wrote: > Mel Flynn schreef: > > On Saturday 02 May 2009 14:50:14 Jeroen Hofstee wrote: > >> I tried to find a program which could scan the local filesystem and > >> extract a lists of well known web projects (joomla, wordpress etc) > > > > Not that I'm

Re: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-05 Thread Eddie Chen
Lowell, I am looking for a FTP clients that exit with a return code. However, last week I download the tnftp and started implementing it. It's actually trivial to implement this feature. If this works, do you think it should be part of the ftp client. Thanks.

What is the highest hard drive read/write speed you were able to achieve by entire disk mirroring or striping?

2009-05-05 Thread Yuri
I am seeing 85MB/s as a speed of a single Hitachi 1TB HD. How high can you go by mirroring or striping 2, 3, 4 harddrives? Any experiences? Thank you, Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebs

Re: Measuring CPU usage via SNMP

2009-05-05 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (May 05), Maxim Khitrov said: > Simple question - does the sum of differences in ssCpuRawIdle, > ssCpuRawUser, ssCpuRawNice, ssCpuRawKernel, and ssCpuRawInterrupt OIDs on > a FreeBSD 7.2 system give me total CPU allocation (i.e. is a constant)? > I've configured a few scripts

Re: What is the highest hard drive read/write speed you were able to achieve by entire disk mirroring or striping?

2009-05-05 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Yuri wrote: > I am seeing 85MB/s as a speed of a single Hitachi 1TB HD. > How high can you go by mirroring or striping 2, 3, 4 harddrives? > > Any experiences? > > Thank you, > Yuri > Highly unscientific measurement here, but I seem to be getting a max of ~160 MB/s by striping two Seagate 500Gb dr

Re: local security scanner for vulnerable common opensource www projects

2009-05-05 Thread Jeroen Hofstee
Mel Flynn schreef: You can do that, the issue is plugins: 0) SuperCMS v 1.0 installed 1) CoolStuff via webinterface, by SuperCMSNr1Fan, version 0.1.0.1beta 2) SuperCMS v 1.0.1 security release, changes some issues with plugin handling 3) CoolStuff's maintainer is now known as CompetitorCMSNr1Fa

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 06 May 2009 00:01:47 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: > Taking this opportunity, allow me to remind to everyone that the > Handbook is always "work in progress" and it is always useful to check > again sections that you have already read, as new info is added > regularly. This latest addition

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
I thought /usr/ports/UPDATING is only created when you appraise your ports with a view toward updating. I.e, after a fresh install of 7.2 (not an upgrade from 7.1), I didn't think the UPDATING file would be very helpful. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: > I thought /usr/ports/UPDATING is only created when you appraise your > ports with a view toward updating. I.e, after a fresh install of 7.2 > (not an upgrade from 7.1), I didn't think the UPDATING file would be > very helpful. > It's good,

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Daniel Underwood
Absolutely! (Sent from my iPhone) On May 5, 2009, at 7:45 PM, Andrew Gould wrote: On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Daniel Underwood wrote: I thought /usr/ports/UPDATING is only created when you appraise your ports with a view toward updating. I.e, after a fresh install of 7.2 (not an upg

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:02 -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: > It's good, general advice. There are UPDATING files in various places for > various updates, I think, including /usr/src/. At least according to the history of problems with X that appeared on this list, /usr/ports/UPDATING hasn't receive

Problem with edquotas

2009-05-05 Thread Agus
Hi guys, Im having an issue while trying to use edquota I've been using it for months with no problemss... but now when i use it the quota aint assigned.. adn i get no error soo.. i sunno where to start looking 6.3-RELEASE-p5 FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE-p5 #0: In /home -rw-r--r-- 1 root op

Re: ReturnCode Checking for FTP

2009-05-05 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Eddie Chen writes: >I am looking for a FTP clients that exit with a return code. > >However, last week I download the tnftp and started implementing it. >It's actually trivial to implement this feature. > >If this works, do you think it should be part of the ftp client. I've neve

Re: xdm freezes - 7.2-RELEASE installed

2009-05-05 Thread Andrew Gould
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 7:21 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2009 18:45:02 -0500, Andrew Gould > wrote: > > It's good, general advice. There are UPDATING files in various places > for > > various updates, I think, including /usr/src/. > > At least according to the history of problems with

Re: watchdog questions

2009-05-05 Thread mike
On Tue, 05 May 2009 15:06:59 -0600, in sentex.lists.freebsd.questions you wrote: > >'watchdog -t ' starts a watchdog for n seconds. Runing watchdog(8) again in >the watchdog. > >watchdogd(8) either runs stat(2) on /etc, or a user-defined cmd (with -e), and >resets the watchdog only on a zero exi

carefull confirm on using linux_base-fc8

2009-05-05 Thread vuthecuong
Hi all I just did a clean install of freebsd 7.2 final release (I not enable linux compatibility during install). In first boot, I enabled linux compatibilitty with linux_base-fc8 as below: Add linux_enable=”YES” to /etc/rc.conf. Add compat.linux.osrelease=2.6

Re: Xdvi with amd64

2009-05-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
HI Andrew, > Exactly which fonts are you having trouble with? I can tell you > whether I can reproduce the issue under 7.1. Nothing exotic at all: cmr10.300.pk The error message is: $ xdvi memo Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. >>> xdvi: Wrong number of bits stored: char.

Re: Xdvi with amd64

2009-05-05 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, > > Exactly which fonts are you having trouble with? I can tell you > > whether I can reproduce the issue under 7.1. > > Nothing exotic at all: cmr10.300.pk > > The error message is: > > $ xdvi memo > Note: overstrike characters may be incorrect. > >>> xdvi: Wrong number of bits s

Re: carefull confirm on using linux_base-fc8

2009-05-05 Thread Adam Vande More
vuthecuong wrote: Hi all I just did a clean install of freebsd 7.2 final release (I not enable linux compatibility during install). In first boot, I enabled linux compatibilitty with linux_base-fc8 as below: Add linux_enable=”YES” to /etc/rc.conf. Add compat.

Re: carefull confirm on using linux_base-fc8

2009-05-05 Thread vuthecuong
vuthecuong wrote: If you intend on using f8, you'll want entries like this in /etc/make.conf USE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 USE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8 OVERRIDE_LINUX_BASE_PORT=f8 OVERRIDE_LINUX_NONBASE_PORTS=f8 That and other useful information can always be found in /usr/ports/UPDATING /quote> Wow,

Re: local security scanner for vulnerable common opensource www projects

2009-05-05 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 06 May 2009 00:01:12 Jeroen Hofstee wrote: > Mel Flynn schreef: > > You can do that, the issue is plugins: > > 0) SuperCMS v 1.0 installed > > 1) CoolStuff via webinterface, by SuperCMSNr1Fan, version 0.1.0.1beta > > 2) SuperCMS v 1.0.1 security release, changes some issues with plugin

HyperThreading

2009-05-05 Thread APseudoUtopia
Hello, I'm running FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE on a dual-core Xeon. It has a custom compiled SMP kernel, ACPI enabled, with the ULE scheduler. I've been looking into HyperThreading, and I've come to the conclusion that I should not use it. I've been told that HTT is disabled by default, however sysctl an

Re: What is the highest hard drive read/write speed you were able to achieve by entire disk mirroring or striping?

2009-05-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am seeing 85MB/s as a speed of a single Hitachi 1TB HD. How high can you go by mirroring or striping 2, 3, 4 harddrives? mirroring - the same, just with 2 processes reading both can get the bandwidth. make sure you use -s high enough (like 1048576) doing gmirror label stripping - the same,