Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2010 04:33:02, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > I'm working on a project for my client, and I spent the better part of > two days trying to get my laptop running OSX to have the right > combination of BerkeleyDB and Perl modules to build what I

How many states can pf sanely handle

2010-06-12 Thread krad
Hi, I have a dns server that receives a fair amount of traffic. I was implementing a pf based firewall on it and ran into a few issues. Basically there is a ridiculously high number of states generated. I just wondered what are the upper limits of what pf can handle, and what the memory requiremen

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-12 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
i have a problem while i am trying to restore the dump files.. i followed your instructions but when i give "restore -rf /backup/root.dump" i receive the following error: expected next file 188417,got 4 and the output of ls in the /mnt directory is: .snap restoresymtable terietor what is goi

Re: resize freebsd slice

2010-06-12 Thread Rolf Nielsen
2010-06-12 15:50, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas skrev: i have a problem while i am trying to restore the dump files.. i followed your instructions but when i give "restore -rf /backup/root.dump" i receive the following error: expected next file 188417,got 4 and the output of ls in the /mnt directory

Re: resize freebsd slice

2010-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 04:32:17 +0300, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: > i have a problem while i am trying to restore the dump files.. > > i followed your instructions but when i give > > "restore -rf /backup/root.dump" i receive the following error: > > expected next file 188417,got 4 This *may* b

RE:resize freebsd slice

2010-06-12 Thread Giorgos Tsiapaliokas
YES i have read what everyone said and yes i gave the L command when i dumped the / but i didn't mounted / as read-only when i made the dump file. Did you make a full or incremental dump? i don't know what u mean but i gave the command:"dump -0Lauf /mnt/hd/FBSD/root.dump /". the output of the co

Re: resize freebsd slice

2010-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:28:49 +0300, Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: > YES i have read what everyone said and yes i gave the L command when i > dumped the / but i didn't mounted / as read-only when i made the dump file. That is okay - as long as -L (dump live file system) is given. But I also do shar

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 08:06:52AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Absolutely. Especially when you compare it to MacPorts and consider the > disparity in numbers of users between MacOS and FreeBSD. Given that the > ports is maintained by a bunch of volunteers basically in their spare > time, th

php help, please....

2010-06-12 Thread Gary Kline
a few days ago i got my webserver working.. late last night i found the following error on my http://www.thought.org page: Warning: date() [function.date]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_s

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2010 16:38:13, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 08:06:52AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >> >> Absolutely. Especially when you compare it to MacPorts and consider the >> disparity in numbers of users between MacOS and FreeBSD. Giv

Re: php help, please....

2010-06-12 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/06/2010 18:26:42, Gary Kline wrote: > can anybody 'splain what suddenly went wrong with my two-year-old > php script? Simple. You upgraded to php-5.3.x. This is a well known gotcha -- php-5.3.x needs to have the timezone set explicitly in /us

Re: php help, please....

2010-06-12 Thread Gary Kline
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 06:49:20PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/06/2010 18:26:42, Gary Kline wrote: > > can anybody 'splain what suddenly went wrong with my two-year-old > > php script? > > Simple. You upgraded to php-5.3.x. This is a

Directory Passwords

2010-06-12 Thread Mike Robins
Hi there, I currently am running a FreeBSD/Samba server for my company with public shares for all of the employees to keep their work related documents in. I'm wondering if it is possible for me to keep these shares public and add a password to each sub directory in the public share? This would m

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Tim Judd
On 6/12/10, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/06/2010 16:38:13, Chad Perrin wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 08:06:52AM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: >>> >>> Absolutely. Especially when you compare it to MacPorts and consider the >>> disparity in nu

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Chip Camden
On Jun 12 2010 13:53, Tim Judd wrote: > > These market statistics are pointless. The numbers are based on > people reporting their OS and usage. A system like Microsoft or Apple > can use a unique host id when checking for system updates which can > tabulate this data. Linux is possible to do s

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sat 12 Jun 2010 at 13:12:55 PDT Chip Camden wrote: Call me fatalistic, but I think there is a direct relationship between FreeBSD's high quality and it's lack of popularity. If it catered to the common herd, its compromises would be many. I think we're straying from the original topic, bu

detached a mounted ufs filesystem

2010-06-12 Thread Xihong Yin
I accidentally detached my usb external hard drive without umount it. The hard driver filesysystem is ufs. Now I can't mount it because I can't see the slices. What I get is only da0 and da0a in the /dev directory. Is there a way to fix the filesystem? Thanks, Xihong ___

Re: detached a mounted ufs filesystem

2010-06-12 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 12 Jun 2010 19:46:26 -0400, "Xihong Yin" wrote: > I accidentally detached my usb external hard drive without > umount it. The hard driver filesysystem is ufs. Now I can't > mount it because I can't see the slices. What I get is only > da0 and da0a in the /dev directory. Is there a way to f

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 06:43:19PM +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 12/06/2010 16:38:13, Chad Perrin wrote: > > > > I don't mean to belittle anyone's accomplishments, of course, but I don't > > find it astonishing at all. FreeBSD's development model is one that > > encourages people to develop w

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 01:12:55PM -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > > Call me fatalistic, but I think there is a direct relationship between > FreeBSD's high quality and it's lack of popularity. If it catered to the > common herd, its compromises would be many. I believe there is such a relationship,

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 03:51:32PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: > > I worked at Microsoft Developer Support in a previous life, beginning at > the time that Visual C++ and MFC were first introduced. One of > Microsoft's big selling points was what they called "wizards" -- > basically, a set of si

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Charlie Kester, Am 2010-06-12 15:51:32, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: > I worked at Microsoft Developer Support in a previous life, beginning at > the time that Visual C++ and MFC were first introduced. Hahaha, you where Killed by a Microsoft Customer... And when you knoked at the door o

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sat 12 Jun 2010 at 18:17:22 PDT Michelle Konzack wrote: Hello Charlie Kester, Am 2010-06-12 15:51:32, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: I worked at Microsoft Developer Support in a previous life, beginning at the time that Visual C++ and MFC were first introduced. Hahaha, you where Killed by

Re: detached a mounted ufs filesystem

2010-06-12 Thread Xihong Yin
'fdisk /dev/da0' output is *** Working on device /dev/da0 *** parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=14593 heads=255 sectors/track=63 (16065 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylind

Re: freebsd - for the win

2010-06-12 Thread Brandon Gooch
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Charlie Kester wrote: > On Sat 12 Jun 2010 at 18:17:22 PDT Michelle Konzack wrote: >> >> Hello Charlie Kester, >> >> Am 2010-06-12 15:51:32, hacktest Du folgendes herunter: >>> >>> I worked at Microsoft Developer Support in a previous life, beginning at >>> the tim

Re: Directory Passwords

2010-06-12 Thread Bob Hall
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 02:52:59PM -0400, Mike Robins wrote: > Hi there, I currently am running a FreeBSD/Samba server for my company > with public shares for all of the employees to keep their work related > documents in. I'm wondering if it is possible for me to keep these shares > public and ad

evince problem

2010-06-12 Thread Istvan Galgand
Dear All, Gnome desktop. Right click e.g. on BSD_06_2010.pdf icon, selecting open with document viewer. A few seconds later the process dies. Regarding the issue by means of Google I have found two pieces of information. First: check the content of /etc/rc.conf: dbus_enable="YES", it is included