Hard disk on its way west ?

2010-07-14 Thread Graeme Dargie
Something caught my eye on a dmesg output the other day, and it got me wondering if this was going to cause me a problem in the near future. ad4: 476940MB at ata2-master SATA300 ad8: 476938MB at ata4-master SATA300 I had a check of another machine I have with the same make and model of h

Re: Clarification: "Jail" -vs- "Chroot"

2010-07-14 Thread Valentin Bud
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Aiza wrote: > Ed Flecko wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> I'm reading about "jails" and "chroot", and I'm not clear about the >> differences so I'm hoping someone can clarify this for me. >> >> Here's what I "think" is correct: >> >> 1.) FreeBSD has both "chroot" capabilit

Why googleearth keeps crashing when photo window is closed?

2010-07-14 Thread Yuri
For some reason googleearth crashes when the popup with photo is closed. Crashes are intermittent, depending on system updates and port updates. After some crashes disappear and after other updates crashes come back again. Crash stack is below. Yuri Major Version 5 Minor Version 2 Build Nu

Re: Clarification: "Jail" -vs- "Chroot"

2010-07-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 14/07/2010 00:30, Aiza wrote: > Ed Flecko wrote: >> Hi folks, >> I'm reading about "jails" and "chroot", and I'm not clear about the >> differences so I'm hoping someone can clarify this for me. >> >> Here's what I "think" is correct: >> >> 1.) FreeBSD has both "chroot" capability as well as "ja

Sec.Update -p4 and /boot/GENERIC

2010-07-14 Thread n dhert
A sec.update (8.0-p4) was released yeterday. I have a system which - feb 2010 : first install (with 8.0-RELEASE (using generic kernel)) - 19 feb 2010 : updated to 8.0-RELEASE-p2 - 25 feb 2010 : I made a Custom kernel (enabling disk quota) then a /boot/kernel.old was created (the original generic

buffer starvation when recording DVDs

2010-07-14 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, my dvdr drive supports recording DVDs (both DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs) at a maximum speed of 16x. however at speeds of more than ~12x the burner's buffer get's filled only ~20%. probably that's why the burner's speed get's reduced by `growisofs` (to prevent buffer starvation?). how can this happ

FreeBSD 8.0 and KDE Fonts

2010-07-14 Thread What you get is Not what you see
On 8.0 with KDE 4.3.1 package installed I have problems with Firefox fonts. Though I installed URW and freetype fonts according to handbook and declared them on xorg.conf, Firefox 3.5.4 cant display some pages properly,ie text is not displayed. So that must be a problem with fonts, because those pa

Re: Dell SAS5/IR

2010-07-14 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I was attempiting to restage a server last night to no avail. It is a Dell 860 with a LSI SAS (Dell SAS5/SI) controller. This was happening when I was dumping the filesystems from a USB memory stick (da1s1) to the hard drive (Seagate 76 GIG SAS - da0s1). Can anyone tell me if they hav

Re: buffer starvation when recording DVDs

2010-07-14 Thread Alexander Best
2010/7/14 Alexander Best : > hi there, > > my dvdr drive supports recording DVDs (both DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs) at a > maximum speed of 16x. however at speeds of more than ~12x the burner's > buffer get's filled only ~20%. probably that's why the burner's speed > get's reduced by `growisofs` (to prevent

Re: buffer starvation when recording DVDs

2010-07-14 Thread Paul B Mahol
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > 2010/7/14 Alexander Best : >> hi there, >> >> my dvdr drive supports recording DVDs (both DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs) at a >> maximum speed of 16x. however at speeds of more than ~12x the burner's >> buffer get's filled only ~20%. probably that's wh

Tv-card for freebsd

2010-07-14 Thread Bernt Hansson
Hello list! I'm in the process of buying a tv-card for dvb-t transmissions. Any tips on cards that have a driver for freebsd? Thank you. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsu

Re: buffer starvation when recording DVDs

2010-07-14 Thread Alexander Best
2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol : > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Alexander Best > wrote: >> 2010/7/14 Alexander Best : >>> hi there, >>> >>> my dvdr drive supports recording DVDs (both DVD-Rs and DVD+Rs) at a >>> maximum speed of 16x. however at speeds of more than ~12x the burner's >>> buffer get's f

Re: How can i know if the freebsd kernel need to be updated ?

2010-07-14 Thread Bernt Hansson
zaxis said the following on 2010-07-13 10:12: Now i use the following commands to maintain my freebsd box. portsnap fetch update pkg_version -vIL= portupgrade -R xxx It works great for software installed through ports. However, how can i know if the kernel needs to be updated ? You can't, u

Re: How can i know if the freebsd kernel need to be updated ?

2010-07-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:40:28 +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote: > zaxis said the following on 2010-07-13 10:12: > > Now i use the following commands to maintain my freebsd box. > > > >> portsnap fetch update > >> pkg_version -vIL= > >> portupgrade -R xxx > > > > It works great for software installed th

Re: How can i know if the freebsd kernel need to be updated ?

2010-07-14 Thread Lowell Gilbert
zaxis writes: > Now i use the following commands to maintain my freebsd box. > >>portsnap fetch update >>pkg_version -vIL= >>portupgrade -R xxx > > It works great for software installed through ports. However, how can i know > if the kernel needs to be updated ? That procedure *only* updates you

Re: How can i know if the freebsd kernel need to be updated ?

2010-07-14 Thread Diego Arias
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Lowell Gilbert < freebsd-questions-lo...@be-well.ilk.org> wrote: > zaxis writes: > > > Now i use the following commands to maintain my freebsd box. > > > >>portsnap fetch update > >>pkg_version -vIL= > >>portupgrade -R xxx > > > > It works great for software insta

Re: login.conf: passwordtime not enforced?

2010-07-14 Thread Fernan Aguero
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:19 PM, b. f. wrote: > > >after reading some docs about hardening freebsd installations, I > > decided to enforce password expiration after 90days. I've added the > > corresponding line to /etc/login.conf and ... after quite some time > > (way more than 3 months already!)

libSM Configure Script Failure

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Maness
What would cause a configure script to fail? See output bellow. Chris Maness (909) 223-9179 http://www.chrismaness.com===> License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE ===> Extracting for libSM-1.1.1_1,1 => MD5 Checksum OK for xorg/lib/libSM-1.1.1.tar.bz2. => SHA256 Checksum OK for xor

Re: login.conf: passwordtime not enforced?

2010-07-14 Thread b. f.
On 7/14/10, Fernan Aguero wrote: > On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:19 PM, b. f. wrote: > I'm sorry about that. My apologies. I just assumed that you assumed > that I was doing the right thing(TM). :) That would be a very bad assumption to make, when attempting to track down a problem. ... >> and c

Re: Dell SAS5/IR

2010-07-14 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 7:29 AM, Grant Peel wrote: > > I have seen some scuttlebutt white googling, about the SAS5/IR buuffer > problems, but have not seen a resolution yet. > I looked some more and it looks like that issue can also be caused by a faulty drive, maybe even a bad cable. Have you

Re: libSM Configure Script Failure

2010-07-14 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Maness wrote: > What would cause a configure script to fail? See output bellow. > > Chris Maness > (909) 223-9179 > http://www.chrismaness.com Hi Chris, Please post a link to the configure and config.log files from your work directory somewhe

FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread paul
Hy I'm pretty new to this mailing list, and FreeBSD, in the last 2 weeks i was trying to use FreeBSD as alternative to Windows, but i can't make the flash videos work on most of the popular flash video sites. I've tried to pkg_add, compile from source, swfdec-plugin, gnash on FreeBSD 7.3 and 8.1

Re: libSM Configure Script Failure

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Maness
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Maness wrote: >> What would cause a configure script to fail?  See output bellow. >> >> Chris Maness >> (909) 223-9179 >> http://www.chrismaness.com > > Hi Chris, > > Please post a link

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:26:02 +0200 (CEST), paul wrote: > Hy > I'm pretty new to this mailing list, and FreeBSD, in the last > 2 weeks i was trying to use FreeBSD as alternative to Windows, > but i can't make the flash videos work on most of the popular > flash video sites. Oh... "Flash" video, th

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Brian Callahan
Depends on how you want to do it. You can use www/youtube_dl to get the movies, then watch on your player of choice. Or if you really want to watch in a browser can go to youtube.com/html5 and sign up for the HTML5 beta. Then on a (very) modern browser, any videos with HTML5 will work. Unfortunatel

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Odhiambo Washington
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 8:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: > On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:26:02 +0200 (CEST), paul wrote: > > Hy > > I'm pretty new to this mailing list, and FreeBSD, in the last > > 2 weeks i was trying to use FreeBSD as alternative to Windows, > > but i can't make the flash videos work on mo

FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Robert Huff
paul writes: > So finally i came here with the question: Is it possible > to watch youtube on a FreeBSD system ? Yes. I have it running on FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Fri Apr 23 11:34:17 EDT 2010 amd64 > And if it is, someone would be so kind to guide me to a FAQ / > Article

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread b. f.
>I'm pretty new to this mailing list, and FreeBSD, in the last 2 weeks i was >trying to use >FreeBSD as alternative to Windows, but i can't make the flash videos work on >most of the >popular flash video sites. I've tried to pkg_add, compile from source, >swfdec-plugin, >gnash on FreeBSD 7.3 and

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010 20:06:14 +0300, Odhiambo Washington wrote: > Is this the same way the Linux users have it?:-) I don't think so. The Linux "Flash" plugin seems to work better on Linux than it does on FreeBSD. Linux, as well as OpenSolaris, is a platform with better support, so I think the reg

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, paul wrote: Is it possible to watch youtube on a FreeBSD system ? And if it is, someone would be so kind to guide me to a FAQ / Article / wiki / or tell me how to do it ? Yes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers.html#MOZ-FLASH-PLUGI

Re: libSM Configure Script Failure

2010-07-14 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Maness wrote: > What would cause a configure script to fail? See output bellow. > > Chris Maness > (909) 223-9179 > http://www.chrismaness.com > Hi Chris, Since we've been conversing privately for a bit, I went back to your original message

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, paul wrote: Is it possible to watch youtube on a FreeBSD system ? And if it is, someone would be so kind to guide me to a FAQ / Article / wiki / or tell me how to do it ? Yes: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/desktop-browsers

Re: libSM Configure Script Failure

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Maness
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Maness wrote: >> What would cause a configure script to fail?  See output bellow. >> >> Chris Maness >> (909) 223-9179 >> http://www.chrismaness.com >> > > Hi Chris, > > Since we've bee

Re: libSM Configure Script Failure

2010-07-14 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Larkin wrote: > Chris Maness wrote: >> What would cause a configure script to fail? See output bellow. > >> Chris Maness >> (909) 223-9179 >> http://www.chrismaness.com > > > Hi Chris, > > Since we've been conversing privately for a bit, I we

Re: libSM Configure Script Failure

2010-07-14 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Maness wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Chris Maness wrote: >>> What would cause a configure script to fail? See output bellow. >>> >>> Chris Maness >>> (909

Re: libSM Configure Script Failure

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Maness
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Maness wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> Chris Maness wrote: What would cause a configur

Help with "ezjail-admin create" command

2010-07-14 Thread Ed Flecko
Hi folks, I've found a website ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppserverJailsHOWTO ) with a tutorial that steps me through most if what I'm trying to set-up; I'm trying to use ezjail to set up the latest version of Apache with my website. I've carefully followed the steps, and the only step that I've fou

Re: login.conf: passwordtime not enforced?

2010-07-14 Thread Fernan Aguero
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:25 PM, b. f. wrote: > On 7/14/10, Fernan Aguero wrote: >> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 10:19 PM, b. f. wrote: > >> I'm sorry about that. My apologies. I just assumed that you assumed >> that I was doing the right thing(TM). :) > > That would be a very bad assumption to make,

Re: Help with "ezjail-admin create" command

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
On 14 jul 2010, at 21:49, Ed Flecko wrote: > Hi folks, > I've found a website ( http://wiki.freebsd.org/AppserverJailsHOWTO ) > with a tutorial that steps me through most if what I'm trying to > set-up; I'm trying to use ezjail to set up the latest version of > Apache with my website. I've carefu

Re: libSM Configure Script Failure

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Maness
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Maness wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Chris Maness wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: S

Quantum DLT SATA tape drive

2010-07-14 Thread alpha-lemming
Hello, I'm looking to replace a busted tape ATA DAT drive with a Quantum DLT SATA drive. Is this supported? Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Help with "ezjail-admin create" command

2010-07-14 Thread Ed Flecko
Peter, I don't quite understand what you mean "I think you're better off creating a fresh jail, and install apache via the ports collection. for the templates to work you need to specify all dependencies by hand." Are you suggesting NOT using ezjail? Or do you mean just install Apache into a jail

Re: Help with "ezjail-admin create" command

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
On 14 jul 2010, at 22:18, Ed Flecko wrote: > Peter, > I don't quite understand what you mean "I think you're better off > creating a fresh jail, and install apache via the ports collection. > for the templates to work you need to specify all dependencies by > hand." > > Are you suggesting NOT

Sata Tape Drives

2010-07-14 Thread Michael Anderson
Hello, I'm looking to replace a busted tape drive with a Quantum DLT SATA drive. Is this supported? Thanks! -- Michael Anderson IT Services & Support elego Software Solutions GmbH Gustav-Meyer-Allee 25 Building 12.3 (BIG) room 227 13355 Berlin, Germany phone +49 30 23 45 86 96 michael

Re: libSM Configure Script Failure

2010-07-14 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Maness wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Maness wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: > Chris Maness wrote: > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE

Re: libSM Configure Script Failure

2010-07-14 Thread Chris Maness
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Chris Maness wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:42 PM, Chris Maness wrote: >>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Greg Larkin wrote: >> Chris Maness wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12

Re: buffer starvation when recording DVDs

2010-07-14 Thread Alexander Best
2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol : > On 7/14/10, Alexander Best wrote: >> 2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol : >>> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Alexander Best >>> wrote: 2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol : > On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Alexander Best > wrote: >> 2010/7/14 Alexander Best : >>> hi t

Re: Tv-card for freebsd

2010-07-14 Thread Tim Judd
On 7/14/10, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Hello list! > > I'm in the process of buying a tv-card for dvb-t transmissions. > > Any tips on cards that have a driver for freebsd? > > Thank you. For a built-in tuner card itself, no recommendations. For an alternative solution, look at silicondust.com for

Re: Help with "ezjail-admin create" command

2010-07-14 Thread Ed Flecko
Thank you. :-) What services are you referring to on the host that need to be reconfigured??? Ed ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questi

Re: buffer starvation when recording DVDs

2010-07-14 Thread Alexander Best
2010/7/14 Alexander Best : > 2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol : >> On 7/14/10, Alexander Best wrote: >>> 2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol : On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 1:25 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > 2010/7/14 Paul B Mahol : >> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Alexander Best >> wrote: >>> 20

Re: Help with "ezjail-admin create" command

2010-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
On 14 jul 2010, at 23:57, Ed Flecko wrote: > Thank you. > > :-) > > What services are you referring to on the host that need to be reconfigured??? > ezjail tells you what services are running, which might conflict with the jail. But that highly depends on the services running on the host, an

Re: Help with "ezjail-admin create" command

2010-07-14 Thread Ed Flecko
Thank you Peter! Well in MY case, I'm not planning on running anything on this server (at least at the moment) other than Apache, so I shouldn't have any difficulties (I hope). Also, what's the "ezjail-admin update -P -i" command? I've tried "googling" it, but I don't see much. Is it similar to

Re: Dell SAS5/IR

2010-07-14 Thread Grant Peel
I have seen some scuttlebutt white googling, about the SAS5/IR buuffer problems, but have not seen a resolution yet. I looked some more and it looks like that issue can also be caused by a faulty drive, maybe even a bad cable. Have you looked into that? -- Adam Vande More __

ipnat.conf - map and rdr won't work!

2010-07-14 Thread alexus
I can't put my mind around it, before reboot I was able to ssh in from outside to my jail and right now I can't! I even rebuild the whole system and even that didn't help:( anyone have any ideas? su-3.2# cat /etc/ipnat.rules map fxp0 lama -> 0/32 rdr fxp0 64.52.58.58 port ssh -> lama port ssh tcp

Re: os that rather uses the gpu?

2010-07-14 Thread Moises Castellanos
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:56 PM, b. f. wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Jul 2010 22:46:15 +0200 > > Jozsi Avadkan wrote: > > > > > Does someone know a distribution/operating system, that rather uses > > > the GPU for "working", not the CPU? [by default] > > Not exclusively, no. But there are developments,

Re: FreeBSD vs YouTube

2010-07-14 Thread Neil Short
Another alternative is to install the firefox plugin called DownloadHelper. It works very well with youtube and several other sites. start here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ and click the link for "Popular." It's near the top of the list. ___