Re: Good Terminal for X?

On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 06:41:11PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 04:12:47PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:26:10AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: > > > > > > Try x11/rxvt-unicode. It doesn't require Gnome nor KDE libraries, and it > > > does > > > han

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:33:58 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Polytropon, > > So if I delete the file /etc/rc.local and make a file ~/.login, make > it executable (chmod +x ~/.login), and add the line > > >[ -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] && startx > in that file and I will have the same result but

Re: forwarding ssh

Thanks for that Steven. Connecting this way is only a deviation from the usually connection we use. I have several users you have X-win32 configured on their laptops on the road. I was hoping to make this change invisible to each existing user and their setup since we will be going back to

FreeBSD on the RouterBoard 450G

Did anyone manage to install, and use/test FreeBSD on the RouterBoard 450G? Or does anyone has a howto for it, how to do it? Thank you in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

zfs question

Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system under FreeBSD-8.1 (now running as a virtual machine under VirtualB

Re: zfs question

On 08/08/2010 12:43:48, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of > years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. > However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild > my server system under FreeBSD-8

Re: virtualbox

On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Chip Camden wrote: When running Xorg under VirtualBox, I had to add the following to xorg.conf to get the keyboard and mouse to respond: Section "ServerFlags" Option "AutoAddDevices" "off" EndSection As with a physical machine, that is only needed to disable hal i

Re: zfs question

On 8 August 2010 13:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On 08/08/2010 12:43:48, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of > > years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. > > However, considering the troubles after Oracle took

Re: zfs question

On Sunday 08 of August 2010 14:43:48 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple > of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. > However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild > my server system u

Re: FreeBSD on the RouterBoard 450G

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mips/2010-June/000890.html appears doable google FreeBSD on the RouterBoard 450G On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Jozsi Vadkan wrote: > Did anyone manage to install, and use/test FreeBSD on the RouterBoard > 450G? Or does anyone has a howto for it, how

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On 8/8/10, Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:33:58 -0500, Antonio Olivares > wrote: >> Polytropon, >> >> So if I delete the file /etc/rc.local and make a file ~/.login, make >> it executable (chmod +x ~/.login), and add the line >> >> >>[ -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] && startx >> in that fi

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:12:51 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > I apologize, but the change to put the code: > > [! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] && startx Oh good, added the missing "!"in the condition. Maybe I should have written the code more clearly in the first place: if [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-l

File System Performance on FreeBSD

Is there any justification for this benchmark? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=zfs_ext4_btrfs&num=2 Regards, GB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On 8/8/10, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:12:51 -0500, Antonio Olivares > wrote: >> I apologize, but the change to put the code: >> >> [! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] && startx > > Oh good, added the missing "!"in the condition. Maybe I should > have written the code more clearly in the fir

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:11:23 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Polytropon, > > I have it almost working. The pam errors are not there anymore, but > the machine stays at the Password: > > prompt. That's strange. The user "praxis" in my working example has a password set, and the user will be as

Re: zfs question

On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. Of course, if your system has particularly demanding IO patterns, then you may have to tweak some loader.conf or s

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

Polytropon, On 8/8/10, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:11:23 -0500, Antonio Olivares > wrote: >> Polytropon, >> >> I have it almost working. The pam errors are not there anymore, but >> the machine stays at the Password: >> >> prompt. > > That's strange. The user "praxis" in my worki

Re: zfs question

On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. One other thing comes to mind. I want a very robus, fast rockl solid *server* It will be a file- email and webser

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:33:30 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > This is it I guess. I chose bash shell and the default schell is the csh. > > There is a file called .login in my home directory > /home/olivares/.login which has: > > $ $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login,v 1.17.2.1.5.1 2010/06/14 >

RE: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.

Its www.openwebmail.org NOT opewebmail - typo :) If you need any help setting things up for your non-profit organization, let me know. > > > Hi.. > > For WebMail that has everything you want: > www.opebwebmail.org > > For pop3 : > qpopper > > For Spam: > SpamAssassin > > Default sen

RE: SoundBlaster Problem with 8.1R (NO ONE ?)

No one ? > > > > > > Hello list, > > A strange sound problem with FreeBSD 8.1R > > sound card is : Creative Sound Blaster, Audigy > > When pciconf output is follow > no...@pci0:5:4:0: class=0x040100 card=0x100a1102 chip=0x00071102 > rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Creati

Re: zfs question

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: > >> Yes. It works very well. >> On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to >> speak) which will work fine for most purposes. >> > One other thing comes to mind. I want a v

Re: virtualbox

Quoth Adam Vande More on Sunday, 08 August 2010: > On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Chip Camden > wrote: > > > Just to follow up, as part of my Bugathon participation I created a VM with > > 8.1-RELEASE as a guest for testing. The i386 version is running like a > > champ. I > > couldn't get the

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

Polytropon, > Yes. According to "man bash", section "INVOCATION", mentiones > other file names: Bash reads and executes ~/.bash_profile, > ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile (in that order), so you can > add the line "[ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] && startx" (short form > is completely okay and valid) at the

Re: Gnus issue in FreeBSD (was: Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?)

ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: > Carl Johnson writes: > > [...] > > >> Now if I could just figure out why gnus doesn't work right under emacs >> I could finish migrating from Linux to FreeBSD. > > I use same .gnus in both GNU/Linux and FreeBSD and keep the mailboxen on the > $HOME of b

Re: zfs question

On 8 August 2010 16:51, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > > > On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > > >> Yes. It works very well. > >> On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to > >> speak) which will work fine for

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

On 8/8/10 10:03:59 AM, Kiswono Prayogo wrote: Is there any justification for this benchmark? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=zfs_ext4_btrfs&num=2 Kind of hard to do much with that "benchmark" First of

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:13:46 -0400 Bill Moran wrote: > To someone technical who might be looking to investigate the results > with an eye toward fixing them, it's useless. Anyone can download the Phoronix Test Suite though, so it should be fairly easy to check if the results are valid at least.

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:14:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > It does not work. When I try to login I see: > > -bash: [ !: command not found > > I switch it to if statement suggested before for .login, but it > returns same error. Very strange; I've checked that in bash's dialog mode, and it

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Bill Moran wrote: > On 8/8/10 10:03:59 AM, Kiswono Prayogo wrote: > >> Is there any justification for this benchmark? >> >> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=zfs_ext4_btrfs&num=2 >>

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

Hi, I heard that Linux filesystems were not reliable because of some bad way of doing caching or something like that. For a study on Linux FS reliability see [1] by Toshiba guys. It seems Linux was upset on this about one year ago [2]. Quoting: "Torvalds, for one, didn't seem too excited ab

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On 8/8/10, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:14:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares > wrote: >> It does not work. When I try to login I see: >> >> -bash: [ !: command not found >> >> I switch it to if statement suggested before for .login, but it >> returns same error. > > Very strange; I've ch

Connection Bandwidth Metering?

I have my own Virtual Private Server (VPS) and was wondering what is the most straightforward to meter my own connection? I would like to email notices to myself of excessive bandwidth usage as well as take steps that limit a DOS attack or Slashdot effect on the webserver. I would also like t

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On 8/8/10, Antonio Olivares wrote: > On 8/8/10, Polytropon wrote: >> On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:14:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares >> wrote: >>> It does not work. When I try to login I see: >>> >>> -bash: [ !: command not found >>> >>> I switch it to if statement suggested before for .login, but it >>>

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:02:48 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Have changed it, now when I start machine I am logged in as root > > grullahighschool# > > I wonder what I did So that's REALLY strange... > /etc/gettytab > > ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty autologin" cons25 on secure Change "aut

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:10:01 -0500, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Update: > > I modified the top line to contain : > ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure > and > at the very end added one with > ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty autologin" cons25 on secure > > and sadlyI get > > Aug 8 1

Re: Connection Bandwidth Metering?

On 08/08/2010 19:04:18, Chris Telting wrote: > I have my own Virtual Private Server (VPS) and was wondering what is the > most straightforward to meter my own connection? It depends on exactly what type of VPS you have. If it's a Xen domU host, or running under VMWare or VirtualBox, then it shoul

Re: Gnus issue in FreeBSD

Carl Johnson writes: [...] > How do you sync the mailboxes together? That sounds like something > that could be useful for my configuration. Actually I am trying to > move my old mail from Linux to FreeBSD, but syncing might be an easier > way to handle moving it. I use following sh script to

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

Carl Johnson writes: > Anonymous writes: >> Carl Johnson writes: >> >>> I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I >>> can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a >>> working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from the >>> system. Gnu

Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd

Paul wrote: > Thanks Oliver > I can just get the i386 vmware version and should install and run. > Last question is there a x86_64 bit Linux module? No, unfortunately x86_64 linux binaries are not supported. > Is one I'm development? I'm afraid I don't know. I suggest you try asking in th

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

On Sunday 08 August 2010 20:55:40 Antonio Vieiro wrote: > I don't mind if a filesystem is very fast: I want it to be reliable > first. I wonder if that Phoronix test suite checks for reliability first > or not. https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Barriers_on_by_default Since it has

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

On 8/8/10, Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:10:01 -0500, Antonio Olivares > wrote: >> Update: >> >> I modified the top line to contain : >> ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty Pc" cons25 on secure >> and >> at the very end added one with >> ttyv0 "/usr/libexec/getty autologin" cons25 on

helping

installed FreeBSD on VirtualPC but I have a problem with configuring Internet dhpc normally gets the ip address and the address of the router but when I introduce portsnap fetch HQ to download files I do not want to download by failed and when I go back to the configuration of the Internet in sysin

Re: mercurial port broken?

On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 13:51:29 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: > Looks the same to me. A message went out on freebsd-ports@ that the port > is broken and will be fixed in a couple of days: There is a preliminary patch with which you can experiment until the port is fixed in the tree: http://lists.fr

Re: helping

Kamil Nowacki wrote: > installed FreeBSD on VirtualPC but I have a problem with configuring > Internet dhpc normally gets the ip address and the address of the router > but when I introduce portsnap fetch HQ to download files I do not want to > download by failed and when I go back to the configur

Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd

Oliver, I was well on my way of installing VMware-Player for i386 linux on FreeBSD until I encountered these error messages. Aug 8 20:44:09 BRSINC-VM02 kernel: linux: pid 12889 (dd): ioctl fd=0, cmd=0x6d02 ('m',2) is not implemented Aug 8 20:44:09 BRSINC-VM02 kernel: linux: pid 12896 (dd): ioct

Re: Typical Network Performance

Seems like someone else got their question answered, but I was able to make use of the tips that were provided. win-win. Thanks for the pointers. By process of elimination (swap cables, swap ports, try different host pairs) I was able to discover that a single server on my home LAN was getti

Re: Gnus issue in FreeBSD

ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: > Carl Johnson writes: > ... > > I use following sh script to synchronize my mailbox stuff which includes > Maildirs, Gnus configuration, procmail configuration, mairix db, etc. > ... Thanks, I'll have to think about that. -- Carl Johnsonca.

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: > Carl Johnson writes: >> Anonymous writes: ... > >>> Try without ~/.newsrc.eld. BTW, what backend do you use for reading mail? >>> nnmaildir? > >> I just tried it, but there was no difference. I use nnml for the >> backend, but that is the same for my

Backing up video DVDs?

I have 100+ physical DVDs that I would copy to disk (for fast easy access and backup purposes). Is there any software in ports that will make a good copy of the dvd? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 322, Issue 16, Message: 14 On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:44:36 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:33:30 -0500, Antonio Olivares > wrote: > > This is it I guess. I chose bash shell and the default schell is the csh. > > > > There is a file called .logi

Re: Typical Network Performance

"Jason C. Wells" wrote: > By process of elimination (swap cables, swap ports, try different > host pairs) I was able to discover that a single server on my home > LAN was getting about 1.6% performance compared to other servers > getting 94% ... > What would be the next step to figuring out why th