Re: box reboot after hdd write error

On 8/17/2010 11:37 PM, claudiu vasadi wrote: Hello fellas, My system is a 8.0-RELEASE with 6 hdd's. 2 days ago I had some power failures and 2 disks were affected. These 2 hdd;s are connected to "atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd007,0xd100-0xd103,0xd200-0xd207,0xd300-0xd303,0xd400-0xd40f mem 0xfa4a000

how to run task periodically

Hi, I have a system that doesn't run 24/7/365. I would like to make sure that some tasks (like updating the ports tree) run weekly/monthly etc. As the system isn't on 24/7 the cron job I usually run for these tasks doesn't work as the machine isn't always running on the scheduled time. So I need

Fwd: box reboot after hdd write error

How often is it rebooting? Only after the write failure. If I do read from the disks, everything is fine > If it's just data disks you could unplug them to see if the machine still > reboots. That would let you know for sure if they really are the problem or > if it's something else. I could

Re: how to run task periodically

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Mark Stapper wrote: > So I need a utility that enable me to say: "if a week has passed since > the last run, run this command". > Is there such a utlility? > /usr/ports/sysutils/anacron -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd

Re: Where is firefox-devel?

On 18.08.2010 04:21, jhell wrote: > On 08/17/2010 14:04, Unga wrote: >> Hi all > >> Could I know what is the complete web path for >> branches/experimental/www/firefox-devel/? > >> This is mentioned in following mail: >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2010-August/001054.html >

Re: how to run task periodically

crontab -e ? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron Cheers, Antonio 2010/8/18 Mark Stapper : >  Hi, > > I have a system that doesn't run 24/7/365. > I would like to make sure that some tasks (like updating the ports tree) > run weekly/monthly etc. > As the system isn't on 24/7 the cron job I usua

Re: how to run task periodically

On 08/18/2010 10:58, Mark Stapper wrote: Hi, I have a system that doesn't run 24/7/365. I would like to make sure that some tasks (like updating the ports tree) run weekly/monthly etc. As the system isn't on 24/7 the cron job I usually run for these tasks doesn't work as the machine isn't alwa

Hibernation

I can't find any good docs or guides to this. I checked the handbook, but had a bunch of references to 5.x. Can anyone point me to the right direction? I'd like to go with FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 for my next system. Hibernation and Wake on Lan would both be useful. __

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

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Re: how to run task periodically

On 18-8-2010 9:22, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Mark Stapper > wrote: > > So I need a utility that enable me to say: "if a week has passed since > the last run, run this command". > Is there such a utlility? > > > /usr/ports/sysut

Re: Where is firefox-devel?

--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Beat Gaetzi wrote: > From: Beat Gaetzi > Subject: Re: Where is firefox-devel? > To: "FreeBSD Questions" > Cc: "jhell" , "Unga" > Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 3:35 PM > On 18.08.2010 04:21, jhell wrote: > > On 08/17/2010 14:04, Unga wrote: > >> Hi all > > > >> Could I

Re: Hibernation

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:55:12 -0500 Depo Catcher wrote: > I can't find any good docs or guides to this. I checked the > handbook, but had a bunch of references to 5.x. > Can anyone point me to the right direction? > > I'd like to go with FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 for my next system. > Hibernation and Wa

clamav issues

Hi, I'm having some problems with a clamav install and wondered if anyone had any suggestions. As of a few days ago i noticed mail was getting rejected with 451 retry codes. Checking the milters this appeared to be clamav, and removing this milter fixed the problem. Afterwards, on tryig

Re: clamav issues

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:25:21 +0100 Paul Macdonald articulated: > I'm having some problems with a clamav install and wondered if anyone > had any suggestions. > > As of a few days ago i noticed mail was getting rejected with 451 > retry codes. > > Checking the milters this appeared to be clama

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

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Extracting a variable listing

Sorry to return to the trough again for script help, but find excellent answers here when all else fails, and I am not very good at it. Trying to develop a script (non-bash) that will extract a variable list of content on a daily basis so I can add it to a master list. Once I have this, I can do t

Re: Extracting a variable listing

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Jack L. Stone wrote: The content I need will always fall beneath a row of pound signs, and there is content above that row I don't want, like this: bunch of rows I don't need here ### <--- the top of stuff needed row1 If you want the '#' line

fix bad directory on FAT32 usb disk

I have a fat32 usb disk that gives this error when mounting with mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1"bad fat32 file system" Is there some way to clean or auto fix this fat32 file system so it will mount? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://

Re: fix bad directory on FAT32 usb disk

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/18/10 9:55 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: > I have a fat32 usb disk that gives this error when mounting with > mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1"bad fat32 file system" > > Is there some way to clean or auto fix this fat32 file system so it will > mount? Hi, You c

Re: Extracting a variable listing

At 10:53 AM 8.18.2010 -0300, A. Wright wrote: >On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Jack L. Stone wrote: > >> The content I need will always fall beneath a row of pound signs, and there >> is content above that row I don't want, like this: >> >> bunch of rows I don't need here >> ### <-

Re: Extracting a variable listing

El día Wednesday, August 18, 2010 a las 09:22:37AM -0500, Jack L. Stone escribió: > At 10:53 AM 8.18.2010 -0300, A. Wright wrote: > >On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Jack L. Stone wrote: > > > >> The content I need will always fall beneath a row of pound signs, and there > >> is content above that row I don'

Re: Extracting a variable listing

Jack L. Stone schrieb: Sorry to return to the trough again for script help, but find excellent answers here when all else fails, and I am not very good at it. Trying to develop a script (non-bash) that will extract a variable list of content on a daily basis so I can add it to a master list. Onc

BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

hello, I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of total/used/free memory and swap. I know there are a number of utilities in ports that will let me do this, I am however looking for something in the base system (if

Re: Extracting a variable listing

Dr. A. Haakh schrieb: Jack L. Stone schrieb: Sorry to return to the trough again for script help, but find excellent answers here when all else fails, and I am not very good at it. Trying to develop a script (non-bash) that will extract a variable list of content on a daily basis so I can add

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

On 18/08/2010 16:18, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: hello, I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of total/used/free memory and swap. I know there are a number of utilities in ports that will let me do this, I am ho

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

Hi Oliver, The problem behind the subject is a little bit frustrating, so I do not know were to start. Yeah it's a pretty big problem, but I can say others are looking at it and taking small steps in the right direction. First, and this hasn't changed since the last 15 years, FreeBSD lack in

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > hello, > > I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as > free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of total/used/free > memory and swap. > > I know there are a number of utilities in ports that will l

Re: Extracting a variable listing

> Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:14:50 +0200 > From: "Dr. A. Haakh" > Subject: Re: Extracting a variable listing > > Jack L. Stone schrieb: > > > > The content I need will always fall beneath a row of pound signs, and there > > is content above that row I don't want, like this: > > > > bunch of rows I

Can't control laptop's lid... how to debug?

Hi all, I am unable to control my laptop's lid. Whenever I close the lid the system enters a weird state and I have to reboot. I've already added #Lid switch notify 0 { match "system" "ACPI"; match "subsystem" "Lid"; match "notify" "0x00"; action "xset dpms force off"; }; notify 0 { match "s

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

Hi Christopher, "C. Bergström" escribió: PathScale and CAPS recently announced HMPP as a new manycore GPGPU open standard and there's a chance you'll see it ported to FBSD. In addition to this you could see other open standards working well on FBSD, but that depends on market demand and

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:18:58 -0400 Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > hello, > > I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as > free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of > total/used/free memory and swap. > > I know there are a number of utilities in ports that w

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris maness wrote: > Would not the info displayed in the command "top" suffice? Yes, "top -n 1" does (sort of) display the info I need. The swap portion gives me the same info as Linux free, the memory portion is more cryptic, I guess due to differences in how F

Re: Can't control laptop's lid... how to debug?

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:24:27PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote: > Hi all, > > I am unable to control my laptop's lid. Whenever I close the lid the > system enters a weird state and I have to reboot. Are you sure you need to? My laptop automatically switches of the screen when the lid is closed.

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:41 PM, RW wrote: > Is there any particular reason you want to know? Free memory isn't a > very meaningful concept in FreeBSD. I have a webserver that had it's Apache killed this morning. The box itself had been stable for several years, as well as the Apache instance. Th

FreeBSD Additional Contributors List

Dear Sir I am writing this e-mail to ask whether or not it is possible to change my entry in the FreeBSD additional contributors list so that it does not contain my nickname and e-mail but my real name instead? If so, who should I contact in order to accomplish that? Thank you very much in ad

Re: FreeBSD Additional Contributors List

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 exp...@deviate.fi wrote: > Dear Sir > > I am writing this e-mail to ask whether or not it is possible to change > my entry in the FreeBSD additional contributors list so that it does not > contain my nickname and e-mail but my real name instead? If so

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

--On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 14:14:25 -0400 Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:41 PM, RW wrote: Is there any particular reason you want to know? Free memory isn't a very meaningful concept in FreeBSD. I have a webserver that had it's Apache killed this morning. The box

Re: clamav issues

Jerry wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:25:21 +0100 Paul Macdonald articulated: I'm having some problems with a clamav install and wondered if anyone had any suggestions. As of a few days ago i noticed mail was getting rejected with 451 retry codes. Checking the milters this appeared to be

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

emor...@xroff.net wrote: Hi Christopher, "C. Bergström" escribió: PathScale and CAPS recently announced HMPP as a new manycore GPGPU open standard and there's a chance you'll see it ported to FBSD. In addition to this you could see other open standards working well on FBSD, but that depend

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

On August 18, 2010 02:06:08 pm Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris maness wrote: > > Would not the info displayed in the command "top" suffice? > > Yes, "top -n 1" does (sort of) display the info I need. > > The swap portion gives me the same info as Linux free, th

Re: clamav issues

Paul Macdonald wrote: Jerry wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:25:21 +0100 Paul Macdonald articulated: I'm having some problems with a clamav install and wondered if anyone had any suggestions. As of a few days ago i noticed mail was getting rejected with 451 retry codes. Checking the milter

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:08:35PM -0400, Mike Jeays thus spake: On August 18, 2010 02:06:08 pm Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris maness wrote: > Would not the info displayed in the command "top" suffice? Yes, "top -n 1" does (sort of) display the info I need. T

Re: Hibernation

On 8/18/2010 5:26 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:55:12 -0500 Depo Catcher wrote: I can't find any good docs or guides to this. I checked the handbook, but had a bunch of references to 5.x. Can anyone point me to the right direction? I'd like to go with FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 fo

Re: fix bad directory on FAT32 usb disk

Glen Barber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/18/10 9:55 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: I have a fat32 usb disk that gives this error when mounting with mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1"bad fat32 file system" Is there some way to clean or auto fix this fat32 file system so it will mount?

well, i guess it's time to ask.....

ok guys, i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit. i figured i would wait until fall to ask, but it's close enough. can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip. i have trouble on my 2003 dell that has a 2.4gh

Re: Grepping a list of words

If I remember correctly, grep (and all its associated versions) accept "-v" as an option which reports the entries in the list that don't match. Using gref (which is given the name[s] of files) uses those files as a list of the patterns to match.

Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

Gary Kline wrote: ok guys, i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit. i figured i would wait until fall to ask, but it's close enough. can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip. (Disclaimer I work for a

Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

Gary Kline wrote: ok guys, i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit. i figured i would wait until fall to ask, but it's close enough. can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip. i have trouble on my 2003 de

Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > > ok guys, > i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful > computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit.  i figured i would wait > until fall to ask, but it's close enough. > > can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6gh

[off-topic] Server-side IRC channel logging? (not statistics)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I recently set up an IRC server (irc/ircd-hybrid), which I don't see obvious settings for finely tuned channel logging. What I would like to do is log individual channels without depending on a connected client. In all my searching I found softw

Re: enabling the "fn-f7" switch monitor functionality

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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

On 8/18/2010 8:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote: 've hesitated. on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly flawlessly. So if i buy one of the notebooks with a Stream what kind of movies? Some video players (like VLC) have hardware acceleration that will help a lot if your video card/driver supports it. Thi

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

On 8/18/2010 1:06 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris maness wrote: Would not the info displayed in the command "top" suffice? Yes, "top -n 1" does (sort of) display the info I need. The swap portion gives me the same info as Linux free, the memory portion i

Re: enabling the "fn-f7" switch monitor functionality

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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

On Wed 18 Aug 2010 at 20:16:51 PDT Depo Catcher wrote: On 8/18/2010 8:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote: 've hesitated. on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly flawlessly. So if i buy one of the notebooks with a Stream what kind of movies? Some video players (like VLC) have hardware acceleration that wi

Xorg Problems

I'm having trouble with xorg on a new 8.1 installation. I haven't installed a wm yet, but when I try to call up the generic x windows by typing "startx" they do indeed appear, but all three of the x windows are locked up. By that I mean that there is no mouse, and no possibility of entering

Re: Not booting after freebsd install

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Installation problem

Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard drive was wiped clean. I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard drive by using my Linux Ubuntu Disk Utility, I changed it to {0-a5} which I heard was for Free

sendmail, queue intervals and ETRN

I've had the following setup at home for a number of years: mailhub <> smarthost <---> intarwebs Everything works as intended, of course, but I'd like to change the setup to accomodate the mailhub host being powered off at night. After it's restarted in the morning (or whenever), the mail

Re: Installation problem

On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:01:08 -0400, Derek Schwartz wrote: > Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell > Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard > drive was wiped clean. > I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard drive by using my Linux >

Re: Xorg Problems

Ondrej Majerech wrote: On 19-Aug-10 13:20, Rem Roberti wrote: I'm having trouble with xorg on a new 8.1 installation. I haven't installed a wm yet, but when I try to call up the generic x windows by typing "startx" they do indeed appear, but all three of the x windows are locked up. By that I m

Re: Xorg Problems

On 19-Aug-10 13:20, Rem Roberti wrote: I'm having trouble with xorg on a new 8.1 installation. I haven't installed a wm yet, but when I try to call up the generic x windows by typing "startx" they do indeed appear, but all three of the x windows are locked up. By that I mean that there is no mou

Re: sendmail, queue intervals and ETRN

In the last episode (Aug 18), David Allen said: > I've had the following setup at home for a number of years: > >mailhub <> smarthost <---> intarwebs > > Everything works as intended, of course, but I'd like to change the setup > to accomodate the mailhub host being powered off at night.

Why network doesn't get initialized on system startup?

I have two similar machines, on one rc.conf has: wlans_ath0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0="ssid wifi-net-id weptxkey 1 deftxkey 1 wepmode on wepkey 0x1234567890 DHCP" and it gets initialized at startup. On another rc.conf has: wlans_ndis0=wlan0 ifconfig_wlan0="ssid wifi-net-id weptxkey 1 deftxkey 1 wepm

Re: Hibernation

In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 324, Issue 6, Message: 29 On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:07:13 -0500 Depo Catcher wrote: > On 8/18/2010 5:26 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: > > On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:55:12 -0500 > > Depo Catcher wrote: > > > > > >> I can't find any good docs or guides to this. I checke

Re: Xorg Problems

My guess: the windows are not locked, they just don't receive any input, because X does not see your mouse and keyboard. Make sure that hal and dbus are started before you start X! toma ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebs

Re: fixed: can't find .so, but it's right there.

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freebsd.org maillist mx discard policy

Hello list, My question is regarding official maillist smtp servers. I'm trying to subscribe on "security-notifications", but (for some reasons) our outgoing MX has no PTR record and mx1.freebsd.org rejects my message: >Reporting-MTA: dns; xxx >Arrival-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 17:18:39 +0400 (