Many open branches = excess FreeBSD project work?

2012-06-13 Thread grarpamp
We talk about release dates and always slippage and effect on downstream in other thread. But maybe some causes and even just related efficiency thing is: FreeBSD officially maintaining right now [1]: - G HEAD - G RELENG_9 - S RELENG_9_0 - G RELENG_8 - S RELENG_8_3 - S RELENG_8_2 - S RELENG_8_1 -

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, June 13, 2012 a las 07:16:44AM +0100, Matthew Seaman escribió: > On 13/06/2012 02:03, William Orr wrote: > > I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing > > /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been > > backing it up, I know, I was a

Re: P5-FuzzyOcr port

2012-06-13 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 13/06/2012 07:17, Brian W. wrote: > Pkg_add -r can't find a package for this; I presume this is deliberate > because of the unmaintained status of fuzzyocr? Not directly. As many pkgs as possible are built from ports, irrespective of who the maintainers are. An unmaintained port is however le

Re: Making a bootable backup (hard)disk... how?

2012-06-13 Thread Mike Clarke
On Sunday 10 June 2012 23:14:57 Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: > Well, nevermind about that.  I get the general idea, i.e. that dumping > at level N causes dumping of everything that has changed since the last > dump at level N-1. A point to be aware of is that if you restore from a full backup follo

Re: how to allow by MAC

2012-06-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 15:18:18 -0700, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > > "Bill" == Bill Yuan writes: > Bill> I want to create a white list MAC address, Only the machine which > it's MAC > Bill> in the white list will be allowed, all others will be blocked. > > Bad idea. Since (a) every MAC

Re: IPMI SoL oddity on 9.0

2012-06-13 Thread Ihsan Junaidi Ibrahim
I've managed to get SoL to work. Turned out the IPMI is utilizing uart2 on my box so modified loader.conf so uart2 is configured to be the serial console port. hint.uart.0.flags="0x0" hint.uart.2.at="isa" hint.uart.2.port="0x3E8" hint.uart.2.irq="10" hint.uart.2.flags="0x10" The handbook does n

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread Robert Huff
Matthew Seaman writes: > > I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing > > /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been > > backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when this > > happened). Is there a way I can restore it, or at l

hwpstate0 set frequency err 6

2012-06-13 Thread Lynn Steven Killingsworth
Hi FreeBSD - This is the fourth time I have installed FreeBSD while learning the in's and out's. I have a new mainboard this time (ASUS M5A97 EVO + AMD FX 8120.) I have set up dual booting because of a few legacy apps. When the boot of OS gets to the login prompt I begin to get the error m

Re: P5-FuzzyOcr port

2012-06-13 Thread Brian W.
I was migrating from v7 to v8 when I saw this a few nights ago. The upgrade was going speedily well till I hit that. Like I said I was able to get through it by building the port. On Jun 13, 2012 12:25 AM, "Matthew Seaman" wrote: > On 13/06/2012 07:17, Brian W. wrote: > > Pkg_add -r can't find a

Re: Many open branches = excess FreeBSD project work?

2012-06-13 Thread Mark Felder
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:08:12 -0500, wrote: - S RELENG_8_2 - S RELENG_8_1 - G RELENG_7 - S RELENG_7_4 These are all going away soon. Don't worry. :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

freebsd-update problem

2012-06-13 Thread Sean Page
Hi, Hopefully a simple problem with a simple solution. Trying to update a server using freebsd-update, but when I try I get the following: # freebsd-update fetch install Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.3-RELEASE from update5.FreeBSD.org.

FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Simon
Hi, I upgrade to FreeBSD 8.3-p3 and installed MySQL 5.0.95 from ports. It runs fine until it dies silently. Does anyone run a heavy loaded MySQL under such setup? how can I troubleshoot this? I could never compile a stable MySQL server from the ports and always relied on MySQL community server b

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Simon
Possible but extremely unlikely, I always had issues whenever I tried to build MySQL server myself. The hardware where this is running has been very stable. I don't have any issues whatsoever making world, etc... There is no segfault which is what usually happens when you have memory issues. And

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 13, 2012, at 11:43 AM, Simon wrote: > Possible but extremely unlikely, I always had issues whenever I tried to build > MySQL server myself. That by itself is interesting. > The hardware where this is running has been very > stable. I don't have any issues whatsoever making world, etc... A

Re: Many open branches = excess FreeBSD project work?

2012-06-13 Thread doug
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Mark Felder wrote: On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 02:08:12 -0500, wrote: - S RELENG_8_2 - S RELENG_8_1 - G RELENG_7 - S RELENG_7_4 These are all going away soon. Don't worry. :-) I hope that does not mean we will not be able to [re]build older versions. No one [me anyway] would

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Simon
>> I wish I could get some input from someone running MySQL server with 300+ >> queries a second and what MySQL version/build they are running. >By all means-- while I'm quite familiar with busy databases, folks aren't >running >MySQL for that kind of TPS load. Why not? it is designed precisely

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread doug
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Simon wrote: I wish I could get some input from someone running MySQL server with 300+ queries a second and what MySQL version/build they are running. By all means-- while I'm quite familiar with busy databases, folks aren't running MySQL for that kind of TPS load. Wh

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 13, 2012, at 11:34 AM, Simon wrote: > I upgrade to FreeBSD 8.3-p3 and installed MySQL 5.0.95 from ports. > > It runs fine until it dies silently. Does anyone run a heavy loaded MySQL > under such setup? how can I troubleshoot this? > > I could never compile a stable MySQL server from the p

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Maybe I'm contacting wrong mailling list, I can't seem to get ahold of > ISP/hosting guys > on this list. Truly amazing that for a server OS, there is so little input > for something like > MySQL server. Perhaps everyone else is still using text files, does 10TPS, or > runs > linux, don't know

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 13, 2012, at 12:24 PM, Simon wrote: >>> I wish I could get some input from someone running MySQL server with 300+ >>> queries a second and what MySQL version/build they are running. > >> By all means-- while I'm quite familiar with busy databases, folks aren't >> running >> MySQL for that

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Simon
>Yes you too are using the wrong list. >The questions@ list was created to catch FreeBSD newbies, >somewhere to point /etc/motd at. > ( It's evolved to also deal with _some_ more complex issues > 'cos some on questions@ failed to move on, & post more > complex non beginner issues

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Mark Felder
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Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
> Those only using questions@ _Please_ realise there are other lists. > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo > Read the remits of the other lists & subscribe &/or post those lists > that match your topic. PS All credit & thanks to a few highly skilled & informed people on questions@ wh

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi Simon > Thanks Julian. The reason for freebsd-questions is because when I looked > thru isp, database, and performance, and few others, they had one or two > threads a month with barely much input. Yup, isp@ is quiet, some other lists too, doesn't necessarily mean there'snot good people listen

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread jb
William Orr worrbase.com> writes: > > Hello, > > I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing > /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been > backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when this > happened). Is there a way I can resto

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2012/06/13 14:43:29 -0400 Simon => To Chuck Swiger : S> There is no segfault which is what usually happens when you have memory then there is the daemon's log... -- Peter Vereshagin (http://vereshagin.org) pgp: A0E26627 ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread Eitan Adler
On 13 June 2012 12:17, jb wrote: > William Orr worrbase.com> writes: > >> >> Hello, >> >> I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing >> /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been >> backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when thi

`ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-13 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. I have the directory in the file system with 2 regular files each of which is sized as 700M according to 'ls -l'. But the torrent client and 'du -s' and 'ls -l's 'total' show that the directory size is 300M. How can that be? Are there different file sizes stored on a ufs1 in th

Re: Chromium 19 core dumps on launch...

2012-06-13 Thread Keith Seyffarth
George Liaskos writes: > On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: >> >> Friday I installed Chromium again because it would be nice to have a >> browser to test in other than Firefox and Opera. It was installed using >> portinstall -R chromium, which *appeared* to function properly

Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jun 13, 2012, at 1:23 PM, Peter Vereshagin wrote: > I have the directory in the file system with 2 regular files each of which > is > sized as 700M according to 'ls -l'. But the torrent client and 'du -s' and > 'ls > -l's 'total' show that the directory size is 300M. > > How can th

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread Waitman Gobble
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > On 13 June 2012 12:17, jb wrote: > > William Orr worrbase.com> writes: > > > >> > >> Hello, > >> > >> I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing > >> /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been >

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread Robison, Dave
On 06/13/2012 16:10, Waitman Gobble wrote: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 2:26 PM, Eitan Adler wrote: > >> On 13 June 2012 12:17, jb wrote: >>> William Orr worrbase.com> writes: >>> Hello, I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing /var/db/pkg/ and everything u

Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-13 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 13 June 2012 16:23, Peter Vereshagin wrote: > Hello. > > I have the directory in the file system with 2 regular files each  of  which   > is > sized as 700M according to 'ls -l'.  But the torrent client and 'du -s' and   > 'ls > -l's 'total' show that the directory size is 300M. > > How can tha

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: > The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about > leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions > of cron are much pickier about the crontab file. The cron logs show > that it is starting his

Re: FreeBSD 8.3 + MySQL 5.0.95

2012-06-13 Thread Michael Powell
Simon wrote: Hint: Please learn to not top post. It makes it more difficult to arrange answers coherently. > Possible but extremely unlikely, I always had issues whenever I tried to > build MySQL server myself. The hardware where this is running has been > very stable. I don't have any issues wh

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread RW
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:17:20 + (UTC) jb wrote: > William Orr worrbase.com> writes: > > > > > Hello, > > > > I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing > > /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've > > been backing it up, I know, I was actually doi

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread Eitan Adler
On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr wrote: > Hello, > > I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing > /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been > backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when this > happened). Is there a way I can re

Re: Lost /var/db/pkg

2012-06-13 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012, Eitan Adler wrote: On 12 June 2012 18:03, William Orr wrote: Hello, I had a hard disk failure some time ago, and I ended up losing /var/db/pkg/ and everything under it (before you say I should've been backing it up, I know, I was actually doing an initial full when this h

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Chris
On 6/13/2012 6:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: > >> The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about >> leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier versions >> of cron are much pickier about the crontab file

Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-13 Thread David Tilbrook
What you have are sparse files. The size listed by ls -l is the length of the files as if all the file from start to end contain data, but unix allows one to seek beyond the end of a file and add more data, thus leaving unused blocks. A common example of sparse files is the *.pag file in a dbm da

`ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-13 Thread grarpamp
> The following creates a file with a size of 102402 (a gig) > fseek(stdout, 100*1024, SEEK_END); Nope :) What you have there is not actually called (anything). A proper gibibyte = GiB = 2^30 = 1024^3 = 1073741824 for data storage, ram (binary bit handling) A proper gigabyte = GB = 1E9 =

Re: Newbie question: Why aren't my cron jobs running?

2012-06-13 Thread Walter Hurry
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:16:18 -0500, Chris wrote: > On 6/13/2012 6:23 PM, Walter Hurry wrote: >> On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:21:31 -0500, Dan Lists wrote: >> >>> The syntax of his crontab file is correct. Vixie cron does care about >>> leading spaces, tabs, extra spaces, or leading zeros. Earlier >>>

USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-13 Thread Gary Aitken
I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device when it's first plugged in. But why do I see continued activity (i.e. the light blinks on a usb disk or memory stick)? When I umount one of these, they keep being beat up on and it makes me nervous... At what point is it sync'd and saf

slowoffice doesn't work

2012-06-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
trying to start openoffice shows: [wojtek@wojtek ~]$ openoffice-3.4.0-swriter XDM authorization key matches an existing client!/usr/local/openoffice-3.4.0/openoffice.org3/program/soffice.bin X11 error: Can't open display: Set DISPLAY environment variable, use -display option or check per

Re: USB device activity when not mounted

2012-06-13 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:26:16 -0600, Gary Aitken wrote: > I can understand why I would see activity on a USB device > when it's first plugged in. But why do I see continued > activity (i.e. the light blinks on a usb disk or memory stick)? > When I umount one of these, they keep being beat up on an

Re: `ls -l` shows size of file other than of the folder?

2012-06-13 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 13 Jun 2012 22:33:50 -0400, grarpamp wrote: > > The following creates a file with a size of 102402 (a gig) > > fseek(stdout, 100*1024, SEEK_END); > > Nope :) What you have there is not actually called (anything). It would maybe be called a MKiB. :-) > A proper gibibyte = GiB =