Re: Stupid vinum questions

2003-12-10 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 17:57 10.12.2003 +0100, Peter Ulrich Kruppa wrote: I have got some old and small SCSI harddisks left. 1) Can I use vinum to make them look like one big ufs slice (or is it more like a partition, which can be sliced)? Its like a partition/partitions that you newfs and mount like: mount /de

Re: swap space

2003-12-12 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 09:43 12.12.2003 -0500, M.D. DeWar wrote: I seem to be running out of swap space swapinfo shows 80-95% filled. Mostly from mrtg. is there a way to see whats else is eating it up ? top -o size man top Alexander ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: Where I can find boot's dmesg

2005-01-27 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 17:31 27.01.2005 +0700, Supote Leelasupphakorn wrote: Hi cali, Sorry for my bad English. I mean how can I find the booting message that shown at boot time before login: prompt such as CPU MHz Memory KBytes Take a look at /var/run/dmesg.boot Alexander -- Alexander Haderer

RE: How to deal with package conflicts (apache)?

2004-02-13 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 03:21 14.02.2004 +1030, Wayne Sierke wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: > On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 05:24:32PM +1030, W. Sierke wrote: > > How should I deal with package conflicts such as > > apache13/apache13-mod_ssl... > > > > I've installed apache13-mod_ssl but a couple of other ports I want to > > in

Re: Script doesn't complete via Cron

2003-09-12 Thread Alexander Haderer
ne. Note: I may be wrong, its long time ago. Alexander -- ------ Alexander Haderer Charite Campus Virchow-Klinikum Tel. +49 30 - 450 557 182Strahlenklinik und Poli

Re: What's the meaning of these arp messages...

2003-09-19 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 08:23 19.09.2003 -0700, RA Cohen wrote: Hi, I have a FBSD 4.8 box running Samba in my network. Lately I am noticing some strange messages at the console concerning my firewall. The messages basically say the MAC address of my linux firewall's internal ip address has changed...and 15 minutes lat

Re: Simple Make question.

2003-09-23 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 14:54 23.09.2003 +0200, Michael Vondung wrote: This is one of those questions that label me as a complete neophyte, but, how does one specify a paramter for the Make tool? When trying to "make install" the port of the Qt version of licq (net/licq-qt-gui), a message said that I could compile this

Re: port for batch image manipulation?

2003-10-06 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 22:34 02.10.2003 -0600, Warren Block wrote: On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, JacobRhoden wrote: > Does anyone know of a good port which will simply resize a directory of jpg's > to a specified (proportional) size? I'm pretty sure graphics/ImageMagick will do it; probably the mogrify command. (It's not on

Re: make package with deps?

2003-10-09 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 09:35 09.10.2003 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Is it possible to make also the dependant packages when doing > a "make package" command. make package-recursive (as Kris Kennaway has already posted here several times this week) I think this is because 4.8R (and older

Re: writing pdfs

2003-10-10 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 08:31 10.10.2003 -0400, William O'Higgins wrote: I have grown tired of using MS Word as my standard document output format. I haven't gotten OpenOffice to work under FreeBSD (and it isn't my favourite tool by a long shot) and I am most happy generating text in vi. PDF is eminently portable, an

Re: writing pdfs

2003-10-10 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 07:59 10.10.2003 -0600, Tillman Hodgson wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 03:06:23PM +0200, Alexander Haderer wrote: > My opinion: yes. Learn the basics of LaTeX and use pdflatex instead of > latex to create pdf files directly from your tex source. The "old" way of > generati

Re: UDMA ICRC Error

2003-11-03 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 17:04 03.11.2003 +0100, Tomas Nyman wrote: Hi! I have a serious problem with 3 of my harddrives, the fail to enter DMA mode on boot, I can force them into udma5 using atacontrol but after a few reads I will get the same error and they will fall back into PIO4 mode. The 3 disks are in a Vinum a

vinum: low level access to subdisks / drives

2003-03-05 Thread Alexander Haderer
nflict with parallel read/write access to /mirr ? 3. Should we use "dd if=/dev/vinum/sd/mirr.p0.s0 ..." instead of /dev/ad0s1e ? with best regards Alexander -- Alexander Haderer Charite Berlin - Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubsc

Re: Vinum raid0 disk dies

2003-03-07 Thread Alexander Haderer
sing the wrong parameters. Use backups. with best regards Alexander -- Alexander Haderer Charite Berlin - Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Possible drive failing??

2003-03-14 Thread Alexander Haderer
uot; with "falling back to PIO". In this case try to "downclock" the UDMA mode with "atacontrol mode" (FreeBSD 4.6 ? and above). with best regards Alexander -- Alexander Haderer Charite Berlin - Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Three Terabyte

2003-03-20 Thread Alexander Haderer
newfs may slowdown large filesystems and waste lots of space. Before using large filesystems read the manpage of newfs, especially the topics about options -b -f -i with best regards, Alexander -- Alexander Haderer Charite Berlin - Germany To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EM

Re: Three Terabyte

2003-03-21 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 10:26 21.03.2003 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Thursday, 20 March 2003 at 13:13:18 +0100, Alexander Haderer wrote: > At 12:53 20.03.2003 +0100, Maarten de Vries wrote: >> This would be for backup. Data on about 50 webservers would be backed up >> to it on a nigh

Re: FreeBSD and Promise PDC20276

2003-03-26 Thread Alexander Haderer
ith best regards, Alexander -- ---------- Alexander Haderer Charite Campus Virchow-Klinikum Tel. +49 30 - 450 557 182Strahlenklinik und Poliklinik Fax. +49 30 - 450 557 117Sekr. Prof. Felix Email [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rl(4): autoselect/manual media == no carrier at boot time?

2003-03-25 Thread Alexander Haderer
the safe side you should tcpblast in both directions. Expect about 10 Mbytes/s with no other network load. Btw.: I have no experience with Realtek hardware, so there may be other things here causing the error. with best regards Alexander -- Alexander Haderer Charite Berlin

Re: Using a RAID-card with FreeBSD

2003-07-02 Thread Alexander Haderer
d you tell us which Adaptec hardware you are using at which FreeBSD version. How do you manage the raid on the running system? Is there a console application to do things like configuration, drive-shutdown etc... with best regards, Alexander -- Alexander Haderer Charite Berlin - Ge

Re: Can vi edit binary file in hex format?

2003-07-09 Thread Alexander Haderer
ports/editors/hexpert Path: /usr/ports/editors/lfhex One is missing: A vi-lookalike hex editor from the ports: /usr/ports/editors/bvi Alexander -- ---------- Alexander Haderer Charite

Re: Monitoring tool

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 09:23 14.08.2003 -0400, Ben Dover wrote: I am looking for a monitoring tool that will notify my cell phone when my FreeBSD box is down or off line. It could be as simple as an application that runs on another FreeBSD box or Win box and pings the server and when it doesn't respond to pings it

Re: Script help needed please

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 08:49 14.08.2003 -0500, Jack L. Stone wrote: ... When we started providing the articles 6-7 years ago, folks used browsers to read the articles. Now, the trend has become a more lazy approach and there is an increasing use of those download utilities which can be left unattended to download enti

RE: Using bc in bash script

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 11:45 14.08.2003 -0500, Charles Howse wrote: > > Can I refine it to give me something like: .784 seconds? > > Use "bc -l" instead of bc. That should do it. No, that still gives 0 seconds. I think this whole thing is dependent on the fact that `date +%s` reports integers. I'm still interested i

Re: Using bc in bash script

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 11:35 14.08.2003 -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2003-08-14T16:08:21Z, "Charles Howse" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I refine it to give me something like: .784 seconds? Use "bc -l" instead of bc. That should do it. Yes, but not in the context mentioned before: > > > Start_time=`date +%s`

Re: How to send a PR without send-pr?

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Haderer
t; to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for this -f thing I dont want to read my mail on the FreeBSD machine, it would be just nice if a "mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] < somefile" would work, because now I have to transfer somefile to my Winbox' Email programm somehow. with best regards, Alexander H

How to send a PR without send-pr?

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander Haderer
hello, I have just made a new port which I want to make available for the ports collection. The problem I have: - The web based PR submit form is down. - send-pr does not work for me because I am sitting behind a firewall We have a global mail server for our company that handles all mail traffic

Re: How do I add a local patch to a port?

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 13:04 09.03.2004 -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: Shaun T. Erickson wrote: ... I looked at the porter's handbook, and it says that simply dropping the patch into the files directory should get it automatically applied, but it's not. The patch is named patch-aa and is relative to the WRKSRC dir

Re: How do I add a local patch to a port?

2004-03-09 Thread Alexander Haderer
At 13:41 09.03.2004 -0500, Shaun T. Erickson wrote: ... Well, cd'ing into the work directory and then into the source directory and saying: patch < patchfile correctly patches the file ./dir/file2bepatched So, if patchfile is in the files directory, it ough to just work, yes? But it isn't. Jus