restoresymtable

2003-07-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Inspecting the /usr directory I came across a >10MB file called "restoresymtable" Anybody got some idea where this came from? Can I safely delete it? How could it be created in the first place? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.8 ++ Debian GNU/Linux

Re: mouse speed

2003-07-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 10 Jul Eric Yang wrote: > > I am pretty new to Freebsd and I am having a problem with the mouse. > > It moves slowly across the screen, it seems I can the acceleration > > factor, but I really dislike acceleration, is there anyway Still, having a "xset m 4 2" line in my .xinitrc gives me a much

Re: /usr/ports/www/graphics/png install error

2003-07-11 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 11 Jul Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > I often upgrade all of my ports to the latest revision with just > portupgrade -ra Is that enough? Shouldn't this be "portupgrade -rRa" ? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.8 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Woody) ___

can i overburn w/ burncd?

2003-07-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
I checked the manual and google but can't find anything on overburning a CDR with burncd (fbsd-4.8). I don't like it when *almost* at the end of my CDR the .iso just not fits. It sometimes is just a little, but still.. ;-(( Now I have to switch to windows to overburn my cdr's. I shouldn't have to

vmware3 and spontanious reboots

2004-10-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
I run vmware3 on a FreeBSD-4.10p3 system. I have a Duron-800 processor, so it's a rather slow machine. I have experienced about five sudden reboots, which are unexplained to me. They all happened while my virtual win98se had heavy disk activity. Sometimes transfering files, sometimes while I wanted

tar vs rar

2004-10-19 Thread dick hoogendijk
I like rar for freebsd for the possibility to make predefined archive sizes. If I tar a directory and want to burn it (later) to a cdr is it possible with (free/OSS) tar to predefine such chunks? Or is there some other utility to do this for me? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key:

OOo-1.1.3

2004-10-23 Thread dick hoogendijk
I downloaded the OOo-1.1.3_nl package yesterday and wanted to install it like I did the previous version. I was very surprised to see that it did *not* wanted to install with a pkg_add onto my freebsd-4.10p3 system. It was made dependend on de X.Org libraries and such is not what you'de expect for

ps and command args

2004-10-24 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
I used to be able to see the command arguments given with the program to start with when I did a "ps -aux" I miss an option which makes the program arguments visible but I can't find out which one it is.. With the new startup files for pure-ftpd in which the command_args contain the arguments I wn

Re: OOo-1.1.3

2004-10-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 24 Oct 2004 13:43:40 -0400 epilogue <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) pkg_add -f openoffice-[ver] > > 3) pkgdb -Fu# almost all the xorg/xfree pieces have very similar > names, so selecting the correct dependency is straightforward. only > with XFree86-fontScalable might you have to ma

pure-ftpd options

2004-10-24 Thread dick hoogendijk
Does anybody know if and if so, how I can see the options that were given pure-ftpd in starting up? All I see in any ps command is "pure-ftpd (SERVER)" or something similar. I use the new startup script: =-=-= #!/bin/sh # PROVIDE: pureftpd # REQUIRE: NETWORKING SERVERS # BEFORE: DAEMON # KEYWOR

xmms sounddriver

2004-10-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
Default install of xmms gives me a choice of *output* drivers between libesdout.so (eSound) and libOSS.so (OSS driver 1.2.10) Is there a diffence between the two? I mean, what is the default driver anyway? I don't use Gnome, but fvwm2, so that means no eSound ? When xmms starts up the output sound

Re: X11 security issues???

2004-11-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 03 Nov Rob wrote: > Eric Schuele wrote: > >However, F1 takes you to the ttyv I'm logged in to and this gives you > >the opportunity to Ctrl-C my X session... leaving you standing in my > >shell! > > How do you start your X session? > It seems like you log in via one of the text terminals (ttyv0

xorg/xfree86

2004-11-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
I run FreeBSD-4.10 and will remain to do so for some time. Now I read on the fbsd site the following text: /quote/ As mentioned in a prior section, Xorg is the default implementation of the X Window System. The Ports Collection (as well as packages) rely on this change to satisfy dependencies. To

freetype 2 error question

2004-11-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
I get a lot of the following errors. They all are related to Xft. I.e. "portupgrade -rR XFree86-4-clients" stops with the following errors: #ifndef FT_FREETYPE_H #error "`ft2build.h' hasn't been included yet!" #error "Please always use macros to include FreeType header files." #error "Example:" #e

Re: can i overburn w/ burncd?

2003-07-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 12 Jul 2003 15:41:08 -0500 David Loszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2003-07-12 at 10:11, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > I checked the manual and google but can't find anything on overburning a > > CDR with burncd (fbsd-4.8). > I believe you can if you

Re: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 15 Jul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I tried it multiple times. I was able to kill all the other KDE > related processes (even the parent), but this one just doesn't die. Then kill (-9) the login session itself (the one kde came from in the first place) And if that too does not help: a home serve

Complete FreeBSD the same as the online handbook?

2003-07-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have a question: The complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey seems to be very good documentation on FreeBSD and it's mentioned often in this NG. Am I right to assume that this is the printed equivalent of the online handbook? If not, how can I obtain a printed copy of the handbook other than printing

Complete FreeBSD the same as the online handbook?

2003-07-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
This message is sent again as I had forgotten to trim te settings in my newly installed sylpheed (I'm sorry about the former one) = I have a question: The complete FreeBSD by Greg Lehey seems to be very good documentation on FreeBSD and it's mentioned often in this NG. Am I right

TeX, teTeX, laTeX which one?

2003-07-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
I want to get to learn the world of TeX. I know I have to read some books about it, but I'm a little confused about which port(s) I need to install. TUG (TeX User Group) speaks of teTeX, but in the ports is also a TeX I guess I have to install teTeX. Am I right? What extra programs are relevant

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 17, Issue 14

2003-07-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Thu, 17 Jul 2003 00:51:32 -0800 "Thanjee Neefam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I personally love using LyX, in association with teTeX. LyX is > basically a gui frontend for teTeX, and a very good one at that! It > has improved a lot over the past couple of years since I started using > it. I in

fonts.dir fonts.scale files in Type1 directories

2003-07-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
How do I generate the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files for my Type1 fonts? I now the drill for Truetype, but am helpless w/ my type1 fonts. Sure there must be tools to generate these files. -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.8 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (Wood

Re: fonts.dir fonts.scale files in Type1 directories

2003-07-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 17 Jul dick hoogendijk wrote: > How do I generate the fonts.dir and fonts.scale files for my Type1 > fonts? > I now the drill for Truetype, but am helpless w/ my type1 fonts. > Sure there must be tools to generate these files. Problem solved. I found the answer on _some_ html p

latex and latex2e

2003-07-18 Thread dick hoogendijk
As mentioned before I installed the teTeX port and indeed got latex too. At least there was a symlink called that way ;-)) Reading about latex I noticed that there should be a modern variant in use called latex2. It also existst in ports. Has anybody a clue if (and why) the teTeX port uses another

lyx/ispell NL error

2003-07-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have ispell installed on my fbsd-48 system with american (default) and dutch (nederlands.hash) language support. The default is english/american, so if I want to lookup a dutch word I have to do "ispell -d nederlands ; " This may not be the wisest installation on a dutch system (???) Whenever I

Re: lyx/ispell NL error

2003-07-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 21 Jul K Anderson wrote: > Did a google and found a page in Italion and had google translate it > to english. The page says to use the enviroment variable DICTIONARY > (Then after reading the ma page for ispell twice, well three times I > noticed it says the same thing). So give the environment

Re: lyx/ispell NL error (solved)

2003-07-22 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 21 Jul dick hoogendijk wrote: > Whenever I use LyX with dutch settings and babel and want to call the > spellchecker (ispell) I get an error like "can't find a file for > language NL" or something like that. It seems that at least LyX knows > it needs to work w/ d

opera6.12 and flash

2003-07-26 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Has somebody flash working with opera-6.12 (fbsd version)? I know flash works with a wrapper for mozilla (at least it does for me) but I can't get it working w/ opera (native freebsd version). If it's not possible I'll stop using opera. I won't install the linux version for it, but use mozilla 10

Re: tv-out under FreeBSD R4.8

2003-07-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 29 Jul Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Tuesday 29 July 2003 14:03, Franz Stieber wrote: > I have a GeForce TI 4200 and TV out works great :) > > I found the program nvtv for the nvidia cards, but it is not > > possible to compile it under FreeBSD. Does it run with the > > linux-emulation under Fr

Re: Question about portsdb -uU

2003-08-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 02 Aug Hasse wrote: > I have a question about portsdb -uU > After a ports cvsup, does it replace the command make index in > /usr/ports ? Or do you recommend to use both ? portsdb -uU *DOES* replace the "make index" from /usr/ports. However: while is _is_ quicker, it has some disadvantages! I

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 06 Aug Lucas Holt wrote: > You guys need to rethink this thing. Reverse DNS checks are ok, but > ip blocking for legitimate servers is silly. I quote this again! It is _so_ true! Armoring our mailboxes/servers by blocking others just because they make use of dsl or broadband cable is just st

Re: ISPs blocking SMTP connections from dynamic IP address space

2003-08-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 08 Aug Mykroft Holmes IV wrote: > Just because you have a highspeed connection with a stable or static > IP doesn't mean it's not dynamic. Dynamic simply means assigned by > DHCP or RADIUS (For dialup and some DSL). If you're in this space you > should be relaying through your ISP's mailserver.

Re: FreeBSD loader and Linux

2003-08-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 11 Aug John McDonnell wrote: > Damn, I knew I was forgetting something. *lol* I blame it on the baby > crying making me forget to cite the message. That plus my client > displays the message in a window above the composing window which > always makes me forget that the message I'm replying to is

imap and sendmail

2003-09-06 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Which IMAP server is most suitable in conjunction with the sendmail MTA? I read that courier-imap needs maildirs (which sendmail does not create afaik). I don't want to change my mta. Anybody? -- dick -- http://www.nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 4.8 ++ Debian GNU/Linux (

wifi ath

2006-04-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
Bought a WiFi D-Link with atheros chipset. I use a non-default kernel, so I guess I have to put some options back in and recompile. Will upgrade to 6.1-rc at the same time ;-) Any pitfalls? What options exactly do I need to have my ath based wifi card up and running? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/

Re: wifi ath

2006-04-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 16 Apr Patrick Bowen wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > >Bought a WiFi D-Link with atheros chipset. > >Any pitfalls? > >What options exactly do I need to have my ath based wifi card up and > >running? > > > Test the card with "kldload if_ath"

wrired-wireless if_bridge question

2006-04-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
The situation: A server with two wired Ethernet cards rl0 to the outside (ISP) rl1 to the local network (192.168.11.1) The server does routing NAT and DHCP; pf is enabled (quite a normal situation ;-) The NEW situation (802.11-to-ethernet bridge) I will add a wireless card to the server. This way

Re: wrired-wireless if_bridge question

2006-04-18 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 18 Apr Fabian Keil wrote: > dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > After adding the WiFi card this whould be: > > defaultrouter="82.74.2.1" > > hostname="lothlorien.nagual.st" > > ifconfig_rl0="inet 82.74.2.186 netmask

stuck beacon ?

2006-04-21 Thread dick hoogendijk
Hi all, I've a D-Link DWL-G520 with atheros chipset plugged in my server today. The card is neatly reckognised (kldload if_ath0) But when I do a "ifconfig ath0 sssid my_net media autoselect mode 11g mediaopt hostap channel 1 up" I get this error on screen: ath0: stuck beacon: resetting (bmiss cou

ath0: stuck beacon: resetting (bmiss count 4)

2006-04-22 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have a D-Link DWL-G520 which I bring up with if_ath_load="yes" in loader.conf When I do an ifconfig ath0 media OFDM/54Mbps mediaopt hostap mode 11g ssid sky01 up all 'seems' well. Ifconfig ath0 shows no errors, but on my first tty I get these errors: ath0: stuck beacon: resetting (bmiss count 4

Re: ath0: stuck beacon: resetting (bmiss count 4) *SOLVED*

2006-04-23 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 22 Apr 2006 20:34:00 +0200 dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ath0: stuck beacon: resetting (bmiss count 4) > > Is this a bug in the ath driver in FreeBSD-6.0 ? (If yes, is this bug > delt with in fbsd-6.1? Nobody answered. Luckely I had a FreeBSD-6.1 (prer

ssid broadcast

2006-04-29 Thread dick hoogendijk
Is it possible to have a wifi card in hostap mode NOT to broadcast its ssid (like most routers can)? I have one in one of my hosts and this is not secure (as I understand). Mimimal security would be not to broadcast and have wep on. -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Runni

device ath compile in kernel

2006-04-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
I wanted to compile my wifi ath based card in the new kernel, but got some errors that I can't solve myself. After adding "device ath" I got compilation errors (ath_hal errors), so I put in "device ath_hal" (although there is no mention of it in the dox). The hal errors dissappeared, but now I got

Re: playing a dvd

2006-04-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 15:09:48 +0100 eoghan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > Im trying to open a dvd and play it. I am trying a number of programs > but I cannot seem to get it to open my dvd. For playing DVD's try ogle. It's very fast, no stuttering audio, etc. OGLE is just fot DVD playing thou

Re: device ath compile in kernel

2006-04-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 09:42:05 -0500 Eric Schuele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > How do I add my ath card ? Loading it from /boot/loader.conf goes > > well, but I want it in the kernel. > > > > I've got the following: > # wLAN s

gigabit ethernet pci

2006-04-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
The IntelPRO/1000 is a very good gigabit ethernet card, am I correct? I read that it gives lots of diffs and most cards are not that good. I'm looking for a card that is good, supports jumbo frames and is not /that/ expensive ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running

backup system rsync <-> dump

2006-05-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have two disks; one is the fbsd system drive, the other is for backup purposes. I'm in doubt about what to use: dump or rsync I guess I can do something like: mount /dev/ad1s3a /backup/root mount /dev/ad1s3d /backup/var mount /dev/ad1s3f /backup/usr /usr/local/bin/rsync -avHxS --delete /usr /ba

linux-firefox and multimedia

2006-05-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have mplayerplug-in show most of my multimedia in the *native* firefox. However, linux-firefox runs very smooth too and runs flash7. I know how I can isntall java on this non-native version, BUT, how do I go about when I want the multimedia functions back that I had in the freebsd version of fir

i/o error OOo-2.0.2 NFS

2006-05-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
Yesterday I installed OpenOffice-2.0.2 from (the most recent) ports. It runs very well, but I have an error that I don't understand. Opening a file on my local machine is OK, but when I try to open one on a NFS mounted directory I get an I/O general error and the file is not opened. I run OOo-1.1.

Re: quota deadlock on 6.1-RC1

2006-05-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 05 May Pawel Jakub Dawidek wrote: > It isn't good to release a software with known, documented bugs, but > its better than shipping an untested software with god-one-knows > unknown bugs. Very well said. Hear hear. EOD? ;-) -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running Fr

Re: i/o error OOo-2.0.2 NFS

2006-05-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 5 May 2006 12:51:47 +0200 Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Yesterday I installed OpenOffice-2.0.2 from (the most recent) > > ports. It runs very well, but I have an error that I don't > >

gamin - fam

2006-05-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
Does anybody have a solution for the gamin / fam problem. Afaics only the courier package needs FAM still. So, I have two questions: (a) does courier run well without fam support? (b) does courier run with gamin support? As it gets more and more packages that depend on gamin and not on fam it see

Re: i/o error OOo-2.0.2 NFS

2006-05-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 05 May Bill Moran wrote: > dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 5 May 2006 12:51:47 +0200 > > Fabian Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Opening a file o

fam_gamin

2006-05-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
Will the contraverse between fam and gamin be delt with in the near future? Like it's been done for avahi <-> mDNSResponder or avaha <-> howl ? I know there are workarounds, but why do two packages install files in the same place to begin with? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F862

OO02 localised port

2006-05-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
When I run a portinstall -P editors/openoffice.org-2.0 I get a running OOo2 package. Hyphenation and spellchecker work OK in Dutch! I know there are localised versions of OOo2 on OOOpackages.good-day.net but it seems that their package is not as good as the one that gets fetched by portupgrade. H

Re: i/o error OOo-2.0.2 NFS

2006-05-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 5 May 2006 15:24:18 -0400 Bill Moran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Think so. This is the exact same problem I had when I upgrade from > OOo1 to OOo2. Search the archives and you'll see that Fabian is > correct and that it solved the problem for me. OOo2 runs OK. Opening files from a NFS

Re: Pros and Cons of running under inetd....

2006-05-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 12 May Eric Schuele wrote: > Derek Ragona wrote: > >Yes it is still true today. The default system now has inetd running > >nothing. And the ports now install rc scripts for these reasons. > > Not arguing here... everything I've found on the web says something > similar. > > But why do we ha

Re: FreeBSD Port: phpMyAdmin-2.8.0.3

2006-05-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 12 May fbsd wrote: > How is a normal port user suppose to know to do make config to set > options first? Anybody using the ports tree KNOWS or *should* know he/she has to read /usr/ports/UPDATING before using it. In that file it is very clearly stated you should do a "make config" in lang/php

Re: Bug in Apache 1.3.35 ... or something changed ... ?

2006-05-13 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 12 May Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > * Upgrade to 2.0 or 2.2 (recommended unless you use Apache modules > which don't support it) That is exactly what I will do soon. I know there will be a needed rewrite of the apache.conf but also would like to know if there exists an easy way to make this change.

upgrading to apache 2.2

2006-05-20 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have a working configuration with apache-1.3.x, php4, mySQL As I understand apache-1.3.x is a bit old, so I want to change this config to a working apache-2.2.x + mySQL + php4 Can anybody give me some advice in how to do his? Do I remove all packages first and do a reinstall afterwards? If yes,

Re: staroffice8 port

2006-06-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 04 Jun Dave wrote: > I was wondering if there were any plans to port staroffice8 to > freebsd? Why? We have OpenOffice and that's good enough for me. What does Star offer that OOo does not? -- dick -- http://nagual.st/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running FreeBSD 6.1 ++ The Power to Serve _

kde-3.5.3 screensaver

2006-06-08 Thread dick hoogendijk
Anybody experience the same as I do? After upgrading to the latest kde (from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3) the screensaver within kde stopped working. I can choose which one I would like, test it even, but after "setting" it nothing happens. Very strange, because this option has always just worked. So, is it j

Re: kde-3.5.3 screensaver

2006-06-10 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 08 Jun vayu wrote: > On Jun 8, 2006, at 3:15 PM, Chris Howells wrote: > > >On Thursday 08 June 2006 17:14, dick hoogendijk wrote: > >>Anybody experience the same as I do? After upgrading to the latest > >>kde (from 3.5.2 to 3.5.3) the screensaver within kde sto

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread dick hoogendijk
removing. at least in unix... On a modern UNIX (like solaris nevada) I don't have to unmount those devices. I just can unplug it and nothing "bad" happens ;-) -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv103 ++ + All th

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-11 Thread dick hoogendijk
It's a rock-solid UNIX but like sendmail and it's former bugs and security hazards, a bad name does not go away easy. People tend to repeat eachother for a very long time. "Slowaris" is one of those terms. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sx

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-12 Thread dick hoogendijk
r drivers work very very well. At least they do on solaris (32/64bit). -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv103 ++ + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (Lewis Carrol) __

Re: CMS suggestion on FreeBSD (except Mambo)

2008-12-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
about WordPress? Its code is very nice :) A simple but fast CMS is Textpattern. For heavy duty (and a somewhat steep learning curve) TYPO3 (4.2.3) is very good. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv103 ++ + All that's really w

Re: wich are the difference among freebsd, NetBsd and HPUX?

2008-12-14 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:50:09 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar wrote: > > Hi everybody somebody cand explain me wich are the difference among > > freebsd, NetBsd and HPUX? > NTG. Found a new hobby? Cyber Police? -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | Su

Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors

2008-12-15 Thread dick hoogendijk
ing these self > > appointed "CENSORS" consider verboten. > > you are excellent at messing things up. Look who's talking.. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv104 ++ + All that's really worth doing is what we do for others (

Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 16:40:38 +0100 Eric Masson wrote: > Wojciech Puchar writes: > > think twice before doing. > Could you elaborate please ? Not again this anti-zfs story please.. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv104 ++ + All t

Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
.. > > Is that comment FreeBSD specifc, or aimed at ZFS in general? Mind you, ZFS on FreeBSD is not the same as on OpenSolaris-2008.11, Nevada or even Solaris 10. On those platforms ZFS generally does what it is supposed to do, other than it's still a developing FS. On *BSD re

Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:00:09 +0100 Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > I also read/noticed that ZFS seems to run best on AMD64 platforms. That's not quite correct. ZFS runs best on 64bits platforms. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv104 ++ + Al

Re: flash9 hangs firefox a lot

2009-01-17 Thread dick hoogendijk
rid of that?? thank you!! > > > ask adobe - they wrote flash Flash (Adobe) and FreeBSD don't get along well. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv105 ++ + All that's really worth d

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
x27;t seem to be an upper limit for > ZFS, which I think is very bad. This limit can be tuned. At least on solaris. Also, ZFS definitely prefers a 64 bit kernel. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-09 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
CPU load. Because the ZFS checksumming makes the FS selfhealing. Chance for errors are almost nill. No fsck. Yes, it consumes memory, but memory is cheap, very cheap! CPU load is hardly noticable. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ __

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-10 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
thing clearer? Do your own homework, please. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxde 01/08 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

RE: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-06-12 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 13:37 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > for example you can't select per file (or at least - per > pseudo-filesystem) if you want no protection, mirrored or raidz. Isn't it a pity that the fbsd implementation of ZFS lacks such a feature. Your anti stories of ZFS often show t

Re: Flashplugin

2008-06-16 Thread dick hoogendijk
e with you: Flash is not always shit or not needed. Quite a few times it gives somthing extra that makes the web more attractive. People stating it's advertizing 99% of the time are simply wrong. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++

Re: tex, teTex, LaTeX help

2008-07-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
SD support is included). -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxce snv94 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Sorry - plaintext this time - Disk geometry and two OSes.

2008-08-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
er you can always change to another one. Your diskdata will be safe. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D ++ http://nagual.nl/ + SunOS sxce snv94 ++ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

dhcp resolv.conf and loading priority of network cards

2006-06-22 Thread dick hoogendijk
I have tow nics: a re0 (cabled) and an ath0 (wifi) card. I want the latter to use dhcp like this: defaultrouter="192.168.11.1" hostname="arwen.nagual.st" ifconfig_re0="192.168.11.29 netmask 255.255.255.0" ifconfig_ath0="dhcp ssid air01 nwkey 0xc1e1639b753021ab6d64be2575 hidessid authmode shared"

Re: dhcp resolv.conf and loading priority of network cards

2006-06-22 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Thu, 22 Jun 2006 21:51:15 +1000 Mikhail Goriachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > I have tow nics: a re0 (cabled) and an ath0 (wifi) card. I want the > > latter to use dhcp like this: > > > > defaultrouter="192.168.11.1" >

MySQL5 default

2006-06-25 Thread dick hoogendijk
I need some help / advice on this one. I like to keep my fbsd-6.1 server modern. So when I read about new defaults for OpenLDAP (2.3) and linux_base I changed them. But I have a little hesitation on My SQL. I run a few databases with version 4 (for blogging software, coppermine and textpattern) a

screen blanking and kde

2006-07-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
The machine I use fvwm on blanks the screen after a period of time (the default from Xorg). However, a machine running KDE does not(!), even without the screensaver enabled (in kde). Disabling the saver results in a screen never go blank. So, I guess, kde interfeares with xorg somewhere (disabling

find syntax

2006-07-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
I want to change a string in a number of html files (recursive) In a linux group I got this line: #find /dir/to/htmlfile -name *.html -exec perl -p -i -e "s/nagual.st/nagual.nl/g;" {} \; This gives me an error "unknown option" and does not work. Doing a: perl -p -i -e "s/nagual.st/nagual.nl/g;"

Re: find syntax

2006-07-04 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Tue, 4 Jul 2006 15:10:05 -0400 (EDT) Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > #find /dir/to/htmlfile -name *.html -exec perl -p -i -e > > > "s/nagual.st/nagual.nl/g;" {} \; > > > > You should escape the * that you pass to find: > > > > -name

Re: how to enable mod_ssl in apache 2.2

2006-07-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 04 Jul Gerard Seibert wrote: > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 18:11, jan gestre wrote: > > hi guys, > > > > how do i enable mod_ssl in apache 2.2 in my freebsd 6.1 box so that it > > listens to port 443 instead of the default port 80? is there a special > > command like the a2enmod ssl in debian? > >

Re: HP Officejet Printer

2006-07-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 04 Jul Anish Mistry wrote: > On Tuesday 04 July 2006 20:53, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > > > Anish Mistry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: On Tuesday 04 > July 2006 20:35, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > > > > I'm running FBSD 6.1 release and just got a new printer for my > > > > birthday, it's an HP Officejet 431

Re: HP Officejet Printer

2006-07-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
alignment settings stored in the printer are not made use of, so use a > one-cartridge (CMY) printing mode in case of mis-alignments" > > "perfectly"? > - Original Message - > From: "dick hoogendijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > This printer w

Re: Conflict between avahi and howl/mDNSResponder

2006-07-06 Thread dick hoogendijk
> Currently, avahi conflicts with howl/mDNSResponder. > The current conflict has the following consequence: I cannot update the > applications that depend on avahi because avahi cannot be updated. This issue was solved quite some time ago. The agreement still stands as I remember. -- dick -- htt

Re: Conflict between avahi and howl/mDNSResponder

2006-07-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 07 Jul Willy Picard wrote: > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 09:55:11PM +1000, Sam Lawrance wrote: > > This has been raised a number of times, check the archives. > > First, thank you very much for this very interesting contribution!!! > This is a real good piece of help! A little ironic here are you?

Re: a good www/picture management port?

2006-07-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 24 Jul Mike Hunter wrote: > I haven't tried gallery on FreeBSD, but I highly recommend it based on > my experience with it on Linux. The same goes for me, but for coppermine. A really great program and very well maintained. -- dick -- http://nagual.nl/ -- PGP/GnuPG key: F86289CE ++ Running F

mail rejected

2006-07-26 Thread dick hoogendijk
All of a sudden mail to this list is rejected. My IP can't be found. It always was, so this is weird. I checked with a "dig @large.world.ns" and a few others and they all resolved my name / IP OK. I send this mail through my provider (which works). Anybody else experiencing this change in behaviour

Re: mail rejected

2006-07-27 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 26 Jul Richard Collyer wrote: > > On Wed, July 26, 2006 8:37 am, dick hoogendijk wrote: > > All of a sudden mail to this list is rejected. My IP can't be found. > > It always was, so this is weird. I checked with a "dig > > @large.world.ns" and a few ot

update info on ports

2006-07-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
Normally I upgrade my ports if I see new versions. But now I have a question: I saw a new apache22 version (apache-2.2.2_1) but on the apache site I could not find anything related to security bugs or whatever. I *did* find a version 2.2.3 though (not yet in ports!) So now I wonder, what is the di

Re: update info on ports

2006-07-30 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 30 Jul Mikhail Goriachev wrote: > dick hoogendijk wrote: > > So now I wonder, what is the difference of port apache-2.2.2 and the > > latest one "apache-2.2.2_1" > > Others already mentioned you about the vulnerability found in v2.2.2. > As an addition, you

Re: Skip/ignore certain makes using portupgrade ...

2006-08-01 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 01 Aug [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's the best way to ignore certain dependancies within makefiles > while running a portupgrade? > > For example, I don't want to build the Galeon webbrowser everytime, but > it is present in the Gnome2 makefile. See the HOLDPKG statement in /usr/local/etc/p

options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE

2006-08-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor. I recompiled the kernel with options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console. Nice, but the characters are just "fat" compared to the chars I get in Xorg r

17" or 19"

2006-08-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) The 19" is $100 more expensive as the 17" What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. Go for the 17" or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) 19" one. I'm not that rich. Probably my doubts are rooted in this;-) Tha

Re: Portupgrade disable certain builds ...

2006-08-05 Thread dick hoogendijk
On 05 Aug Kiffin Gish wrote: > I would like to disable building certain builds when running a > portupgrade -arR. > > For example, if gnome2 is tagged for a rebuild, Galeon is not built > (because I don't use it and have deleted the package). As I wrote earlier, see pkgtools.conf => HOLDPKG optio

eaccelerator hit: log msgs

2006-08-07 Thread dick hoogendijk
Installing eAccelerator with apache2.2.3/php4 was easy enough. It is indeed a lot faster, BUT, However, my httpd-error.log very fast with lots and lots of rules like: EACCELERATOR hit:"/usr/local/www/horde/imp/config/servers.php" etc, etc.. I don't want these lines to appear. How and where can

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