Re: First time user problems

2009-03-20 Thread Masoom Shaikh
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:00 AM, Alhaji Barrie alhaji.bar...@comcast.netwrote: I am a new user of Free BSD. I just completed the install of Free BSD on a Dell PC but I cannot get past the initial login prompt. I typed the user name I supplied during the installation process to no avail. In

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread Keith Seyffarth
At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6: * 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking computer * 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4) * 0% chance of shutting down successfully if

Building packages without installing them?

2009-03-20 Thread Ross
I want to use my home server to build Xorg and KDE packages for a desktop. man ports says make package will install the port. I don't need Xorg on the server and I would like to tweak make.conf to build for a different architecture. Is there a way to do this?

Re: Building packages without installing them?

2009-03-20 Thread Paul Procacci
Ross wrote: I want to use my home server to build Xorg and KDE packages for a desktop. man ports says make package will install the port. I don't need Xorg on the server and I would like to tweak make.conf to build for a different architecture. Is there a way to do this?

CARP Load Balance by CUP - Memory - Ethernet Usage

2009-03-20 Thread Hari Emani
Good Day every one! We have a situation and we are looking for a solution (the client is specific to implement this way): We are using FreeBSD FW cluster (2 units) for our DMZ zone. We are using CARP for VIP and round robin load balance. The result is not always balance, most of the times

[MailServer Notification]To Sender file blocking settings matched and action taken.

2009-03-20 Thread Administrator
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Re: Building packages without installing them?

2009-03-20 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
I do believe that man pkg_create will give you the correct answer :) Regards, Ivailo Tanusheff Deputy Head of IT Department ProCredit Bank (Bulgaria) AD Ross basarev...@gmail.com Sent by: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org 20.03.2009 09:21 To freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc Subject

Re: Building packages without installing them?

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 19 March 2009 22:48:47 Ross wrote: I want to use my home server to build Xorg and KDE packages for a desktop. man ports says make package will install the port. I don't need Xorg on the server and I would like to tweak make.conf to build for a different architecture. Is there a way

Re: KDE4 port hangs, archives - handbook no help.

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Thursday 19 March 2009 15:50:22 Gene wrote: Morning All: I've searched the archives and googled and generally applied what I found to no good effect. While installing the kde4 port, I got to libspectre. The libspectre port insists that I must have libgs to compile it. What pulls in this

Re: Building packages without installing them?

2009-03-20 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Ross wrote: I want to use my home server to build Xorg and KDE packages for a desktop. man ports says make package will install the port. I don't need Xorg on the server and I would like to tweak make.conf to build for a different architecture. Is there a way to do this? Use

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Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread Fbsd1
Keith Seyffarth wrote: At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6: * 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking computer * 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4) * 0% chance of

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread Neal Hogan
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 2:15 AM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. Try a smaller one, like evilwm. It's (pretty much) all command line. For example, you would open up a term and launch firefox from there (#

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009, Keith Seyffarth wrote: At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. Here are the major problems with XFCE4 4.6: * 20% probability of starting X without crashing and locking computer * 20-25 minutes to start X (was about 1 under XFCE4 4.4)

Re: KDE4 port hangs, archives - handbook no help.

2009-03-20 Thread Gene
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:01:29 -0800, Mel Flynn wrote On Thursday 19 March 2009 15:50:22 Gene wrote: Morning All: I've searched the archives and googled and generally applied what I found to no good effect. While installing the kde4 port, I got to libspectre. The libspectre port

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread Neal Hogan
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:21:05PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: The last couple of days I've been running portupgrade -av and am to the point where I'd like to move onto something else, but there is one package that

RE: Portsnap vs CSup

2009-03-20 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
From: f...@brightstar.bomgardner.net To: ch...@monochrome.org; cho...@charter.net Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:45:11 -0600 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap vs CSup On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:50:48 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill wrote On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Charles Howse wrote:

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread Graham Bentley
Got X? You already got one ;-) http://81.174.174.115/twm/twmrc.htm ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

RE: Portsnap vs CSup

2009-03-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
compiling the kernel on that could take several days by itself let alone compiling X and then a thick GUI like KDE or GNOME. amazing that a 100MHz system with 48 megs of ram can still run so fast if you build it right. for sure not KDE, but X and FreeBSD itself with good software running on

Re: Linux Compatability

2009-03-20 Thread rasz
Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 3/18/09, rasz raszo...@gmail.com wrote: hi i have 2 distinct questions, and first is, i installed a linux app (binaries) and it failed when run complaining that it needs a CPU with SSE instuctions enabled. does anyone know what this is and related too? For

Re: issues in XFCE 4.6 (looking for a working WM)

2009-03-20 Thread RW
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 01:15:37 -0600 (MDT) Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote: At this point, I guess I'm looking for recommendations on a window manager. The XFCE upgrade went smoothly for me, apart from missing icons, although I don't use it all that much so I may have missed something. At

Re: KDE4 port hangs, archives - handbook no help.

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 20 March 2009 05:21:20 Gene wrote: On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 00:01:29 -0800, Mel Flynn wrote On Thursday 19 March 2009 15:50:22 Gene wrote: Morning All: I've searched the archives and googled and generally applied what I found to no good effect. While installing the kde4

Old slow computers can still crank away (Formerly RE: Portsnap vs CSup)

2009-03-20 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:48:26 +0100 From: woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: millenia2...@hotmail.com CC: f...@bomgardner.net; ch...@monochrome.org; cho...@charter.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Portsnap vs CSup compiling the kernel on that could take several days

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread Adam Vandemore
Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:21:05PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: The last couple of days I've been running portupgrade -av and am to the point where I'd like to move onto something else, but there is

Re: 7.1 64 bit

2009-03-20 Thread Gal Lis
Hi everyone, I have a mixed update: I was able to get it running, but once it starts, it gets stuck. Here are the last two lines: isab0: pci-isa bridge. at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: isa bus on isab0 Please let me know if you need more info, or you have any advice on what this could be. On Wed,

MySQL 5.0 on FreeBSD 7

2009-03-20 Thread Matt Juszczak
Hi all, About a year ago, I setup MySQL 5.0.45 on a FreeBSD 6.x box (64 bit). I read at the time that the use of pthreads with FreeBSD would significantly improve performance, but as I was running the 64 bit version of FreeBSD, I could not use them. Fast forward to today - a different

Re: ipfw and carp

2009-03-20 Thread gahn
Thanks! Indeed I did have: ${fwcmd} 140 allow all from $CARP-PEER_physical_interface to any via $local_external_interface But it alone doesn't seem to be enough, sometimes it work but sometimes it doesn't. with tcpdump, sometimes I can't see the VRRPv2 advertisement. So now i added:

Re: MySQL 5.0 on FreeBSD 7

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 20 March 2009 09:38:27 Matt Juszczak wrote: I decided to install a 64 bit version of FreeBSD 7.x (to address the 8 GB RAM in the box) and attempt to build with pthreads enabled, as well as a static build and optimized compiler options. Once again, got the error/warning in ports that

Re: MySQL 5.0 on FreeBSD 7

2009-03-20 Thread Adam Vandemore
Matt Juszczak wrote: Hi all, About a year ago, I setup MySQL 5.0.45 on a FreeBSD 6.x box (64 bit). I read at the time that the use of pthreads with FreeBSD would significantly improve performance, but as I was running the 64 bit version of FreeBSD, I could not use them. Fast forward to

Re: MySQL 5.0 on FreeBSD 7

2009-03-20 Thread Adam Vandemore
Matt Juszczak wrote: Hi all, About a year ago, I setup MySQL 5.0.45 on a FreeBSD 6.x box (64 bit). I read at the time that the use of pthreads with FreeBSD would significantly improve performance, but as I was running the 64 bit version of FreeBSD, I could not use them. Fast forward to

Re: First time user problems

2009-03-20 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:30:33PM -0400, Alhaji Barrie wrote: To put it simply, I am missing the syntax for the user name and password. Can someone help with the step by step process of getting past the original login screen? Just remember that username and password are case sensitive.

Re: MySQL 5.0 on FreeBSD 7

2009-03-20 Thread Matt Juszczak
You're confusing linux-threads with pthreads. The performance boosts mentioned are done using the FreeBSD Posix threads (pthreads) library, in FreeBSD 7.x they are implemented using libthr(3). The benchmarks also assume you are using SCHED_ULE, rather then SCHED_4BSD. Nothing should be configured

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-20 Thread cpghost
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 12:13:52AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: For a special application, I need a programmable dialog library that has... well, how to describe it... anyone know SIOS? Or at least TSO? A bit like this. A kind of form-driven screen layout. Besides dialog(3), there's also a C++

Re: Old slow computers can still crank away (Formerly RE: Portsnap vs CSup)

2009-03-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
for sure not KDE, but X and FreeBSD itself with good software running on it works FAST on 100Mhz machine with 48MB RAM. Yes compiling is slow, but normal usage is FAST. I never used gnome or KDE on it, ran Blackbox insted. of course it's fast. and even slower machines like 486/33

Re: Booting freebsd 7.1 from Firewire or USB2 drive

2009-03-20 Thread Timm Wimmers
Andrew Moran schrieb: Hey guys, I was wondering if anyone had any success in installing FreeBSD 7.1 on a USB2 or Firewire 800 drive connected to an intel Mac Mini and successfully booting off of it? If I remember right, enable the Open Firmware prompt to boot to other devices than

Re: Formatting a tape?

2009-03-20 Thread Michael L. Squires
This looks like a hardware problem to me. However, I don't have any experience with this type of SCSI hardware. If it were my system I'd be double-checking the tape drive setup, cabling and termination, and then substituting other cables and SCSI controllers. One thing that confuses me is

Re: Need help for acroread8

2009-03-20 Thread Manish Jain
Hello Boris, I followed your leads and I am now left with the following : Gtk-Message: Failed to load module gnomebreakpad: libgnomebreakpad.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (acroread:41717): Pango-WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically

Re: Need help for acroread8

2009-03-20 Thread Boris Samorodov
Manish Jain invalid.poin...@gmail.com writes: Hello Boris, I followed your leads and I am now left with the following : Please, show what exactly you have done. And give output of two commands from those URLs. And try to not top-post. Otherwise you yourself won't understand the email.

Temporary unsubscribe

2009-03-20 Thread Al Plant
Aloha, I need to unsubscribe for a month. I keep getting rejected from the server at unscribe. Any known issues with that? Cound the keeper of the mail please contact me. Thanks, -- ~Al Plant - Honolulu, Hawaii - Phone: 808-284-2740 + http://hawaiidakine.com + http://freebsdinfo.org +

Re: Temporary unsubscribe

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 20 March 2009 12:38:22 Al Plant wrote: I need to unsubscribe for a month. I keep getting rejected from the server at unscribe. Any known issues with that? Since I changed email address just yesterday, I have seen no issues. I used the webinterface. -- Mel

Re: 7.1 64 bit

2009-03-20 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Gal Lis galg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, I have a mixed update: I was able to get it running, but once it starts, it gets stuck. Here are the last two lines: isab0: pci-isa bridge. at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: isa bus on isab0 Please let me know if you

Re: Temporary unsubscribe

2009-03-20 Thread Al Plant
Mel Flynn wrote: On Friday 20 March 2009 12:38:22 Al Plant wrote: I need to unsubscribe for a month. I keep getting rejected from the server at unscribe. Any known issues with that? Since I changed email address just yesterday, I have seen no issues. I used the webinterface.

Re: MySQL 5.0 on FreeBSD 7

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 20 March 2009 10:46:20 Matt Juszczak wrote: You're confusing linux-threads with pthreads. The performance boosts mentioned are done using the FreeBSD Posix threads (pthreads) library, in FreeBSD 7.x they are implemented using libthr(3). The benchmarks also assume you are using

7.1 mysql-server-60 stalls

2009-03-20 Thread Christoph Kukulies
I did a pkg_add -r mysql60-server and then # mysql_install_db --user=mysql Installing MySQL system tables... 090320 17:11:24 [Note] Falcon: unable to open system data files. 090320 17:11:24 [Note] Falcon: creating new system data files. ^T ^T load: 0.01 cmd: mysqld 1028 [uwait] 0.01u 0.01s 0%

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread Neal Hogan
In light of Adam's comment and thinking about the comment he's responding to, I realize that I may have been rather obnoxious. I appreciate Adam setting that aside to give me and the list some of his time. I'm rather new to fBSD (obvious) and I've got my parent's machine on it, which is hundreds

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 10:14:32AM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 03:21:05PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: The last couple of days I've been running portupgrade -av and am to the point where I'd like

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread Neal Hogan
Well Frank, if/when you read my most recent comment, you'll notice that I've probably confused ports and packages again. As has been the case for the past week or so, thanks for taking the time. On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 5:17 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread Adam Vandemore
Neal Hogan wrote: In light of Adam's comment and thinking about the comment he's responding to, I realize that I may have been rather obnoxious. I appreciate Adam setting that aside to give me and the list some of his time. I'm rather new to fBSD (obvious) and I've got my parent's machine on

Re: 7.1 mysql-server-60 stalls

2009-03-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 20), Christoph Kukulies said: I did a pkg_add -r mysql60-server and then # mysql_install_db --user=mysql Installing MySQL system tables... 090320 17:11:24 [Note] Falcon: unable to open system data files. 090320 17:11:24 [Note] Falcon: creating new system data

speed in extracting rar files - unrar vs. 7z

2009-03-20 Thread Ghirai
Hey, Does anyone know a faster way of extracting big rar files, or why is it so slow? I did a quick test with time (extracting the same ~800MiB file, consisting of split archives): unrar: real4m29.637s user0m4.969s sys 0m3.131s 7z: real3m50.020s user0m4.784s sys

Re: Old slow computers can still crank away (Formerly RE: Portsnap vs CSup)

2009-03-20 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 13:12:12 -0400, Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com wrote: Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:48:26 +0100 for sure not KDE, but X and FreeBSD itself with good software running on it works FAST on 100Mhz machine with 48MB RAM. Yes compiling is slow, but normal usage is

Re: Text mode dialog library like TSO

2009-03-20 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:34:52 +0100, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Besides dialog(3), there's also a C++ class library that emulates Borland's Turbo Vision's SAA interface. Two implementations are in ports: devel/rhtvision devel/tvision Ugh! :-) The day I got a TurboPascal 7.0 box

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-20 Thread Gary Dunn
On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 11:17 +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 3/18/09, Gary Dunn knowt...@aloha.com wrote: On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 18:53 +0100, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: Saifi Khan

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread RW
On Fri, 20 Mar 2009 17:04:00 -0500 Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: But, I wonder what the most efficient way is to update ports. I appreciate Adam's point about the fact that portupgrade (and portmanager and portmaster) are ports themselves and are going to not be as reliable as what is

Re: speed in extracting rar files - unrar vs. 7z

2009-03-20 Thread RW
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:53:16 +0200 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: The shareware WinRAR on windows seems to be better implemented (?), as it uses both cores to the fullest, and as such the time needed to extract stuff is a lot shorter. IIRC the unix version is portable C, but winrar has a lot

Linux binaries on FreeBSD

2009-03-20 Thread Sabeeh Baig
Does Maya for Linux run on FreeBSD via the compatibility layer? Also, does a recent version of Matlab for Linux run on FreeBSD via the compatibility layer? The Handbook only mentions Matlab 6.3, which is very old and dated. Sabeeh ___

Re: speed in extracting rar files - unrar vs. 7z

2009-03-20 Thread Mel Flynn
On Friday 20 March 2009 17:55:49 RW wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:53:16 +0200 Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote: The shareware WinRAR on windows seems to be better implemented (?), as it uses both cores to the fullest, and as such the time needed to extract stuff is a lot shorter. IIRC the

Re: portupdate xorg-server

2009-03-20 Thread Adam Vande More
RW wrote: IMO this doesn't make any sense. If portupgrade is failing on a port where manual make install works, then portupgrade simply has a bug. Any port upgrading tool belongs in a port, because it's more important that it responds to changes in the ports system than changes in the base