freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-24 Thread Adam PAPAI
I feel that the FreeBSD project doesn't have enough sparc64 build machine. Is this the reason why binary freebsd-update is not available for sparc64 arch? The only methods for upgrading sparc64 are reinstall or build from source? -- Adam PAPAI

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-24 Thread Mark Linimon
You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. Right now I'd just be happy if I can get all the major ports to work :-) mcl ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-24 Thread Adam PAPAI
Mark Linimon wrote: You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. Right now I'd just be happy if I can get all the major ports to work :-) mcl If I can do something for this project, please tell me what to do :) I

Upgrading from 6.1 to 7.3

2010-03-24 Thread Sigmar Muuga
Hello, have anybody done something like this? Is it reasonable or is it better to make a clean install? Sigmar ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Upgrading from 6.1 to 7.3

2010-03-24 Thread Adam PAPAI
On 3/24/10 10:53 AM, Sigmar Muuga wrote: Hello, have anybody done something like this? Is it reasonable or is it better to make a clean install? You should read this: http://people.freebsd.org/~rse/upgrade/freebsd-upgrade-6x-7x.txt -- Adam PAPAI

Re: delete directory

2010-03-24 Thread krad
On 24 March 2010 00:42, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.com wrote: Aiza wrote: This directory named empty has read/exec permissions. How do I delete it? # /usr/jails/newjail/var ls -l total 2 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 21 22:53 empty # /usr/jails/newjail/var cd empty #

Re: OpenOffice 3.2 fails to build on FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64

2010-03-24 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/23/10 17:31, Sean McAfee wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: As I mentioned, I did not and I can't risk deinstalling the working OO first and then installing and probably a failing OO 3.2. Regards, O. Hartmann You can use `pkg_create -b name_of_port-with_version` to create a binary backup.

Re: Upgrading from 6.1 to 7.3

2010-03-24 Thread Mikolaj Rydzewski
Sigmar Muuga wrote: have anybody done something like this? Is it reasonable or is it better to make a clean install? I've performed successfull upgrade from 6.x to 7.x a few days ago, there's no need for any special hacks. Just cvsup to latest 6.4-REL, build from sources, just like

Re: OpenOffice 3.2 fails to build on FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64

2010-03-24 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 10:09:36 + O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de articulated: Just for the record: deleting OO 3.1.1 via pkg_delete and trying to install new OO 3.2 fails at the same point as before. OO creates files in the $HOME and other directories that are not automatically

simple zfs query

2010-03-24 Thread John
Hello list, With ZFS and 3x 2Tb SATA disks, what percentage of theoretical diskspace would I realise? I'm hoping at least 5Tb would be usable? thanks -- John - comp dot john at googlemail dot com OpenBSD firewall | FreeBSD desktop | Ubuntu Karmic laptop GPG: 0xF08A33C5

Re: Free BSD Licensing

2010-03-24 Thread Richard Tobin
As the FreeBSD license is less restrictive than the GPL, it's pretty much safe to say that wherever you are permitted install GPL'd software, you could substitute FreeBSD licensed software without legal penalty. (Note: *install* -- redistribution is a different matter) You do not have to

Re: simple zfs query

2010-03-24 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/2010 10:31:51, John wrote: With ZFS and 3x 2Tb SATA disks, what percentage of theoretical diskspace would I realise? I'm hoping at least 5Tb would be usable? That depends on how you configure your zpool. The choices are: disk -- just

Re: delete directory

2010-03-24 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 08:29:41AM +0800, Aiza wrote: This directory named empty has read/exec permissions. How do I delete it? # /usr/jails/newjail/var ls -l total 2 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 21 22:53 empty # /usr/jails/newjail/var cd empty # /usr/jails/newjail/var/empty ls -l

Re: delete directory

2010-03-24 Thread Nathan Vidican
Check the chflags; 'man chflags' On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 8:29 PM, Aiza aiz...@comclark.com wrote: This directory named empty has read/exec permissions. How do I delete it? # /usr/jails/newjail/var ls -l total 2 dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Nov 21 22:53 empty # /usr/jails/newjail/var cd

Re: sendmail UTF-8

2010-03-24 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:29:27 +0100, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, I want to sendout mail the following way: sendmail -t filename where the file 'filename' contains some header lines, especially To: Subject: and From: and as well the body of the mail; all is in

Firefox 3.6.X and Thunderbird 3.0.X crashing with Radeon graphics on FBSD 8.0-STABLE SMP/sm64 box

2010-03-24 Thread O. Hartmann
Since the introduction of Thunderbird 3.0 and Firefox 3.6 I see spontanous crashes/coredumps of both thunderbird and firefox. Interingly Firefox 3.5.X works well on he same platform. The platform is a FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE/amd64 (r205536: Tue Mar 23 22:19:04 CET 2010), SMP box with 8GB of RAM,

Re: Firefox 3.6.X and Thunderbird 3.0.X crashing with Radeon graphics on FBSD 8.0-STABLE SMP/sm64 box

2010-03-24 Thread Gary Jennejohn
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:32:40 + O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Since the introduction of Thunderbird 3.0 and Firefox 3.6 I see spontanous crashes/coredumps of both thunderbird and firefox. Interingly Firefox 3.5.X works well on he same platform. The platform is a

Re: FreeBSD NFS client goes into infinite retry loop

2010-03-24 Thread John Baldwin
On Tuesday 23 March 2010 7:03:06 pm Rick Macklem wrote: On Tue, 23 Mar 2010, John Baldwin wrote: Ah, I had read that patch as being a temporary testing hack. If you think that would be a good approach in general that would be ok with me. Well, it kinda was. I wasn't betting on it

tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello I am having a slight issue (and judging by Google results, similar issues have been seen by other FreeBSD and Solaris/OpenSolaris users) with writes choking the read IO. The issue I am having is described pretty well here: http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?threadID=106453 It seems

Re: Upgrading from 6.1 to 7.3

2010-03-24 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 11:53:43AM +0200, Sigmar Muuga wrote: Hello, have anybody done something like this? Is it reasonable or is it better to make a clean install? It is always good to make a 'clean install' but upgrading from some 6x to 7.3 should be reasonably doable. (Note, you failed

Re: tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: Has anyone done any extensive testing of the effects of tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending on this issue? Is there some universally recommended value beyond the default 35? Anything else I should be looking at? The vdev.max_pending value is primarily used to

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Key
Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 7.2, and am attempting to update to 8.0. I've been through the standard, make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel but cannot get the newly installed kernel to boot. The system freezes as soon as the loader tries to boot the

Re: tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 24), Bob Friesenhahn said: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Dan Naumov wrote: Has anyone done any extensive testing of the effects of tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending on this issue? Is there some universally recommended value beyond the default 35? Anything else I should be

Re: Unable to boot FreeBSD 8.0

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Key
Christopher Key wrote: Christopher Key wrote: Hello, I'm using FreeBSD 7.2, and am attempting to update to 8.0. I've been through the standard, make buildworld make buildkernel make installkernel but cannot get the newly installed kernel to boot. The system freezes as soon as

Pure-ftpd non anonymous

2010-03-24 Thread m.anis
Hi all, i'm still new on freebsd, please help me. i had installed pure-ftpd. it is working with the anonymous login. i'd like to make it non anonymous login, so only authenticated user can log in. here what i did : # Don't allow authenticated users - have a public anonymous FTP only.

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Re: Pure-ftpd non anonymous

2010-03-24 Thread Adam PAPAI
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/24/10 8:07 PM, m.anis wrote: # Disallow anonymous connections. Only allow authenticated users. Did you restart pure-ftpd after the changes? /usr/local/etc/rc.d/pure-ftpd stop /usr/local/etc/rc.d/pure-ftpd start - -- Adam PAPAI -BEGIN

Re: tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Bob Friesenhahn
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Dan Nelson wrote: I had similar problems on a 32GB Solaris server at work. Note that with compression enabled, the entire system pauses while it compresses the outgoing block of data. It's just a fraction of a second, but long enough for end-users to complain about bad

Re: simple zfs query

2010-03-24 Thread krad
On 24 March 2010 11:33, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24/03/2010 10:31:51, John wrote: With ZFS and 3x 2Tb SATA disks, what percentage of theoretical diskspace would I realise? I'm hoping at least 5Tb would be usable?

8.0 amd64 - Royally screwed up MBR (My own fault)

2010-03-24 Thread Gene
Greetings - (not a draft notice) First thanks to those who responded to my previous question. Next... I was attempting to install 8.0 amd64 w/ZFS. I used instructions from the wiki and when I had trouble, I decided to beat a strategic retreat and just do a vanilla install. Problem was that

Re: tuning vfs.zfs.vdev.max_pending and solving the issue of ZFS writes choking read IO

2010-03-24 Thread Ivan Voras
Dan Naumov wrote: Hello I am having a slight issue (and judging by Google results, similar issues have been seen by other FreeBSD and Solaris/OpenSolaris users) with writes choking the read IO. The issue I am having is described pretty well here:

Re: 8.0 amd64 - Royally screwed up MBR (My own fault)

2010-03-24 Thread Henrik Hudson
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010, Gene wrote: Greetings - (not a draft notice) First thanks to those who responded to my previous question. Next... I was attempting to install 8.0 amd64 w/ZFS. I used instructions from the wiki and when I had trouble, I decided to beat a strategic retreat and just

Re: freebsd-update(8) under sparc64? Why is it not available?

2010-03-24 Thread Marius Strobl
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 02:57:09AM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote: You're the first one to ask in a while. Since our userbase is small, and developer time is limited, we've never set it up. The last time this topic came up IMO there was quite some interest in getting this running but the

Re: Firefox 3.6.X and Thunderbird 3.0.X crashing with Radeon graphics on FBSD 8.0-STABLE SMP/sm64 box

2010-03-24 Thread O. Hartmann
On 03/24/10 15:06, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 13:32:40 + O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Since the introduction of Thunderbird 3.0 and Firefox 3.6 I see spontanous crashes/coredumps of both thunderbird and firefox. Interingly Firefox 3.5.X works well on he

sysinstall: You need to assign disk labels before you can proceed with the installation

2010-03-24 Thread Christopher Key
Hello, Having run into various problems trying to upgrade from 7.2 to 8.0, I'm instead trying to perform a clean install using sysintall. I've downloaded 8.0-RELEASE-amd64-memstick.img, modifed it to use a serial console and flashed it to a USB drive. This boots quite happily, and presents me

Compiling kernel with gcc43

2010-03-24 Thread Mario Lobo
Hi; I followed the instructions from http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/custom-gcc/article.html to see if I can achieve some performance gain (8-STABLE r205630 amd64) and also get a more modern instruction set for my Phenom II (amdfam10), so I've done the following config settings:

OT: Rhyme

2010-03-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am in deep need of help right now. I am preparing some training about using email and am looking for that small rhyme saying that you should reply after the quote of the original message, not before it. That rhyme is written backward saying something like why whouldn't you back quote,

Install of Apache 2.2.15 after installing ssl lastes

2010-03-24 Thread Rob Weissenburger
I have been picking my brain apart trying to figure this one out. Any help is appricated. ./configure --prefix=/usr/local/apache --mandir=/usr/local/man --enable-ssl --enable-suexec --enable-cgi --enable-rewrite --enable-so --enable-modules=most --enable-mods-shared=max

hoope THIS works...

2010-03-24 Thread Gary Kline
for reasons that are beyond me, a few hours ago i stopped being able to connect with my mail server. mutt tells me (connection refused); the other GUI mailer say zip; they simply do not connect. i rebooted my HUB among other things; before that, i could not get outside my network; nor could

Re: hoope THIS works...

2010-03-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
for reasons that are beyond me, a few hours ago i stopped being able to connect with my mail server. mutt tells me (connection refused); the other GUI mailer say zip; they simply do not connect. i rebooted my HUB among other things; before that, i could not get outside my network; nor

FreeBSD 8 / amd64 / Xorg / nvidia GeForce 5200

2010-03-24 Thread Tim Gustafson
Hi, My workstation runs FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE amd64. I have Xorg 1.6.5 and an nVidia GeForce 5200 dual head video card. Currently the first head of the card is operating well using the nv driver. I tried to compile the nvidia-driver port, but it tells me that I need nvidia-driver-173 because

Re: OT: Rhyme

2010-03-24 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? Is this the one you mean? Top posting, that's the word I was missing, now I could find that: A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is

Re: OT: Rhyme

2010-03-24 Thread Arun S
That rhyme is written backward saying something like why whouldn't you back quote, because it is difficult to read. It's not a rhyme, but it reminds me of this quote: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? Is this the

Re: OT: Rhyme

2010-03-24 Thread Sergio Tam
2010/3/24 Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th: Hi, A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? Is this the one you mean? Top posting, that's the word I was missing, now I could find that: A: Because it fouls the