Re: cups-1.4.2 usb printer not recognized [solved]

2009-12-22 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Freitag, den 18.12.2009, 04:41 +0100 schrieb Peter Ulrich Kruppa: > Am Dienstag, den 15.12.2009, 07:28 -0500 schrieb Lowell Gilbert: > > Peter Ulrich Kruppa writes: > > > > > since my update to cups-1.4.2 I can't print anymore :-( > > > > > > I h

Re: request

2009-12-20 Thread Peter Boosten
Isn't Iran one of the countries US does not export to? That could explain the unability to download... Peter -- HTTP://www.boosten.org On 20 dec 2009, at 06:38, Marwan Sultan wrote: Hello Akbar, Before submitting a question, make sure its a proper question! and before attem

RE: Any chance ZFS becoming default?

2009-12-19 Thread peter harrison
op, and an old P3 server. ZFS would be a disaster for me. Peter Harrison. ___ 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: cups-1.4.2 usb printer not recognized

2009-12-17 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Dienstag, den 15.12.2009, 07:28 -0500 schrieb Lowell Gilbert: > Peter Ulrich Kruppa writes: > > > since my update to cups-1.4.2 I can't print anymore :-( > > > > I have got a HP Deskjet 990 Cxi attached to an USB port. > > My system is a FreeBSD 8.0 -STA

diagnostic test

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Wemm
Test ___ 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"

black hole test

2009-12-16 Thread Peter Wemm
Daignostic message to trace mailing list processing, please ignore. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would de

cups-1.4.2 usb printer not recognized

2009-12-13 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi, since my update to cups-1.4.2 I can't print anymore :-( I have got a HP Deskjet 990 Cxi attached to an USB port. My system is a FreeBSD 8.0 -STABLE amd64. I can cat some words to /dev/ulpt0 but that's about all. When I access http://localhost:631 no local printer will show up. Any ideas?

Question regarding getifaddrs

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Steele
I use this function to retrieve a list of network interfaces on a system. This works well enough with one exception--here seems to be multiple entries for each of the interfaces, and the data in the duplicate entries isn't the same. What is the proper way to filter the list of structures returne

RE: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-09 Thread Peter Steele
>I started out doing this a couple of months ago, and the project has been a >wealth of experience and knowledge, to say the least. > >Once you are able to do manage building a release, you can actually build your >own update server and distribute binary updates on your custom kernel. Hmm, inter

RE: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread Peter Steele
Add my name to the list--we get tons of these messages since upgrading to 8.0 -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Bernt Hansson Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2009 10:24 AM To: J.D. Bronson Cc: freebsd-

RE: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
>Ah, you _probably_ want to do 'make release' -- I have no experience with this >however to be much more help if that _is_ what you need. Didn't know about that one. I'll have to check it out--thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

RE: What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
> By the way, I beleive a good part of /etc is installed/reinstalled by > a make installworld and/or mergemaster. I should have clarified my scenario better. I am building a BSD image from scratch, as part of an automated process. I am not updating an existing system. I had been doing this by i

What is proper process for source installs?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
We had been building systems from the binary release plus our custom kernel. In doing that we just used the base collection from the 8.0 binary release DVD and copied our kernel files to /boot/kernel. We are now doing both installworld and installkernel. The issue I'm having is figuring out what

RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
>b) go with gpt / gpart, which is okay if FreeBSD will > be the only OS that accesses the disk(s) in question, > as I may assume by your statements. That's correct; these will be strictly BSD accessible drives. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
>Excuse me, you're mixing up terminology here. Let me explain: > >A SLICE is what "Windows" calls a "DOS primary partition", often just named a >"partition". Yes, I know what a BSD slice is compared to a BSD partition. Considering that fdisk uses "partition" interchangeably in cases with "slice"

RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
>You cannot use fdisk for this, because fdisk creates MBR partition tables and >these partitions are limited to 2 TB. You have three >options: > >1. Use GPT instead of MBR. This is handled by gpt (FreeBSD 7) and gpart >(FreeBSD 8) commands. We're running 8.0. I'll have to check out gpart. >2. U

RE: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
> In the subject line, you wrote "large partition", so I assume you won't want > to boot from from the device, but use it as a big storage area instead. > Correct me if I'm wrong. For simplicity I didn't include all the details. In fact we need three slices, one for the OS, one for swap, and th

How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

2009-12-08 Thread Peter Steele
We have 3U systems with 3Ware raid controllers configured to give us large 11TB logical drives. The diskinfo command shows this: # diskinfo -v da1 da1 512 # sectorsize 1133104128 # mediasize in bytes (11T) 23437369344 # mediasize in sectors 145

root mount waiting for umass_cam_rescan

2009-12-07 Thread Peter Steele
I've prepared a USB boot key and it comes up okay until the point it's about to mount root. It sits hung at the "Trying to mount root from: /dev/da0s1a", and a few lines earlier I see the message "root mount waiting for: umass_cam_rescan". Anyone know what this is about? ___

RE: Is there the equivalent of a Windows "fast format" for UFS?

2009-12-04 Thread Peter Steele
Okay, thanks for the reply. I know where I need to go from here... -Original Message- From: Maxim Khitrov [mailto:mkhit...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, December 04, 2009 12:23 PM To: Peter Steele Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Is there the equivalent of a Windows "fast f

Is there the equivalent of a Windows "fast format" for UFS?

2009-12-04 Thread Peter Steele
I suspect I know the answer to this question but I'll ask it anyway. We're dealing with some very large disks (11TB raid array) and a newfs operation takes a significant time. Is there any way to get a volume formatted faster than the typical newfs does?

Is this a correct disk label?

2009-12-03 Thread Peter Steele
I have a USB disk that I partitioned with fdisk and bsdlabel. I used the -w option of bsdlabel to write a standard label. The label itself looks fine: # bsdlabel da0s1 # /dev/da0s1: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 7823576 164.2BSD 2048 16

RE: "missing operating system"

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Steele
16065 blks/cyl) Do you want to change our idea of what BIOS thinks ? [n] Should I answer yes to this query? -Original Message- From: Matt Szubrycht [mailto:ma...@bmihosting.com] Sent: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 5:43 PM To: Peter Steele Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re

"missing operating system"

2009-12-02 Thread Peter Steele
Okay, so I've seen this error many times and its cause has always been clear. In this case I'm stumped. I've got a 3U SuperMicro server with 16 drives hooked up to two 3Ware controllers. The drives are configured into two logical drives da0 and da1. I've installed a FreeBSD 8.0 OS on da0 but whe

stable/8/UPDATING - no mention of 8.0 release

2009-11-30 Thread Peter
ATING?view=markup It just confused me for awhile after I did a 'svn up' and did not see the release notes... [for the 7.X series, both stable/ and release/ mention the release in UPDATING] ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

RE: Sorting a device list

2009-11-29 Thread Peter Steele
I ended up using ls /dev/ad*|sort -g -k1.8 Not quite as generic as I wanted but it works... From: Oliver Mahmoudi [mailto:olivermahmo...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 10:36 AM To: Peter Steele Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sorting a device list you can try to

RE: Sorting a device list

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Steele
I had tried that. It doesn't work: # ls -d1 /dev/ad* | sort -n /dev/ad10 /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 /dev/ad8 I want the ad10 to appear last... -Original Message- From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keram...@ceid.upatras.gr] Sent: Saturday, November 28, 2009 4:31 PM To: Peter Steele Cc: fr

Re: evoultion missing its top graphics [on menu-bar]

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Am Samstag, den 28.11.2009, 15:01 -0800 schrieb Gary Kline: > Folks, I t think I asked here a couple years ago when the > same thing happened; I didn't think it would happen again. > > Evo works fairly well--is there a way I can make it my default > GUI mailer?-- I hope so.

Sorting a device list

2009-11-28 Thread Peter Steele
Can anyone recommend a quick and dirty way to sort a device list? For example, if I do this: ls /dev/ad* | sort I get something like this: /dev/ad10 /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 /dev/ad8 I can add -g, but it doesn't help: ls /dev/ad* | sort -g /dev/ad10 /dev/ad4 /dev/ad6 /dev/ad8 I need to skip the de

gmirror creation problem in 8.0

2009-11-23 Thread Peter Steele
I have a script that configures a mirrored file system and have been using this successfully in 7.0 without any issues. The commands I use to set up the mirror are: gmirror label -v -n -b round-robin gm0 ad4s1 gmirror configure -a gm0 This never gave me any trouble in 7.0, but in 8.0 the config

Postgresql download site

2009-11-21 Thread Peter Steele
What's the best place to pick up the latest 7.0 and 8.0 packages for postgresql client and server? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-quest

Re: rTorrent + FreeBSD + pf = freeze?

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Kieser
rrent and had a number of torrents open the machines would lock up or restart. It was reproducible at the time, but I could never get anyone to admit there was a bug and I'm unable to find the initial posting. Regards, -Peter Michael Schaefer wrote: Hello everybody, I encountered same pr

What does "Audit record was not committed" during login imply?

2009-11-19 Thread Peter Steele
I've installed a BSD 7.0 system and I am getting the error "login: Audit record was not committed" when I try to login. What would cause this? I am using a custom process to do the BSD install onto USB boot disks, but we've been using it for months and I've never seen this error when we've boote

Re: Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Jeremy
> >Why isn't LinkedIn in FreeBSD.org's spam blocker? I have raised this with postmaster@ and he is investigating how to block this spam. -- Peter Jeremy pgpPzDB5BrVIV.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: ELF library not found error

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Steele
>Presumably (and I am speculating), the 8.0 packages are not yet finalized and >therefore inconsistent. Perhaps you will have better luck after the official >8.0 Release? I was thinking the same thing--too much version mismatching going on. I'm going to take your suggestion though and compile

RE: ELF library not found error

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Steele
If both the 6.x and 7.x compatibility packages are installed and this error still occurs, what's the culprit? -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter Steele Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 5:14

RE: ELF library not found error

2009-11-18 Thread Peter Steele
orts that have been built on an 8.0 system with a custom kernel that was built on a 7.0 system? -Original Message- From: Norbert Papke [mailto:npa...@acm.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2009 10:47 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Steele Subject: Re: ELF library not found err

RE: ELF library not found error

2009-11-17 Thread Peter Steele
I should have mentioned that this shared library mentioned in the error is in fact present. For some reason though these apps seem to think it's missing... -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Peter S

ELF library not found error

2009-11-17 Thread Peter Steele
I did a search for this error and got numerous hits, none which really seemed to explain my situation. I've installed an 8.0 RC3 system and included Python 2.5, 2.6, and 3.1. The 2.6 version appears to run fine. However, for both 2.5 and 3.1 I get the error: ELF interpreter /libexec/ld-elf.so.1

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

2009-11-14 Thread Peter
r, /tmp, /usr] and can't combine them into one huge one because your /home is on the same slice. ]Peter[ ___ 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: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
>Labels are an excellent solution in this case. I've done some quick research on this and it will indeed solve the issue regarding a generic fstab. I have a related question though. I want to take this a step further and convert the bootable USB stick into a bootable CD-ROM image. This is a lit

RE: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
>In this case, labelling the USB stick would be a good chioce. The /etc/fstab >entries then refer to those labels instead of device names (that could change). >You can use generic labels as well as UFS labels here; even a reference to the >UFSID would be possible, as well as independant from da d

RE: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
>If you could elaborate more on the goal you are seeking, other useful >information could come from this list. At the moment, it's just my wild >guessing. :-) I have a bootable FreeBSD image on a USB stick that clones itself on the target system's hard drive, creating partitions and other confi

Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
When a system has a USB drive present, the system typically names it /dev/da0. However, if the system has SATA drives hooked to an LSI controller, or if the system has SCSI drives, the same drive prefix is used as is for the USB drive. For our purposes, we'd like to separate the USB drive from t

Re: Remote ssh tunnel in background or script?

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Boosten
On 9 nov 2009, at 20:36, patrick wrote: Check out /usr/ports/security/autossh autossh is a program to start a copy of ssh and monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic. The original idea and the mechanism were from rstunnel (Reliable SSH Tunnel). With this v

Converting a bootable USB stick in to bootable CD-ROM

2009-11-09 Thread Peter Steele
I have a FreeBSD image that I install on USB sticks to build new systems. When the stick boots it automatically clones itself on the system's hard drive, creating partitions and other configuration parameters that are programmed into the stick's cloning logic. I want to create a similar mechanis

freebsd partitions on a dos/fat slice?

2009-11-08 Thread Peter
g/reading a lot of data from it just fine - Curios why s1 is being detect as a 'fat' partition and not a fbsd slice. Have not tried to put this disk into a windows/another box... ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

OpenWBEM for FreeBSD?

2009-11-03 Thread Peter Steele
Anyone know if there is a port for OpenWBEM for FreeBSD? I did some searching but couldn't find anything, although I did find references saying that there is a FreeBSD port. I couldn't find anything in the usual places though... ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: xen or virtualbox or vmware ?

2009-11-02 Thread Peter
> Hi > > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Peter wrote: >> iH, >>   Trying to setup a new 'virtual' environment. >> Goal is to run freebsd in a virtual environment for ease of management >> and >> just because I've finally got _new_ hardware tha

xen or virtualbox or vmware ?

2009-11-02 Thread Peter
omething similar, especially the xen type of setup or would one recommend a freebsd and virtualbox ? What dom0 have you found to work best with xen? Just looking for thoughts/ideas/experience. ]Peter[ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Problem installing dvdauthor...

2009-11-02 Thread Peter Harrison
Sunday, 1 November 2009 at 23:43:26 +0100, usleepl...@gmail.com said: > Dear Peter, > > On Sat, Oct 31, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Peter Harrison > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > Can anyone advise what I'm doing wrong trying to install > > multimedia/dvdauthor

RE: Example of using mount() function?

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Steele
> See /usr/src/sbin/mount/mount_ufs.c from RELENG_6. Essentially, this > argument should be a ufs_args struct as defined in > /usr/include/ufs/ufs/ufsmount.h. Okay, got it. Thanks very much! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Example of using mount() function?

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Steele
I want to call the mount() function to perform the same action as running the following mount command from the command line: mount -t ufs -o noatime /dev/adXXX /mnt The man page lists the signature of mount() as int mount(const char *type, const char *dir, int fl

Re: dvdauthor can't find fribidi headers?

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Harrison
ake[2]: Leaving directory > `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/src' > gmake[1]: *** [all] Error 2 > gmake[1]: Leaving directory > `/usr/ports/multimedia/dvdauthor/work/dvdauthor-0.6.14/src' > gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 >

Re: What VM does FreeBSD run well under

2009-10-31 Thread Peter Thoenen
Virtual Box runs it great, both as a host and a guest (its also in the port collection) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubs

Problem installing dvdauthor...

2009-10-31 Thread Peter Harrison
#x27; gmake: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 *** Error code 1 This is on: FreeBSD laptop.piggybox 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Sat Oct 10 13:54:52 BST 2009 r...@laptop.piggybox:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LAPTOP i386 With a ports tree updated last night. What am I missing? Thanks for the help.

RE: system() call causes core dump

2009-10-31 Thread Peter Steele
>In UNIX it is not safe to perform arbitrary actions after forking a >multi-threaded process. You're basically expected to call exec soon after the >fork, although >you can do certain other work if you are very careful. >The reason for this is that after the fork, only one thread will be runnin

system() call causes core dump

2009-10-31 Thread Peter Steele
I have an application running a number of threads. I've had recent instances where the code below is causing a core dump to occur: char fstatCmd[200]; char *fstatOut = "/tmp/fstat.out"; sprintf(fstatCmd, "fstat | grep -v USER | wc -l >%s", fstatOut); rc = system(fstatCmd); The call is simply int

Lagg driver not working on HP Proliant

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Steele
We just purchased an HP Proliant DL320 G6, a 1U server with two Broadcom NICs. When configured as standalone interfaces, the two NICs work fine. However, when configured as a failover lagg pair, we cannot assign an IP to the lagg0 interface. We are using the following entry in our rc.conf file:

RE: changing cron's From: address in emails

2009-10-24 Thread Peter
iH, Would this do it? server:$pwd /usr/src/usr.sbin/cron server:$grep -Ri "Cron Daemon" * cron/do_command.c: fprintf(mail, "From: %s (Cron Daemon)\n", usernm); Recompile cron? ]Peter[ **

cpdup always copying files even if they are the same [but diff user]

2009-10-23 Thread Peter
364783 76 cpdup.user.1 newserv:$ls -li cpdup.* 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 76 Oct 23 18:29 cpdup.root 13 -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 76 Oct 23 18:29 cpdup.user 12 -rw-r--r-- 1 user wheel 76 Oct 23 18:29 cpdup.user.1 The copying takes a lot longer when going from server to server and different users

Re: Accessing LDAP via web

2009-10-18 Thread Peter Boosten
of the capabilities of an LDAP server. Most modern browsers support the ldap:// syntax, to browse the LDAP server as an address book. For you to do so over the internet, you would need access to 389 TCP/UDP, are these ports opened up? Furthermore,

Re: pf, ssh related question

2009-10-17 Thread Peter Boosten
. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ 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: CMS

2009-10-15 Thread Peter Boosten
us site is a nostalgic site, the Joomla site has been converted to Wordpress. The latter can be upgraded from the browser. Neither of these are installed by ports, all by source. MySQL is from ports, btw, as is all supporting software, like apache, gd, whatever. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org __

Re: network freebsd computers

2009-09-22 Thread Peter
Window's machines; however, not > with each other. > > Where can I find a go How-To on how to accomplish this? Hi, Maybe you are looking for this ? http://www.freebsddiary.org/nfs.php Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Postfix and SASL.

2009-09-21 Thread Peter Ankerstål
m maillog: Sep 21 14:41:48 system authdaemond: Authenticated: sysusername=, sysuserid=125, sysgroupid=125, homedir=/usr/maildirs, address=pe...@pean.org , fullname=Peter Ankerstål, maildir=pe...@pean.org/, quota=51200, options= Sep 21 14:41:48 system postfix/smtpd[47155]: warning: SASL

RE: Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Steele
>Not really, unless you manually change master. However I believe this also >causes a slight or even bigger network outage. Any reason you're not using >loadbalance algorithm, since it seems to suit you better? Our resident network guru is quite opposed to using the loadbalancing option since i

Can lagg0 failback be prevented?

2009-09-16 Thread Peter Steele
I posted this on the -net list but didn't get any responses. I'm hoping a wider audience might help. We're using the lag driver to provide automatic failover in case of a network outage. The default configuration looks like this: lagg0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=19b

RE: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Steele
#x27;ll allocate an extra 8GB of swap space through an image file and let QA run their stress tests to see how things behave. That's the only way to know for sure if this will work for us. Thanks for the feedback. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

RE: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Steele
>Nowadays having swap twice as RAM is not necessary. If your system wasn't >swapping much in the past you can safely stay with 4G in my opinion... >extending it to 16G >would be waste of space :) I won't bore you with the details but in fact our application *does* require this much swap space,

RE: Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-09 Thread Peter Steele
I think a dedicated swap partition is probably a safer option. Peter -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Daniel Bye Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:57 AM To: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'

Using mdconfig for swap space

2009-09-08 Thread Peter Steele
Are there any advantages to using mdconfig and creating a virtual disk for swap space as opposed to having a designated swap partition? For example, I could do something like this: mdconfig -a -t swap -f /var/swap0 -s 4g swapon -a /dev/md0 to add 4G to the system swap space backed by the file /

One MAC, two IP with DHCP (dhclient) how?

2009-09-04 Thread Peter B
In an enviroment where the ethernet network interface is connected to a public ethernet network (internet). And a IPv4 address assignment scheme is static. One can simple add primary IP by: ifconfig inet 1.2.3.4 And an additional aliases with: ifconfig inet 1.2.3.5 alias This alias IP can

Re: measuring mysql usage

2009-08-31 Thread Peter Boosten
can think of is 'mysqladmin processlist', or you could log queries for a while. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ 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: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 10:37:48 -0400, Jerry said: > On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 11:32:09 +0100 > Peter Harrison wrote: > > > I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone > > offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? > > > > Is it as

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 11:55:38 -0400, ill...@gmail.com said: > 2009/8/26 Wayne Sierke : > > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:32 +0100, Peter Harrison wrote: > >> I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone > >> offer some advice on movi

Re: Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 26 August 2009 at 23:54:12 +0930, Wayne Sierke said: > On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:32 +0100, Peter Harrison wrote: > > I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone > > offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? > > > > Is it as simpl

Firefox 3.5...

2009-08-26 Thread Peter Harrison
I've Firefox 3.0.11,1 on my 7.2-release system at the moment. Anyone offer some advice on moving up to 3.5? Is it as simple as pkg_delete'ing 3.0 and then installing 3.5? Thanks for any thoughts. Peter Harrison. ___ freebsd-questions@f

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-25 Thread Peter Harrison
litches which the currently available patch only partially resolves. Peter Harrison. > > as for linux... no way.. had too many hack experiences during the > early years. that's why i made the switch to bsd. i would like to make > my own port (super-port?), build a distro, and d

Re: netbooks for freebsd?

2009-08-23 Thread Peter Harrison
st of the errors. Let me know if you're interested and I'll ping it over (or try the acpi list to see if there's an update). Haven't tried suspend-resume, but I am running the broadcom wireless successfully with ndis. Peter Harrison. > > Steve >

Lock order reversals on RELENG_8

2009-08-20 Thread Peter Cornelius
Hi, Are these lock order reversals reported any reason for preoccupation and/or should I report elsewhere? The kernel I just built does not boot at all, so I don´t know whether these are a closed issue already. I´m off for a couple of days and will retry then. Thanks & regards, P

Re: Desktop Install Option

2009-08-19 Thread Peter Cornelius
;s option of "Standard Desktop"? For those > who need it, it'd be great. Not sure what you are looking for but I have a feeling that it may be something like http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/url.cgi?ports/sysutils/desktopbsd-tools/pkg-descr http://desktopbsd.net/ Rgds, Peter. -- G

loader halting

2009-08-12 Thread Peter Andreev
Good day. While server is booting, I see this: /boot.config: -Dh BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS drive D: is disk1 BIOS 637kB/3668864kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 (em...@email, Fri A

RE: How is time zone change signalled?

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Steele
>I wonder if you'd get more insight by asking the question in -hackers. >Perhaps there are some libc experts listening there. Well, I still haven't found the magic so I'll try my luck there... Thanks for the feedback. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

RE: How is time zone change signalled?

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Steele
>Did you try unsetting TZ and then calling tzset()? The man page implies that doing so will force a reread of /etc/localtime >(http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=tzset&sourceid=opensearch): > >"The tzset() function initializes time conversion information used by the library routine localtime

How is time zone change signalled?

2009-08-07 Thread Peter Steele
We have a suite of applications with a Java GUI controlling everything. One of the actions the user can perform is to set the time zone. We do this through our Java application and update the /etc/localtime as required. We also make an API call to tell the JVM that the time zone as changed, and fro

Re: eclipse install

2009-08-05 Thread Peter Boosten
27;t need to download things manually via a web > browser in this old fashioned way. :-) Unfortunately this is not true for the jdk. But it's only a minor disadvantage ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Secure password generation...blasphemy!

2009-08-04 Thread Peter Boosten
ough perhaps VMS users are > better trained in password safe keeping. > Password guessing will crack these in a jiffy. Hardly secure I would say... I use apg, like this: /usr/local/bin/apg -x 8 -m 8 -l -MSNCL -s 8 characters, minimal one capital, number and special sign, and I could use a previous used password (or random) as input. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ 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"

snd_uaudio.ko (USB audio driver) doesn't work on FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64

2009-08-02 Thread Peter Ulrich Kruppa
Hi, since I upgraded to FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64 my sound device doesn't work anymore. In my /boot/loader.conf I have got snd_uaudio_load="YES" # kldstat shows Id Refs AddressSize Name 1 35 0x8010 ce46e0 kernel 21 0x80d

Diablo JDK threads implementation

2009-07-29 Thread Peter Steele
We've developed a server platform around FreeBSD 7.0 consisting of several applications written in C and one primary application written in Java (JDK 1.6). We're seeing cases in some of ouor stress tests where some threads in our JAVA application appear to get no CPU time for extended periods of ti

RE: What order are options in rc.conf processed?

2009-07-27 Thread Peter Steele
P assigned" path, even though we have an IP defined in rc.conf. We're trying to understand how this could happen and are wondering how the options in rc.conf are processed. -Original Message- From: Jason [mailto:jhelf...@e-e.com] Sent: Monday, July 27, 2009 2:44 PM To: Pete

RE: What order are options in rc.conf processed?

2009-07-27 Thread Peter Steele
>rc.conf is just a script that sets a bunch of environment variables for the >/etc/rc.d/* scripts to use. The order the variables are set in that file >does not matter. If you want your script to run after network interfaces >are set up, you'll want to add a "REQUIRE: NETWORKING" line. See the >

What order are options in rc.conf processed?

2009-07-27 Thread Peter Steele
We have an rc.conf file that looks something like this: ifconfig_nfe0="UP" ifconfig_nfe1="UP" cloned_interfaces="lagg0" ifconfig_lagg0="laggproto failover laggport nfe0 laggport nfe1 netmask " defaultrouter= ... ourapp_enable="YES" In a recent reboot test, when "ourapp" started, it c

running out of inodes

2009-07-25 Thread Peter
/dev/aacd0s1d4.8G 62M4.4G 1% 1425 6580290% /var What is the best way to handle it ? Thanks in advance. Peter Zyumbilev ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: jpeg-7 - rebuild all dependencies - how?

2009-07-24 Thread Peter Boosten
Daniel Bye wrote: > On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 02:03:43PM +0200, Ewald Jenisch wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Updating one of my sytems I followed /usr/ports/UPDATING and did a >> "pkg_delete -r jpeg-6b_7" - only to discover that everything that > > Au contraire, Blackadder. UPDATING says to run either of > >

Re: OFFTOPIC: HP DL1xx vs IBM x3250 vs DELL R200

2009-07-14 Thread Peter
Tim Judd wrote: > On 7/13/09, Peter wrote: > Building your own box is more likely to support naturally and best > option than HP/IBM/Dell if you want complete customization -- but you > or your company may prefer a commercial support option if things go > awry. > > Good lu

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
Steve Bertrand wrote: > > I like whatever works in regards to the situation I'm facing ;) And that's the best possible reason one could have! ;-) Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: Should DNS be on same server as webserver?

2009-07-14 Thread Peter Boosten
find why the other products are not as good as theirs, and keep holding onto old bugs and prejudices. I'm a happy bind user for years now (and I use sendmail as well). Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

OFFTOPIC: HP DL1xx vs IBM x3250 vs DELL R200

2009-07-13 Thread Peter
Gigabit Ethernet NIC Sliding Rack Kit for Dell Racks (Rapid Rails) Prices are almost the same :-) Please recommend. Thanks in advance. Peter ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: VLC server

2009-07-08 Thread Peter
Graeme Dargie wrote: > I did that before I started the install. > > Regards > > Graeme > > As a workaround, try to compile ffmpeg first. Make "make config" for ffmpeg and make sure libamr is NOT enabled. It is a workaround

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