Re: Can One Query an Oracle 10 Data Base under FreeBSD?

2009-06-03 Thread Jose Garcia Juanino
El miércoles 03 de junio a las 00:41:16 CEST, Michael L. Squires escribió: There is a port of the Oracle instant client which runs under Linux emulation in /usr/ports/databases/linux-oracle-instantclient-basic,sdk,sqlplus This appears to use the 10.2.0.3 Oracle Linux instant client. I

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is somehow flooded. Dns is probably fairly busy. It's the primary authorative dns for some busy domains. Is there a setting I can do to increase the limits of UDP packets to keep it from causing problems? it would need

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc. Given enough incentive, it unfortunately seems even open source developers will resort to sneaky tactics:

RE: Intel NIC issues

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
snip I opened the case and the motherboard does not match what was supposed to be in the machine. I will contact the supplier and see what happens from there. Maybe it was just a mistake, but i bet not. At least here putting other cheaper products in computer and getting a price for the

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I want to know out of your experience people the following, 1- How open source served your businesses  requirements? Better performance, stability savings. Only saving is a feature of Open Source software. Others are features of just particular programs you use! 2- What kind of

sshd in jail

2009-06-03 Thread Sajó Zsolt Attila
Hi! I would like use the sshd in jail, but the port forwarding doesn't work in the pf firewall. My jail ip: 10.0.0.40. If I use the ssh -l user 10.0.0.40 command it's well, but when I use the ssh -p 5859 -vv -l user luk1814.no-ip.org command I get this error: OpenSSH_5.1p1 FreeBSD-20080901,

Re: sshd in jail

2009-06-03 Thread Valentin Bud
2009/6/3 Sajó Zsolt Attila sajozsatt...@citromail.hu Hi! I would like use the sshd in jail, but the port forwarding doesn't work in the pf firewall. My jail ip: 10.0.0.40. If I use the ssh -l user 10.0.0.40 command it's well, but when I use the ssh -p 5859 -vv -l user luk1814.no-ip.org

Re: what about BadAtom Error?

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/3 PstreeM China pstr...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: 2009/6/1 PstreeM China pstr...@gmail.com: hi all:     yesterday , after i upgrade my Ports, use the command #portupgrade -arR  ...     then , my program rox is error ..

Re: Test

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/3 Al Plant n...@hdk5.net: Test -- Now try using freebsd-test@ ;) Chris -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in a mailing list?

Re: acpi HD spin down and CPU sleep

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/3 Tim Judd taj...@gmail.com: On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 11:17 PM, mojo fms fbsdli...@gmail.com wrote: How would I configure freebsd 7.1 (7.2 upgrade in the future) to sleep the HD's and maybe sleep the CPU after an idle time out?  I am trying to save power and I would like it to wake on

Re: sshd in jail

2009-06-03 Thread Sajó Zsolt Attila
Thank you the help, but it doesn't work yet. I prefer the rdr pass on $Ext inet proto tcp from any to any port 5859 -gt; 10.0.0.40 port 22, but I tried all ways, but absolutely nothing's changed. -- Eredeti üzenet -- Feladó: Valentin Bud lt;valentin@gmail.comgt; Címzett: Sajó Zsolt

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-06-03 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Mon, Jun 01, 2009 at 05:48:29PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar typed: every donation is highly welcome. Please have a look at http://www.freebsdfoundation.org/donate/sponsors.shtml As you can see, every donor is mentioned, no matter how small the amount. They'll display a link for donations of

pkg_deinstall: delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z

2009-06-03 Thread Dan Naumov
Hello list. I am trying to clean up a system with a LOT of cruft. Is there some argument I could pass to pkg_deinstall that would result in delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z (and obviously their dependancies)? Thanks! - Dan Naumov

Re: [FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE] Audio going silent after wakeup.

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Sunday 31 May 2009 22:06:53 LoH wrote: Unloading the module, letting it suspend on its own, then waking it up and reloading the module does not cause the symptoms to appear. Wish I knew offhand what was being called to let it suspend, and which state it was. See man acpiconf. Basically

Re: pkg_deinstall: delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello list. I am trying to clean up a system with a LOT of cruft. Is there some argument I could pass to pkg_deinstall that would result in delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z (and obviously their dependancies)? just do pkg_info |cut -f 1 -d /tmp/pkglist edit pkglist and

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:49:50AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for other programs i have on disk, my addressbook etc. Given enough incentive, it unfortunately seems even open source developers will resort to sneaky

Re: pkg_deinstall: delete all packages installed, except for X, Y and Z

2009-06-03 Thread Dan Naumov
Thanks a lot, this worked like a charm! - Dan Naumov On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Wojciech Pucharwoj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Hello list. I am trying to clean up a system with a LOT of cruft. Is there some argument I could pass to pkg_deinstall that would result in delete all

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 6/3/09, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Unfortunately there are no well done WWW browsers for unix in the world. links -g is an exceptions, but in the same time it's quite limited. But have best fonts :) You're right: browser code is overly complex, and a nightmare to

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Unfortunately there are no well done WWW browsers for unix in the world. links -g is an exceptions, but in the same time it's quite limited. But have best fonts :) You're right: browser code is overly complex, and a nightmare to audit properly for security purposes. links is not complex, and

Re: Set task priority

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 01:05:13 Steve Bertrand wrote: What is the best way to set priority on my task in order to ensure it completes as quickly as possible, but does not cause a situation where other programs and their children can't respond? You may want to consider the fact that

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 00:46:20 Wojciech Puchar wrote: named[69750]: client *ip removed*: error sending response: not enough free resources quite misleading message, but the problem is that named want to send UDP packet and get's error from kernel. possible reasons - your

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
possible reasons - your firewall rules are the cause - check it. - your network card produce problems (REALLY i have that case) - the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is somehow flooded. - the network card changes from UP to DOWN state at the time of the error See that a lot running

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 11:48:48 Wojciech Puchar wrote: possible reasons - your firewall rules are the cause - check it. - your network card produce problems (REALLY i have that case) - the network/LAN named tries to sent UDP packet is somehow flooded. - the network card changes

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 11:24:02AM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: secondarily and only when absolutely necessary with the usual firefox+noscript+abp... both browsers running in a virtual box (qemu, virtualbox) dedicated to this purpose and this purpose only. Exaggeration IMHO. just make

How to reset a connection stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state

2009-06-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I am runnig FlexNet license manager on FreeBSD (6.4), this is alinux application, but it is running smoothly. The problem occurs sometime at stop time, it will not stop cleanly and leave a connection in CLOSE_WAIT state. As a result, the ports are not freed and the license managerserver

Re: cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-03 Thread Jeff Laine
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:19:01PM +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: Jeff Laine wrote: The troublemaker is the cyrus. It starts and opens it's sockets, but whenever I try to establish a connection to pop3 or imap ports (i.e. via telnet or cyradm) cyrus goes nuts and spawns child processes in

Re: How to reset a connection stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:38:24PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I am runnig FlexNet license manager on FreeBSD (6.4), this is alinux application, but it is running smoothly. The problem occurs sometime at stop time, it will not stop cleanly and leave a connection in CLOSE_WAIT state.

Re: How to reset a connection stuck in CLOSE_WAIT state

2009-06-03 Thread Jeff Laine
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 05:38:24PM +0700, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, I am runnig FlexNet license manager on FreeBSD (6.4), this is alinux application, but it is running smoothly. The problem occurs sometime at stop time, it will not stop cleanly and leave a connection in CLOSE_WAIT state.

Re: named: error sending response: not enough free resources

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Not really. The point is that at the time the network card goes from up to down, named spits out this error. If you log named to a different log file then /var/log/messages, you will not see the relation. The reason for changing this is one reason i always change syslog.conf to configure

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
virtualbox) dedicated to this purpose and this purpose only. Exaggeration IMHO. just make sure your normal user has 700 permissions, create another and run browser from it. What about permissions in X? Even if you started the browser as another user, you'd still have to xhost + that user. And

phidgets for FreeBSD?

2009-06-03 Thread Ghirai
Is there any (native) FreeBSD supoprt for Phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com? Someone seems to have attempted (and succeeded) to run things on 7.0, some time ago, but there doesn't seem to be any further info (http://www.phidgets.com/phorum/viewtopic.php?f=2t=507). Any ideas? Thanks. -- Ghirai.

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:15:32PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: there, it's easy to hijack the X session (including keylogging etc.). You mean Xorg can easily be hijack'ed that way? If you can connect to the X server, you can also attach any kind of monitoring software to it. Think

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Glen Barber
On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 9:33 AM, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: There are MUCH simpler methods. Just pay few bucks to charwoman to look at papers glued to monitor with passwords on them ;), or maybe a minute more to look at different places. Oh yes indeed: THAT's always bee the more serious

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You mean Xorg can easily be hijack'ed that way? If you can connect to the X server, you can also attach any kind of monitoring software to it. Think vncserver and the like... vncserver creater new X server. Can't monitor yours unless you have special module for X server installed and loaded

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Oh yes indeed: THAT's always bee the more serious threat, security-wise. A colleague of mine is a Windows administrator for a local company. I didn't think people actually did this until he told me a little People do even more things. In my public internet access network i found that 90%

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:53:07AM -0400, Glen Barber wrote: My colleagues never understood (nor do they to this day) my paranoia regarding security and untrusted code. I always point them in the same direction: http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html YES! An absolute classic. We're

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread cpghost
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 04:45:42PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: You mean Xorg can easily be hijack'ed that way? If you can connect to the X server, you can also attach any kind of monitoring software to it. Think vncserver and the like... vncserver creater new X server. Can't monitor

Re: cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 12:41:31 Jeff Laine wrote: Thanks for your reply, Eric. Running master in debugging mode helped to find out that I had 640 permissions on libdb* files. Doh. I'd file a bugreport upstream, this is not a debug level message but critical error condition, in fact with

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
* http://www.randombit.net/code/logger.c compiled this, did ./logger 0xed where 0xed was my other xterm then typed at least 10 lines at that xterm window got: -rw--- 1 wojtek wheel0 3 cze 18:23 logger-ed.log ___

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Another perfect example that open source alone can't guarantee open source - just by being opensource - can't guarantee anything more that availability of sources. It's important to stay away of all that hype that opensource programs are just better. Many are, many not.

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:12:28 madunix wrote: 3- General experience with Open Source technology? Kinda getting fed up with the amount of trolling lately and loving Sieve. -- Mel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-03 Thread Erik Norgaard
Mel Flynn wrote: On Wednesday 03 June 2009 12:41:31 Jeff Laine wrote: Thanks for your reply, Eric. Running master in debugging mode helped to find out that I had 640 permissions on libdb* files. Doh. I'd file a bugreport upstream, this is not a debug level message but critical error

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
* /usr/ports/security/xspy but this do. so 2 X servers are compulsory... thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Mounting Encrypted ISO and mdconfig

2009-06-03 Thread Azim
Because I need something like TrueCrypt on FreeBSD. Decrypting the whole ISO file first will make the situation insecure and definitely will kill the purpose. An accidental reboot alongwith loss of the system/disk while having the iso in a decrypted form can cause problems. I need decryption on

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 18:21:28 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: open source - just by being opensource - can't guarantee anything more that availability of sources. It's important to stay away of all that hype that opensource programs are just better.

freebsd-update from 7.0 to 7.2

2009-06-03 Thread Dave
Hello, I've got an older machine running 7.0. I ran freebsd-update upgrade on it to update it to 7.2, aftetr two reboots i'm still seeing 7.0 in the uname -r output. I did not get any errors during the download or installation of patches. Is this a recommended upgrade path? Thanks.

Re: Mounting Encrypted ISO and mdconfig

2009-06-03 Thread Tim Judd
Does it need to be an ISO file? i'm just curious why you can't use a UFS file that's then geli encrypted? If it does need to be an iso, simply make the same UFS filesystem (2k blocksize) of 700MB and geli encrypt that. It'll still burn to CD, but won't be a CD Filesystem. Does this help? On

Re: cyrus-imapd spawning multiple processes

2009-06-03 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 18:34:28 Erik Norgaard wrote: Of course, some condition that causes a proces to exit unexpectedly ought to give a clearer log message, and it shouldn't keep retrying, for that you might consider sending a bug report to the developers. That's exactly what I meant.

Re: freebsd-update from 7.0 to 7.2

2009-06-03 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Dave wrote: Hello, I've got an older machine running 7.0. I ran freebsd-update upgrade on it to update it to 7.2, aftetr two reboots i'm still seeing 7.0 in the uname -r output. I did not get any errors during the download or installation of patches. The syntax for upgrading to a

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 10:59:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: I would add - with Open Source add it's far smaller (actually close to zero) probability that it doesn't do anything except it's supposed to do. I mean things like sending private data to someone else, scanning for other programs i

Re: Mounting Encrypted ISO and mdconfig

2009-06-03 Thread Azim
No it need not strictly be an iso. Infact I want a 10 GB file. I had given GELI encrypted UFS file a thought but I want it to be mountable from MS-Windows as well. UFS Explorer mounts UFS Disks but allows one way data xfrer (from UFS to Windows). You cannot write onto using UFS Explorer. Besides

Re: Mounting Encrypted ISO and mdconfig

2009-06-03 Thread Tim Judd
Maybe if instead of you asking about filesystem compatibility (we all know that problem), what if you ask on what your purpose for this cross is. Because I know I'll be shooting from the hip to try to understand the scenario before I can be of real help. --Tim On 6/3/09, Azim

Re: Mounting Encrypted ISO and mdconfig

2009-06-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:43:22PM +0300, Azim wrote: No it need not strictly be an iso. Infact I want a 10 GB file. I had given GELI encrypted UFS file a thought but I want it to be mountable from MS-Windows as well. UFS Explorer mounts UFS Disks but allows one way data xfrer (from UFS to

Swap on ZFS - still a bad idea?

2009-06-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
Putting swap on ZFS is listed as broken on the wiki. Is that still true of the newly MFC'ed version? -- Kirk Strauser ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'd like to add that IF security problems get discovered in OSS, it's usually just a matter of few time that this problem gets corrected. This is mostly because the public is able to look at that's true - i pointed it out at the beginning. It can be found easily that someone adds backdoor

Re: Mounting Encrypted ISO and mdconfig

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
If you need true-crypt compatible encryption you must ask truecrypt for FreeBSD port :) If you like good encryption at all, use geli. it's useful for any block device. Recording encrypted DVD's are bit tricky, but not difficult. Then you use them as any normal block device.

Re: Swap on ZFS - still a bad idea?

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Putting swap on ZFS is listed as broken on the wiki. Is that still true of the newly MFC'ed version? No idea. You may just make separate partition for swapping and it will work. Good if you have swap just for sure. If your system needs swapping under normal operation, using ZFS is really

ethernet card not working

2009-06-03 Thread David Collins
Hi, I have just gotten an old ethernet card, not entirely sure how old it is but it has pulse H1012 on one of the chips and appears as ethernet device fxp0 in freebsd 7.0. When I plug an ethernet cable between this card and another computer (freebsd 7.2) ifconfig says that the status has no

Re: Can One Query an Oracle 10 Data Base under FreeBSD?

2009-06-03 Thread Tyson Boellstorff
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 17:07:57 Gary Gatten wrote: Surely there's a native Oracle SQL or ODBC client in the ports collection. Have you checked there? I believe OP is looking for assurances that the oracle 7 and 8 clients listed in ports/databases would work. If he just needs a connection

RE: ethernet card not working

2009-06-03 Thread Gary Gatten
Maybe the MAC card has auto MDI-X? You usually need a crossover cable to connected two computers directly without a hub/switch. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Collins Sent: Wednesday, June 03,

RE: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Gary Gatten
Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere? Is it true OSS? Also, how many people actually review source code AND have the skills to find security related issues? Seems mostly black hats would be interested in this as they have ulterior motives whereas typical users just want to use the software for what

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 08:32:38PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: A counter-example is VMS. It is a commercial product, but highly reliable and secure. At least is said too, i never used or even seen VMS. When Digital Equipment Corporation collapsed, the architect(s) of VMS went to

RE: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Gary Gatten
Yes, and that old urban legend, that Windows NT is better than VMS, so the initials are one higher in each position - at least in my alphabet: VMS WNT Lots of interesting little things between VMS and WNT. G PS: Sorry again for top posting - I'll try harder! Is this appropriate topic for this

Re: ethernet card not working

2009-06-03 Thread Michael Powell
David Collins wrote: Hi, I have just gotten an old ethernet card, not entirely sure how old it is but it has pulse H1012 on one of the chips and appears as ethernet device fxp0 in freebsd 7.0. When I plug an ethernet cable between this card and another computer (freebsd 7.2) ifconfig

Re: ethernet card not working

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
unplug either end and plug it into my ibook (OS X) the status changes to active and I can ping the other computer. From this I can see that both both freebsd computers have working ethernet cards and the cable works also, just not freebsd-freebsd. Does anyone have any ideas why this might be the

RE: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere? Is it true OSS? No. it's just product name, and is closed source. They changed the name when IMHO it started to provide some api that allow porting apps from other systems (like unix) easier. Also, how many people actually review source code AND have the

RE: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Yes, and that old urban legend, that Windows NT is better than VMS, so the initials are one higher in each position - at least in my alphabet: Actually - this man and few others from Digital made good job on kernel programming. Micro-soft f..ed everything else up.

Re: Swap on ZFS - still a bad idea?

2009-06-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 01:36:37 pm Wojciech Puchar wrote: No idea. You may just make separate partition for swapping and it will work. Good if you have swap just for sure. Well, the problem is that I wanted to have a bare-metal ZFS system without any FreeBSD slices or partitions. If your

Re: Swap on ZFS - still a bad idea?

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 01:36:37 pm Wojciech Puchar wrote: No idea. You may just make separate partition for swapping and it will work. Good if you have swap just for sure. Well, the problem is that I wanted to have a bare-metal ZFS system without any FreeBSD slices or partitions. slices

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere? VMS is called OpenVMS today, and owned by HP, if I remember correctly - I didn't check, sorry.ö Is it true OSS? No. I mentioned VMS as an example that even closed source can be of

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:08:50 +0200 (CEST), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere? Is it true OSS? No. it's just product name, and is closed source. Yes. They changed the name when IMHO it started to provide some api that allow porting

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere? There is an open source clone in the works: http://www.freevms.net/ No idea of the state it is in. The OZONE OS

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
There is an open source clone in the works: http://www.freevms.net/ No idea of the state it is in. basically doesn't work. The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts. downloading ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-06-03 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Wojciech Puchar on 06/03/09 15:15 I'm literally rolling on the floor laughing at your hypocritical observation here. The whole reason this tangled mess of threads even exists is because you were aggressive in your own response to the potential donor. That's all I have to say. The

An adage for gmirror users

2009-06-03 Thread Reid Linnemann
I was recently updating my 7-STABLE system from a 7.1-PRERELEASE era tree, and after having quite an unexpected headache doing so I have a few words of wisdom. When updating FreeBSD, treat it like a car and ALWAYS CHECK YOUR MIRRORS! My mirror gm0 consists of two SATA disks, ad4 and ad6. Now, I

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-06-03 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Wojciech Puchar on 06/02/09 18:01 Some people may want both, but well you can't have everything. It's not possible to everyone will agree with everyone on mailing list, and with every potential new user. I know that disagreeing is inevitable. My position is that a pleasant tone

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
donor==real spammer. I don't see why I should accept that order. You have no supporters of your rude and outlandish behavior, and you get worse with each all your opinions criticism. You do not represent FreeBSD, the FreeBSD foundation, or the freebsd-questions mailing list. You can have

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/3 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 09:35:31PM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 13:46:15 -0500, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Isn't there an OpenVMS somewhere? There is an open source clone in the works: http://www.freevms.net/ No idea of the

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts. I just LOVE the webpage. The kind of one I'd make in my spare time... i have no VMS knowledge so for now i just booted it on qemu and on computer directly. loads quickly, i logged in and for now don't know any more ;)

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:50:24 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts. I just LOVE the webpage. The kind of one I'd make in my spare time... Why? Because it's so L33T? :-) -- Polytropon From Magdeburg, Germany Happy

Re: An adage for gmirror users

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My mirror gm0 consists of two SATA disks, ad4 and ad6. Now, I have a finicky controller that sporadically spits out READ_DMA and READ_DMA48 or bad cables. timeouts inexplicably. So at some point in time immemorial after installing the last kernel, ad4 suffered a number of READ_DMA48 errors

Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
I'm looking to an existing way to output a date in the format YY/DDD, where YY is the year (last two digits) and DDD is the of the year, starting from 1, preceeded by zeroes if needed, and /DDD, where is the year with four digits, such as 2009-01-01 would be 09/001, 2009-02-01 would be

nfs / showmount using wrong IP - nfs weirdness

2009-06-03 Thread Peter
Setting up a test lab and ran into a weird NFS mounting problem: [7.2-STABLE FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Tue Jun 2 12:02:57 MDT 2009] denver:#ifconfig fxp0|grep inet inet 172.20.6.15 netmask 0xff00 broadcast 172.20.6.255 inet 116.123.45.215 netmask 0xff00 broadcast

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 04:03:14 pm Polytropon wrote: I'm looking to an existing way to output a date in the format YY/DDD, where YY is the year (last two digits) and DDD is the of the year, starting from 1, preceeded by zeroes if needed, and /DDD, where is the year with four

RE: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Gary Gatten
-Original Message- From: Polytropon [mailto:free...@edvax.de] Sent: Wednesday, June 03, 2009 3:56 PM To: utis...@gmail.com Cc: Chris Rees; Roland Smith; Gary Gatten; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Open_Source On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:50:24 +0100, Chris Rees

Re: Open_Source

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Rees
2009/6/3 Polytropon free...@edvax.de: On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 21:50:24 +0100, Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: The OZONE OS [http://www.o3one.org/] uses a lot of VMS concepts. I just LOVE the webpage. The kind of one I'd make in my spare time... Why? Because it's so L33T? :-) Yeah,

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
as 2009-01-01 would be 09/001, 2009-02-01 would be 2009/032. I've read man date and man strftime, and it didn't look like this is already built in. What am I missing? If it's not invented yet, I'll do this on my own, but maybe I don't need to re-invent the wheel. :-) #include stdio.h

Re: An adage for gmirror users

2009-06-03 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by Wojciech Puchar on 06/03/09 15:58 My mirror gm0 consists of two SATA disks, ad4 and ad6. Now, I have a finicky controller that sporadically spits out READ_DMA and READ_DMA48 or bad cables. I'll have to try different cables sometime, you may very well be correct. timeouts

Re: An adage for gmirror users

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
or bad cables. I'll have to try different cables sometime, you may very well be correct. i had such problems many times. it always was cables or disk drive. Disk drive - check with smartmontools from ports. i simply have in crontab a script running once per hour: #!/bin/sh /sbin/gmirror

Re: An adage for gmirror users

2009-06-03 Thread Chris Cowart
Reid Linnemann wrote: Written by Wojciech Puchar on 06/03/09 15:58 i simply have in crontab a script running once per hour: #!/bin/sh /sbin/gmirror status|grep -q DEGRADED \\ mail -s gmirror failure myphonenum...@mygsmoperator.pl /dev/null Surely you jest! You presume that I have

Stale lockfile

2009-06-03 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Can someone tell me what this file exactly is for? Got the message 'Stale lock file found. Removed' running 'portupgrade -a'. thanks, Jos Chrispijn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 16:07:11 -0500, Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com wrote: Like this? $ date +'%y/%j' 09/154 $ date +'%Y/%j' 2009/154 Exactly. After re-reading man strftime, I really found it mentioned there: %jis replaced by the day of the year as a decimal number (001-366).

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 03 June 2009 04:52:19 pm Polytropon wrote: Exactly. After re-reading man strftime, I really found it mentioned there: %jis replaced by the day of the year as a decimal number (001-366). Would be nice to have this in man date, too. :-) Well, I see the point of

Re: Stale lockfile

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Can someone tell me what this file exactly is for? Got the message 'Stale lock file found. Removed' running 'portupgrade -a'. that you use portupgrade -a before and it was stopped by some way and did not removed it's lock file. Now it found a lock file, but no longer process that it referenced

Re: ethernet card not working

2009-06-03 Thread David Collins
On 03/06/2009, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: unplug either end and plug it into my ibook (OS X) the status changes to active and I can ping the other computer. From this I can see that both both freebsd computers have working ethernet cards and the cable works also,

Re: ethernet card not working

2009-06-03 Thread Gary Gatten
Again, cross-over cable! - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed Jun 03 17:25:17 2009 Subject: Re: ethernet card not working On 03/06/2009, Wojciech Puchar

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-03 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 3 Jun 2009 17:00:45 -0500, Kirk Strauser k...@strauser.com wrote: Well, I see the point of documenting it in one canonical location, and pointing everything else at that location (instead of having to maintain every related man page every time it's updated). I really shoud have

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
PS. I love FreeBSD for its excellent documentation. Can't tell something similar about Linux, sadly. --- This manual is no longer maintained. It may contain wrong informations. Use textinfo or even better out webpage --- ___

Re: ethernet card not working

2009-06-03 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The cable works find and so does the network card. I have it plugged is it crossover cable for sure? into my ibook and am sshing across it - everything works fine and as it should when using freebsd to osx, just can't do the same from some cards MAY work without crossing over pairs -

Re: Date representation as YY/DDD or YYYY/DDD

2009-06-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
Ignore him please. Sent from my iPod -- Kirk On Jun 3, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: PS. I love FreeBSD for its excellent documentation. Can't tell something similar about Linux, sadly. --- This manual is no longer maintained. It may

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