Re: What is the meaning of this warn?

2010-07-26 Thread Julien Cigar
On 07/26/2010 07:48, Jason wrote: HI,ALL: Hello, My freebsd server offer service to thousands of clients. I found lots of warning in the /var/log/message like this :Approaching the limit on PV entries, consider increasing either the vm.pmap.shpgperproc or the vm.pmap.pv_entry_max tunable

Re: I donot like using mergemaster ?

2010-07-26 Thread Mike Clarke
On Monday 26 July 2010, zaxis wrote: I want to upgrade my freebsd 8.0 to 8.1. I have read all the steps about upgrading freebsd. I feel mergemaster is difficult to use e.g. which parameters should i use ? (you may wish to use -U or -ai or -Fi) I have the following in /etc/mergemaster.rc

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:20:31AM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:29:37AM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: Without downloading a PDF and reading it . . . do you know what Latin variant is used in that document? No, without download and reading the PDF I wouldn't know

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/24/10 5:59 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Sat, Jul 24, 2010 at 12:05:14AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: I'm reminded that the SATAN network scanner project used to ship a utility with the source code that would patch it to rename it SANTA. I suppose someone could fork a

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/23/10 10:01 PM, Victor Skovorodnikov vic...@mail.ru wrote: I have always been thinking of trying FreeBSD but as a Christian I get deterred by its un-Christian logo. to me, devils, daemons and demons are mythological critters like elves, pixies and bogey men. Have you considered

8.1-RELEASE ia64

2010-07-26 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
Hi I would like to install FreeBSD-8.1 ia64, so I downloaded FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso. When I boot from a burnt CD, the screen keeps black, with the blinkingunderscore, nothing else happend. When I make an USB bootable stick, I've got a message saying that /boot/loader was not found.

Re: 8.1-RELEASE ia64

2010-07-26 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 04:07:27PM +0200, Samuel Martín Moro wrote: Hi I would like to install FreeBSD-8.1 ia64, so I downloaded FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso. When I boot from a burnt CD, the screen keeps black, with the blinkingunderscore, nothing else happend. When I make an USB

Re: 8.1-RELEASE ia64

2010-07-26 Thread Michael Powell
Samuel Martín Moro wrote: Hi I would like to install FreeBSD-8.1 ia64, so I downloaded FreeBSD-8.1-RELEASE-ia64-disc1.iso. When I boot from a burnt CD, the screen keeps black, with the blinkingunderscore, nothing else happend. When I make an USB bootable stick, I've got a message

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Frank Solensky
Original message Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:40:26 -0400 From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org (on behalf of Tom Worster f...@thefsb.org) Subject: Re: BSD logo To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org On 7/23/10 10:01 PM, Victor Skovorodnikov vic...@mail.ru wrote: I have always been

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Andy Balholm
David Brodbeck wrote: It also hasn't escaped my notice that the original poster has never come back to this thread; I suspect we've been trolled, folks. That's possible. It's also possible that, after reading the responses to his inquiry, the original poster decided that his question had

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:39:12 -0700 Andy Balholm a...@balholm.com articulated: David Brodbeck wrote: It also hasn't escaped my notice that the original poster has never come back to this thread; I suspect we've been trolled, folks. That's possible. It's also possible that, after reading

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Reid Linnemann
Suffice it to say, though there are many intuitive comments I think that ultimately we are beating a dead horse with another dead horse while standing on a dead horse. The corpses are starting to reek. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Pegasus Mc Cleaft
By the way . . . while I think a BelssedBSD fork is a ridiculous idea, the name BlessedBSD is *brilliant*. Pronouncing it aloud makes the high-quality pun buried in the name more obvious, for those who didn't quite catch it on the first read-through. i agree. lovely name. the pagan

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 17:39, Andy Balholm a...@balholm.com wrote: The original post looks to me like an expression of sincere concern about BSD's image I'd say, if the logo is hard to cope with for some, then they may be comforted in something of a far more importance than the logo -

OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-07-26 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, For those trying to test OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (no official package yet): This: ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/3.2.1/i386/OOo_3.2.1_FreeBSD81Intel_install_es.tbz From ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/3.2.1/i386/

Re: OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-07-26 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Antonio Vieiro on Monday, 26 July 2010: Hi all, For those trying to test OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (no official package yet): This: ftp://ooopackages.good-day.net/pub/OpenOffice.org/FreeBSD/3.2.1/i386/OOo_3.2.1_FreeBSD81Intel_install_es.tbz From

Re: OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-07-26 Thread Andrew Gould
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 12:33 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: Quoth Antonio Vieiro on Monday, 26 July 2010: Hi all, For those trying to test OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE (no official package yet): This:

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Saturday, July 24, 2010 00:24:46 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: When this is the way someone starts a discussion about wanting to use a new OS, I tend to believe there is no genuine interest in using the OS in question. When this is the way one answers a simple question, I

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 1:24 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.comwrote: When this is the way one answers a simple question, I tend to believe there's no genuine interest in dialog. I am therefore left to wonder who really is the intolerant one. One cannot claim to be tolerant while

Re: Port upgrade problem

2010-07-26 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Petre Bandac pe...@kgb.ro writes: Lowell Gilbert wrote: Petre Bandac pe...@kgb.ro writes: While upgrading port, I have the following problems: - some cfg files are overwritten (authdaemon's authmysqlrc) I can't figure out what port that comes from, so I can't help.

1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-26 Thread John Almberg
One of my clients has a server that hosts big public-access type videos. He started off with a separate 200G drive just for video storage (FreeBSD is on another drive). This video storage drive is mounted as /videos. He's just bought another drive, but now I'm thinking of what to do with

Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-26 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
26.07.2010 21:55, John Almberg wrote: One of my clients has a server that hosts big public-access type videos. He started off with a separate 200G drive just for video storage (FreeBSD is on another drive). This video storage drive is mounted as /videos. He's just bought another drive, but now

Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, John-- On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:55 AM, John Almberg wrote: I know this is probably impossible, but FreeBSD can do so many miraculous things, that I can't help asking... Is it possible to use the second drive to 'expand' the /videos file system? So it would miraculously look like a

Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-26 Thread John Almberg
Volodymyr/Chuck, Is it possible to use the second drive to 'expand' the /videos file system? So it would miraculously look like a single 400G drive? The canonical way of doing this is to either create a RAID-0 concat or stripe volume. Wow, of course... I should have thought of

Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-26 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 2:05 PM, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi, John-- On Jul 26, 2010, at 11:55 AM, John Almberg wrote: I know this is probably impossible, but FreeBSD can do so many miraculous things, that I can't help asking... Is it possible to use the second drive to

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 03:41:27PM -0700, Charlie Kester wrote: On Sun 25 Jul 2010 at 14:42:14 PDT Matthew Seaman wrote: Besides, I suspect that the OP was not in fact genuinely offended but merely trying to stir up trouble Which makes it all the more disappointing that so many of you

Re: 8.1-RELEASE ia64

2010-07-26 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
Oh right.. ok... sorry... I'll try amd64 Thanks for the heads up! Samuel Martín Moro {EPITECH.} tek4 CamTrace S.A.S (+033) 1 41 38 37 60 1 Allée de la Venelle 92150 Suresnes FRANCE Nobody wants to say how this works. Maybe nobody knows ... Xorg.conf(5) On Mon,

Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-26 Thread John Almberg
If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native RAID is better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also: I've just been reading up on RAID in my Absolute FreeBSD book, and it occurs to me that my client has a SCSI RAID drive chassis that he is using

Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-26 Thread Diego Arias
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 3:30 PM, John Almberg jalmb...@identry.com wrote: If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native RAID is better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also: I've just been reading up on RAID in my Absolute FreeBSD book, and it occurs

Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-26 Thread John Almberg
John Almberg wrote: If you have hardware controller with RAID capabilities, using native RAID is better, otherwise look towards gvinum or maybe ccd; see also: I've just been reading up on RAID in my Absolute FreeBSD book, and it occurs to me that my client has a SCSI RAID drive chassis that he

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, July 26, 2010 11:24 am, Paul Schmehl wrote: When this is the way one answers a simple question, I tend to believe there's no genuine interest in dialog. Well, I hate to break it to you, but people who are trying to make a religious point aren't interested in dialog, anyway. In fact,

RE: 1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-26 Thread Gary Gatten
From my experience (YMMV), most RAID controllers will NOT redistribute the existing data/files onto the newly added drives. So, if you have a (3) drive RAID5 your file exists on all three drives, as does the parity data. If you add (2) drives, your original files will not be on the new

problem with ffmpeg port

2010-07-26 Thread John Francis Lee
Hello, I have a VPS account at viaverio and am trying to install ffmpeg on my server. [...@28amen ~]$ uname -a FreeBSD 28amen.org 6.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE #6: Wed Oct 21 09:32:42 MDT 2009 r...@fc:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/VKERN i386 I realize that that is an old version of FreeBSD,

Re: problem with ffmpeg port

2010-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:22 PM, John Francis Lee wrote: ===Verifying install for /usr/local/bin/xz in /usr/ports/archivers/xz === Installing for xz-4.999.9_1 === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if archivers/xz already installed === An older version of archivers/xz

Re: problem with ffmpeg port

2010-07-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:34 PM, John Francis Lee wrote: Thanks [...@28amen /ports/multimedia/ffmpeg]$ cd ../../archivers/xz/ [...@28amen /ports/archivers/xz]$ sudo make deinstall Password: === Deinstalling for archivers/xz [...@28amen /ports/archivers/xz]$ sudo make install === Installing

Re: problem with ffmpeg port

2010-07-26 Thread John Francis Lee
Thanks [...@28amen /ports/multimedia/ffmpeg]$ cd ../../archivers/xz/ [...@28amen /ports/archivers/xz]$ sudo make deinstall Password: === Deinstalling for archivers/xz [...@28amen /ports/archivers/xz]$ sudo make install === Installing for xz-4.999.9_1 === Generating temporary packing list ===

Re: problem with ffmpeg port

2010-07-26 Thread Ryan Coleman
do this: #make install -DFORCE_PKG_REGISTER on that particular port, in this case /archivers/xz. On Jul 26, 2010, at 4:34 PM, John Francis Lee wrote: Thanks [...@28amen /ports/multimedia/ffmpeg]$ cd ../../archivers/xz/ [...@28amen /ports/archivers/xz]$ sudo make deinstall Password:

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:06:17 -0700, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: These people have been taught from a young age that logic is evil and will lead them down the road to hell, so logical arguments are lost on them. Reminds me to the discussion around Russell's teapot... -- Polytropon

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Monday, July 26, 2010 14:06:17 -0700 David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Mon, July 26, 2010 11:24 am, Paul Schmehl wrote: When this is the way one answers a simple question, I tend to believe there's no genuine interest in dialog. Well, I hate to break it to you, but people who are

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread David Brodbeck
On Mon, July 26, 2010 3:53 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, July 26, 2010 14:06:17 -0700 David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Mon, July 26, 2010 11:24 am, Paul Schmehl wrote: When this is the way one answers a simple question, I tend to believe there's no genuine interest in dialog.

Re: OpenOffice 3.2.1 in FreeBSD 8.1

2010-07-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 13:00:46 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: Compiling OpenOffice is not a practical option for many of us due to hardware restraints. I'm glad to see that there's a compiled binary somewhere! Additionally, there's also the problem of the various

Re: problem with ffmpeg port

2010-07-26 Thread John Francis Lee
Thanks... I did that and ffmpeg did install! But... [...@28amen ~/www/robinlea.com]$ ffmpeg -i introduction.wav introduction.mp3 FFmpeg version 0.6, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers built on Jul 26 2010 22:42:00 with gcc 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 configuration:

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Tom Worster
On 7/26/10 12:35 PM, Pegasus Mc Cleaft k...@mthelicon.com wrote: By the way . . . while I think a BelssedBSD fork is a ridiculous idea, the name BlessedBSD is *brilliant*. Pronouncing it aloud makes the high-quality pun buried in the name more obvious, for those who didn't quite catch it on

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 5:46 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 14:06:17 -0700, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: These people have been taught from a young age that logic is evil and will lead them down the road to hell, so logical arguments are lost on them.

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:59 PM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Mon, July 26, 2010 3:53 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, July 26, 2010 14:06:17 -0700 David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Mon, July 26, 2010 11:24 am, Paul Schmehl wrote: When this is the way one answers a simple

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:47 PM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 6:59 PM, David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Mon, July 26, 2010 3:53 pm, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, July 26, 2010 14:06:17 -0700 David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Mon, July 26, 2010

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:22:21 -0500, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: No . . . not you . . . Polytropon! The end of the world must be coming (Revelations-1.0). Do *NOT* tempt me. Okay, you did. And this is what will happen: It turns this thread into a bottomless pit of nonsense, but well,

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 08:39:12AM -0700, Andy Balholm wrote: It's also possible that, after reading the responses to his inquiry, the original poster decided that his question had been adequately answered, his concerns were justified, and he should use a different operating system.

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Glenn Sieb
On 7/26/10 8:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: ,ggg, nd spotteth twice they the system before dP8I the fifth version, and so, the Programmers dP 88 went Forth to RAM Gilead in Kernel Bilgemath, dP88 by Shell Ethra Joygalion, to the house of

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 01:24:21PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Saturday, July 24, 2010 00:24:46 -0600 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: When this is the way someone starts a discussion about wanting to use a new OS, I tend to believe there is no genuine interest in using the OS in

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 05:53:30PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Monday, July 26, 2010 14:06:17 -0700 David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Mon, July 26, 2010 11:24 am, Paul Schmehl wrote: When this is the way one answers a simple question, I tend to believe there's no genuine interest

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 7/26/10, Glenn Sieb ges+li...@wingfoot.org wrote: On 7/26/10 8:01 PM, Polytropon wrote: ,ggg, nd spotteth twice they the system before dP8I the fifth version, and so, the Programmers dP 88 went Forth to RAM Gilead in Kernel Bilgemath, dP

Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-26 Thread Rich
From: Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, July 26, 2010 1:41:19 PM Subject: RE: 1 file system, 2 drives? From my experience (YMMV), most RAID controllers will NOT redistribute the

Re: I donot like using mergemaster ?

2010-07-26 Thread zaxis
that's great ! I will use /etc/mergemaster.rc to upgrade my FB 8.0. Mike Clarke-17 wrote: On Monday 26 July 2010, zaxis wrote: I want to upgrade my freebsd 8.0 to 8.1. I have read all the steps about upgrading freebsd. I feel mergemaster is difficult to use e.g. which parameters

Re: problem with ffmpeg port

2010-07-26 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 1:07 AM, John Francis Lee j...@robinlea.com wrote: Thanks... I did that and ffmpeg did install! But... [...@28amen ~/www/robinlea.com]$ ffmpeg -i introduction.wav introduction.mp3 FFmpeg version 0.6, Copyright (c) 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers  built on Jul 26 2010

Re: 1 file system, 2 drives?

2010-07-26 Thread Gary Gatten
Agreed with single user or sequential I/O systems, but with highly concurrent random I/O, more is better. At some point with enough users even sequential I/O becomes random. From: Rich rl...@pacbell.net To: Gary Gatten Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: BSD logo

2010-07-26 Thread Neal Hogan
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:01 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:22:21 -0500, Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: No . . . not you . . . Polytropon! The end of the world must be coming (Revelations-1.0). Do *NOT* tempt me. Okay, you did. And this is what will

apps update from ports

2010-07-26 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, I was wondering about your update strategy. Do you update your apps as soon as a new version is available in the ports ? Or do you follow the if it works, don't touch it strategy ? I'm guessing portupgrade is your preferred way of doing this hence, do you also choose -P or -PP ?