Re: Clear and FBSD

2010-08-01 Thread Christer Solskogen
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 4:49 AM, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Does Clear: 1) Work with FreeBSD --- you just plug it in. No reason to plug in. It's already there. (try 'man clear') -- chs, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Question on Swapping

2010-08-01 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never above .5 and memory usually shows over half free. I have never seen it even close to the limit (including buffers). Basically these are lightly used

Re: Installing 8.1-RELEASE from the memstick

2010-08-01 Thread Thomas Mueller
When installing from the 8.1-RELEASE memstick, what is the correct selection for Installation Media? I'm not finding any mention of memstick in the Handbook. I went to the handbook online, and in Section 2.8, Figure 2.27. Choose Installation Media Option 9 USB is Install from a USB Drive.

Re: Installing 8.1-RELEASE from the memstick

2010-08-01 Thread Samuel Martín Moro
I installed my 8.1 using an usb stick and the disc1.iso image**. When I had to choose insallation media source, I couldn't choose USB drive nor CD (media not found or so). AFAIK, it was broken on 7.2, but the good news is that FTP install seems to work pretty well. **: fdisk on your stick,

Re: Question on Swapping

2010-08-01 Thread RW
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:12:27 -0700 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never above .5 and memory usually shows over half free. I have never seen it even close to

Setting Debug flag in /etc/make.conf

2010-08-01 Thread Jerry
I have been having problems with several different programs lately. Would there be any serious drawback to simply setting: WITH_DEBUG= in the /etc/make.conf file to force everything I build/rebuild to be built with debug symbols? I am assuming that I can simply place that flag in the make.conf

Re: Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror

2010-08-01 Thread krad
On 1 August 2010 05:10, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: have a play with the latest pc-bsd disk if you are having issues. It will install a native freebsd, and supports gmirror and gjournal. You can do it via a script type install or GUI. I'm not to the

Re: Intel PCI-E 4965AGN wireless iwn(4) isn't detected on Compaq 6715s laptop - USB bus?

2010-08-01 Thread Roland Smith
On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:23:49AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: Hi I've HP Compaq 6715s laptop. I'm trying to get wireless working. The laptop has Intel 4965 4965AGN wireless WiFi PCI-E card 802.11N AGN which is supported by iwn(4). I compiled iwn support into the kernel as suggested

help for elf_load_section: truncated ELF file

2010-08-01 Thread 赵建凯
Deal All: When I am compiling the kernel of FreeBSD-8.1RC2, I meet a problem. In detail: stage 2.3: build tools -- cd /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL; MAKESRCPATH=/usr/src/sys/dev/aic7xxx/aicasm make SSP_CFLAGS= -DNO_CPU_CFLAGS

Is VTC dead?

2010-08-01 Thread Chris Telting
Googling around I discovered VTC http://wiki.freebsd.org/dev/vtc%284%29 and it looks interesting. A graphical syscons terminal. I'm surprised there isn't more interest. Is the group that worked on this concept dead? ___

TEKEN_UTF8 TEKEN_XTERM

2010-08-01 Thread Chris Telting
Just wondering if anyone else has played with this? I compiled it into the kernel but the terms are still cons25. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Installing 8.1-RELEASE from the memstick

2010-08-01 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 1 Aug 2010, Samuel Mart?n Moro wrote: I installed my 8.1 using an usb stick and the disc1.iso image**. When I had to choose insallation media source, I couldn't choose USB drive nor CD (media not found or so). USB drive would probably mean a USB drive that's not the boot drive, maybe

Re: sudo -K/-k ineffective

2010-08-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
me gurpreet...@gmail.com writes: Hi, Upon doing sudo some-command as a normal user (non-root), sudo asks for password only once, subsequent invocations of sudo doesn't ask for password - even though I do sudo -k or sudo -K in between. Although sudo starts asking for password after the time

Re: sudo -K/-k ineffective

2010-08-01 Thread Michael Grünewald
Hi, Lowell Gilbert wrote: megurpreet...@gmail.com writes: Upon doing sudosome-command as a normal user (non-root), sudo asks for password only once, subsequent invocations of sudo doesn't ask for password - even though I do sudo -k or sudo -K in between. Although sudo starts asking for

Re: sudo -K/-k ineffective

2010-08-01 Thread Gurpreet Singh
I don't see anything suspicious in the timestamp directory: foo% sudo ls -l /var/run/sudo/ total 12 drwx-- 2 root wheel 512 Aug 2 01:06 gurpreet drwx-- 2 root wheel 512 Aug 2 00:37 other drwx-- 2 root wheel 512 Aug 2 00:37 third foo% sudo ls -l /var/run/sudo/gurpreet

Re: Question on Swapping

2010-08-01 Thread Doug Hardie
On 1 August 2010, at 03:42, RW wrote: On Sun, 1 Aug 2010 01:12:27 -0700 Doug Hardie bc...@lafn.org wrote: I have a question about what I am seeing on several servers. These are 4 core machines with more than the needed memory. Load is never above .5 and memory usually shows over half

make installworld fails

2010-08-01 Thread Caleb Stein
I am trying to update my FreeBSD 8.0 to FreeBSD 8.1. Here is the order I ran the commands in (all as root): cd /usr/src make buildworld make buildkernel shutdown now make installkernel shutdown -r now adjkerntz -i mount -a -t ufs mergemaster -p cd /usr/src make installworld mergemaster reboot

Typical Network Performance

2010-08-01 Thread Jason C. Wells
I have a 100 mbps (12,207 KiB/s) home LAN in full-duplex. A 1 MiB file transfers at 146.7 KiB/s via wput. The same file transfers at 91.34 KiB/s via samba. That's less than 1% of available transfer rate. Seems like my transfers are slow. I do better than that when installing via the

Re: Typical Network Performance

2010-08-01 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 1, 2010, at 2:18 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote: I have a 100 mbps (12,207 KiB/s) home LAN in full-duplex. A 1 MiB file transfers at 146.7 KiB/s via wput. The same file transfers at 91.34 KiB/s via samba. That's less than 1% of available transfer rate. Seems like my transfers are

Re: make installworld fails

2010-08-01 Thread Gardner Bell
--- On Sun, 8/1/10, Caleb Stein caleb.st...@me.com wrote: From: Caleb Stein caleb.st...@me.com Subject: make installworld fails To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sunday, August 1, 2010, 9:43 PM I am trying to update my FreeBSD 8.0 to FreeBSD 8.1.  Here is

Re: possible NFS lockups

2010-08-01 Thread Rick Macklem
From: Sam Fourman On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 10:29 AM, krad kra...@googlemail.com wrote: I have a production mail system with an nfs backend. Every now and again we see the nfs die on a particular head end. However it doesn't die across all the nodes. This suggests to me there isnt an

Re: Installing 8.1-RELEASE from the memstick

2010-08-01 Thread bdsfbsd
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 05:03:07 -0400, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: When installing from the 8.1-RELEASE memstick, what is the correct selection for Installation Media? I'm not finding any mention of memstick in the Handbook. You want USB (assuming you did put the image on an actual memstick

Re: Typical Network Performance

2010-08-01 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 1, 2010, at 4:18 PM, Jason C. Wells wrote: I have a 100 mbps (12,207 KiB/s) home LAN in full-duplex. A 1 MiB file transfers at 146.7 KiB/s via wput. The same file transfers at 91.34 KiB/s via samba. That's less than 1% of available transfer rate. Seems like my transfers are

Re: Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror

2010-08-01 Thread Aram Hăvărneanu
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:38 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've read the Handbook sections on gmirror and gjournal, and the gjournal-desktop article, and I'm still unclear on how to go about setting up a configuration that uses both. I have GPT disks and do GEOM mirror for / plus GEOM

Re: Setting Debug flag in /etc/make.conf

2010-08-01 Thread Anonymous
(resending, previous mail didn't show up in the list archive) Jerry freebsd.u...@seibercom.net writes: I have been having problems with several different programs lately. Would there be any serious drawback to simply setting: WITH_DEBUG= You'd lose `-O2' compiler-specific optimization. If

mrtg-2.16.2_6,1 does not run with perl-5.12.1_1

2010-08-01 Thread Jon Theil Nielsen
Hi list After upgrading perl according to UPDATING, I cannot use mrtg anymore. The error message is: Bareword P_DETACH not allowed while strict subs in use at /usr/local/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.12.1/MRTG_lib.pm line 1172. Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/bin/mrtg line 89. BEGIN

Re: Installing a system to use both gjournal and gmirror

2010-08-01 Thread perryh
Aram H??v??rneanu ara...@mgk.ro wrote: On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 12:38 PM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I've read the Handbook sections on gmirror and gjournal, and the gjournal-desktop article, and I'm still unclear on how to go about setting up a configuration that uses both. I have GPT

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-08-01 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jul 31, 2010 at 03:55:11PM +0100, Frank Shute wrote: A pitchfork has 2 tines a trident (which is what Beastie carries) has 3. Actually, pitchforks typically have four. Two would be a fauchard or military fork -- a weapon of war. Tridents, meanwhile, are better suited to fishing,

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-08-01 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I'd think there wouldn't be much hay surviving in a lake of fire, though. If you go fishing in this lake of fire, can you use a trident instead of a pitchfork? Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Typical Network Performance

2010-08-01 Thread Corey Smith
On Sun, Aug 1, 2010 at 7:30 PM, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: Gigabit ethernet from a 2.8 GHz P4 to or from MacPro I am only limited by disk data rate. About 60 MB/sec on one end of the disk, more on the other end of the disk. Did you try realtime monitoring your network interface? #

Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?

2010-08-01 Thread Carl Johnson
Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I have running versions of 7.3 and 8.0, so I tried experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I ran into a couple of problems. I have an 8.0 system that is running a IPv6 tunnel to sixxs.net, and it is running rtadvd to act as the gatway for my network. On

Re: BSD logo (a moderate opinion)

2010-08-01 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 2 Aug 2010 10:13:32 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole olivier.nic...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, I'd think there wouldn't be much hay surviving in a lake of fire, though. If you go fishing in this lake of fire, can you use a trident instead of a pitchfork? Sure, but everything you'll

fnd cause panic: page fault

2010-08-01 Thread n dhert
Sometimes my FreeBSD8.0-p4 machine does an automatic reboot after panic: page fault. (Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode) It's at random times. What in general can be the cause of that? Is it always due to hardware memory errors? What else can be a cause, how to find out ? I have

Re: Printing from linux-firefox

2010-08-01 Thread Wayne Sierke
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 15:00 +0930, Malcolm Kay wrote: Having trouble getting flshh to work with native firefox, I decided to try one or other of the linux versions. With linux-firefox-devel-3.5.9 I was able to get flash wworking OK. But the linux version does not find any any printer