Re: Festival 1.9.6_1 Port Successfully Running on FreeBSD 7.x - 8.x??

2010-08-08 Thread Diego Montalvo
Update... Frustrated by unknown errors in what seemed initially a successful port install and hours searching for fixes decided to pkg_deinstalled festival 1.9.6_1 and all dependencies. After rebooting decided to download the latest version of festival-2.0.95-beta.tar.gz located at

Gnus issue in FreeBSD (was: Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?)

2010-08-08 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Carl Johnson writes: [...] Now if I could just figure out why gnus doesn't work right under emacs I could finish migrating from Linux to FreeBSD. I use same .gnus in both GNU/Linux and FreeBSD and keep the mailboxen on the $HOME of both boxen sync-ed with each other, and works great for me.

RE: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.

2010-08-08 Thread Marwan Sultan
Hi.. For WebMail that has everything you want: www.opebwebmail.org For pop3 : qpopper For Spam: SpamAssassin Default sendmail is good. all the above is available from ports, I would recommend a manual install for openwebmail instead of ports so you can follow and know how things

Re: Good Terminal for X?

2010-08-08 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Sat, Aug 07, 2010 at 06:41:11PM -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 04:12:47PM -0400, Thomas Dickey wrote: On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 11:26:10AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: Try x11/rxvt-unicode. It doesn't require Gnome nor KDE libraries, and it does handle unicode

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:33:58 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon, So if I delete the file /etc/rc.local and make a file ~/.login, make it executable (chmod +x ~/.login), and add the line [ -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx in that file and I will have the

Re: forwarding ssh

2010-08-08 Thread David Banning
Thanks for that Steven. Connecting this way is only a deviation from the usually connection we use. I have several users you have X-win32 configured on their laptops on the road. I was hoping to make this change invisible to each existing user and their setup since we will be going back to

FreeBSD on the RouterBoard 450G

2010-08-08 Thread Jozsi Vadkan
Did anyone manage to install, and use/test FreeBSD on the RouterBoard 450G? Or does anyone has a howto for it, how to do it? Thank you in advance. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system under FreeBSD-8.1 (now running as a virtual machine under

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/08/2010 12:43:48, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system under FreeBSD-8.1

Re: virtualbox

2010-08-08 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 7 Aug 2010, Chip Camden wrote: When running Xorg under VirtualBox, I had to add the following to xorg.conf to get the keyboard and mouse to respond: Section ServerFlags Option AutoAddDevices off EndSection As with a physical machine, that is only needed to disable hal input

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread krad
On 8 August 2010 13:27, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: On 08/08/2010 12:43:48, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
On Sunday 08 of August 2010 14:43:48 Dick Hoogendijk wrote: Years back I ran FreeBSD, so I have some experience. The last couple of years I ran Solaris, followed by Opensolaris. I am very satisfied. However, considering the troubles after Oracle took over I have rebuild my server system

Re: FreeBSD on the RouterBoard 450G

2010-08-08 Thread Outback Dingo
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mips/2010-June/000890.html appears doable google FreeBSD on the RouterBoard 450G On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:35 AM, Jozsi Vadkan jozsi.avad...@gmail.comwrote: Did anyone manage to install, and use/test FreeBSD on the RouterBoard 450G? Or does anyone

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sat, 7 Aug 2010 19:33:58 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon, So if I delete the file /etc/rc.local and make a file ~/.login, make it executable (chmod +x ~/.login), and add the line [ -f /tmp/.X0-lock ]

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:12:51 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize, but the change to put the code: [! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx Oh good, added the missing !in the condition. Maybe I should have written the code more clearly in the first place: if

File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Kiswono Prayogo
Is there any justification for this benchmark? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=zfs_ext4_btrfsnum=2 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=zfs_ext4_btrfsnum=2 Regards, GB ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 09:12:51 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: I apologize, but the change to put the code: [! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx Oh good, added the missing !in the condition. Maybe I should have written the

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:11:23 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon, I have it almost working. The pam errors are not there anymore, but the machine stays at the Password: prompt. That's strange. The user praxis in my working example has a password set, and the

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. Of course, if your system has particularly demanding IO patterns, then you may have to tweak some loader.conf or

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
Polytropon, On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:11:23 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Polytropon, I have it almost working. The pam errors are not there anymore, but the machine stays at the Password: prompt. That's strange. The

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. One other thing comes to mind. I want a very robus, fast rockl solid *server* It will be a file- email and

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:33:30 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: This is it I guess. I chose bash shell and the default schell is the csh. There is a file called .login in my home directory /home/olivares/.login which has: $ $FreeBSD: src/share/skel/dot.login,v

RE: Anti virus, anti spam step guide.

2010-08-08 Thread Marwan Sultan
Its www.openwebmail.org NOT opewebmail - typo :) If you need any help setting things up for your non-profit organization, let me know. Hi.. For WebMail that has everything you want: www.opebwebmail.org For pop3 : qpopper For Spam: SpamAssassin Default sendmail is

RE: SoundBlaster Problem with 8.1R (NO ONE ?)

2010-08-08 Thread Marwan Sultan
No one ? Hello list, A strange sound problem with FreeBSD 8.1R sound card is : Creative Sound Blaster, Audigy When pciconf output is follow no...@pci0:5:4:0: class=0x040100 card=0x100a1102 chip=0x00071102 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Creative Technology

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak) which will work fine for most purposes. One other thing comes to mind. I want

Re: virtualbox

2010-08-08 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Adam Vande More on Sunday, 08 August 2010: On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:07 PM, Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.comwrote: Just to follow up, as part of my Bugathon participation I created a VM with 8.1-RELEASE as a guest for testing. The i386 version is running like a champ. I

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
Polytropon, Yes. According to man bash, section INVOCATION, mentiones other file names: Bash reads and executes ~/.bash_profile, ~/.bash_login, and ~/.profile (in that order), so you can add the line [ ! -f /tmp/.X0-lock ] startx (short form is completely okay and valid) at the end of

Re: Gnus issue in FreeBSD (was: Re: IPv6 rtadv on FreeBSD 8.1?)

2010-08-08 Thread Carl Johnson
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: Carl Johnson writes: [...] Now if I could just figure out why gnus doesn't work right under emacs I could finish migrating from Linux to FreeBSD. I use same .gnus in both GNU/Linux and FreeBSD and keep the mailboxen on the $HOME of both boxen

Re: zfs question

2010-08-08 Thread krad
On 8 August 2010 16:51, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: On 8-8-2010 14:27, Matthew Seaman wrote: Yes. It works very well. On amd64 you'll get a pretty reasonable setup out of the box (so to speak)

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Bill Moran
On 8/8/10 10:03:59 AM, Kiswono Prayogo wrote: Is there any justification for this benchmark? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=zfs_ext4_btrfsnum=2 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=zfs_ext4_btrfsnum=2 Kind of hard to do much with that benchmark First off: *

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:13:46 -0400 Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.com wrote: To someone technical who might be looking to investigate the results with an eye toward fixing them, it's useless. Anyone can download the Phoronix Test Suite though, so it should be fairly easy to check if the

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:14:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: It does not work. When I try to login I see: -bash: [ !: command not found I switch it to if statement suggested before for .login, but it returns same error. Very strange; I've checked that in bash's

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Bill Moran wmo...@potentialtech.comwrote: On 8/8/10 10:03:59 AM, Kiswono Prayogo wrote: Is there any justification for this benchmark? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=zfs_ext4_btrfsnum=2

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi, I heard that Linux filesystems were not reliable because of some bad way of doing caching or something like that. For a study on Linux FS reliability see [1] by Toshiba guys. It seems Linux was upset on this about one year ago [2]. Quoting: Torvalds, for one, didn't seem too excited

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:14:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: It does not work. When I try to login I see: -bash: [ !: command not found I switch it to if statement suggested before for .login, but it returns same error.

Connection Bandwidth Metering?

2010-08-08 Thread Chris Telting
I have my own Virtual Private Server (VPS) and was wondering what is the most straightforward to meter my own connection? I would like to email notices to myself of excessive bandwidth usage as well as take steps that limit a DOS attack or Slashdot effect on the webserver. I would also like

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 8/8/10, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 11:14:12 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: It does not work. When I try to login I see: -bash: [ !: command not found I switch it to if

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:02:48 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Have changed it, now when I start machine I am logged in as root grullahighschool# I wonder what I did So that's REALLY strange... /etc/gettytab ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:10:01 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Update: I modified the top line to contain : ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure and at the very end added one with ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty autologin cons25 on secure and sadlyI get

Re: Connection Bandwidth Metering?

2010-08-08 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 08/08/2010 19:04:18, Chris Telting wrote: I have my own Virtual Private Server (VPS) and was wondering what is the most straightforward to meter my own connection? It depends on exactly what type of VPS you have. If it's a Xen domU host, or running under VMWare or VirtualBox, then it should

Re: Gnus issue in FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Carl Johnson writes: [...] How do you sync the mailboxes together? That sounds like something that could be useful for my configuration. Actually I am trying to move my old mail from Linux to FreeBSD, but syncing might be an easier way to handle moving it. I use following sh script to

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-08-08 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Carl Johnson writes: Anonymous swel...@gmail.com writes: Carl Johnson ca...@peak.org writes: I am experimenting with 8.1 in VirtualBox, but I discovered that I can't get gnus to work. I just brought over my configuration from a working 7.3 system, but on 8.1 it won't read the mail from

Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd

2010-08-08 Thread Oliver Fromme
Paul eb30...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks Oliver I can just get the i386 vmware version and should install and run. Last question is there a x86_64 bit Linux module? No, unfortunately x86_64 linux binaries are not supported. Is one I'm development? I'm afraid I don't know. I suggest you

Re: File System Performance on FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Mihai Donțu
On Sunday 08 August 2010 20:55:40 Antonio Vieiro wrote: I don't mind if a filesystem is very fast: I want it to be reliable first. I wonder if that Phoronix test suite checks for reliability first or not. https://ext4.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Ext4_Howto#Barriers_on_by_default Since it has

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Antonio Olivares
On 8/8/10, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 13:10:01 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: Update: I modified the top line to contain : ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty Pc cons25 on secure and at the very end added one with ttyv0 /usr/libexec/getty

helping

2010-08-08 Thread Kamil Nowacki
installed FreeBSD on VirtualPC but I have a problem with configuring Internet dhpc normally gets the ip address and the address of the router but when I introduce portsnap fetch HQ to download files I do not want to download by failed and when I go back to the configuration of the Internet in

Re: mercurial port broken?

2010-08-08 Thread Sahil Tandon
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 13:51:29 -0700, Chip Camden wrote: Looks the same to me. A message went out on freebsd-ports@ that the port is broken and will be fixed in a couple of days: There is a preliminary patch with which you can experiment until the port is fixed in the tree:

Re: helping

2010-08-08 Thread Michael Powell
Kamil Nowacki wrote: installed FreeBSD on VirtualPC but I have a problem with configuring Internet dhpc normally gets the ip address and the address of the router but when I introduce portsnap fetch HQ to download files I do not want to download by failed and when I go back to the

Re: misc/149335: shell script runs on Linux but not on freebsd

2010-08-08 Thread Paul Lambert
Oliver, I was well on my way of installing VMware-Player for i386 linux on FreeBSD until I encountered these error messages. Aug 8 20:44:09 BRSINC-VM02 kernel: linux: pid 12889 (dd): ioctl fd=0, cmd=0x6d02 ('m',2) is not implemented Aug 8 20:44:09 BRSINC-VM02 kernel: linux: pid 12896 (dd):

Re: Typical Network Performance

2010-08-08 Thread Jason C. Wells
Seems like someone else got their question answered, but I was able to make use of the tips that were provided. win-win. Thanks for the pointers. By process of elimination (swap cables, swap ports, try different host pairs) I was able to discover that a single server on my home LAN was

Re: Gnus issue in FreeBSD

2010-08-08 Thread Carl Johnson
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: Carl Johnson writes: ... I use following sh script to synchronize my mailbox stuff which includes Maildirs, Gnus configuration, procmail configuration, mairix db, etc. ... Thanks, I'll have to think about that. -- Carl Johnson

Re: Emacs gnus in 8.1 not reading email

2010-08-08 Thread Carl Johnson
ash...@freebsd.org (Ashish SHUKLA) writes: Carl Johnson writes: Anonymous swel...@gmail.com writes: ... Try without ~/.newsrc.eld. BTW, what backend do you use for reading mail? nnmaildir? I just tried it, but there was no difference. I use nnml for the backend, but that is the same for

Backing up video DVDs?

2010-08-08 Thread Depo Catcher
I have 100+ physical DVDs that I would copy to disk (for fast easy access and backup purposes). Is there any software in ports that will make a good copy of the dvd? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: ANNOUNCE: Custom 64bit FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE with XFCE packages released

2010-08-08 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 322, Issue 16, Message: 14 On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 17:44:36 +0200 Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Sun, 8 Aug 2010 10:33:30 -0500, Antonio Olivares olivares14...@gmail.com wrote: This is it I guess. I chose bash shell and the default schell is the csh.

Re: Typical Network Performance

2010-08-08 Thread perryh
Jason C. Wells j...@speakeasy.net wrote: By process of elimination (swap cables, swap ports, try different host pairs) I was able to discover that a single server on my home LAN was getting about 1.6% performance compared to other servers getting 94% ... What would be the next step to