Re: First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Cran
Kris Kennaway wrote: Doug Poland wrote: I'd like to report the details but I'm unfamiliar with the process. Should I post here on -questions or on -current mailing list? -stable. I know 7-BETA1 is currently in a region somewhere between -current and -stable but I thought the -current list

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
cpghost wrote: There's a mismatch here: scanf("%d", ...) expects a pointer to int, while &nnote is a pointer to a short. Normally, an int occupies more bytes in memory than a short (typically sizeof(int) == 4 on 32bit platforms, and sizeof(int) == 8 on 64bit platforms; while typically sizeof(sho

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
e the correct size for variables. Your segv is because scanf was trying to put an int where it won't fit. You will get the same result if you go off the end of an array. -Derek It's well worth increasing the number of warnings enabled when writing C code, to catch any

Re: Rebuilding world

2007-10-21 Thread Bruce Cran
you want to be running 8-CURRENT? It's very very new and will probably break in many ways in the coming months. You almost certainly want to be running 7-BETA1 (from the RELENG_7 branch) which is current at BETA1 stage - HEAD recently changed from 7-CURRENT to bec

Re: mounting a uif dvd image

2007-10-20 Thread Bruce Cran
Bruce Cran wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have a uif dvd image that I want to mount how do I do this (or convert to ISO). You can do this by using mdconfig and mount_udf (which is called by 'mount'). First, create a md device: mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /path/to/dvd_image

Re: mounting a uif dvd image

2007-10-20 Thread Bruce Cran
mdX device, which you can then mount with: mount -t udf /dev/mdX /path/to/mount/dir -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: msttf?

2007-10-20 Thread Bruce Cran
User Roberth wrote: Is /usr/ports/chinese/msttf the right port of microsofts truetype fonts? It seems the msttf package was renamed some time ago - I believe the port you should install is /usr/ports/x11-fonts/webfonts -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questio

Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification.

2007-10-18 Thread Bruce Cran
Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: I recently noticed that Apple's new OS, Leopard, is Unix certified. "UNIX Certified" what the [EMAIL PROTECTED]@ does that mean as far I know no one is in a position to make such a statement except maybe the current owner of the Unix t

Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.

2007-10-17 Thread Bruce Cran
ry running traceroute to check for routing problems to see where the problem is. -- Bruce Cran While his reply may not have been the most cordial that I have seen, it was nevertheless quite on point. I have used Vista and IE7 to connect to FBSD without incident. It therefore becomes evident that t

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
Aryeh Friedman wrote: On 10/11/07, Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aryeh Friedman wrote: Even though I know this is asking for it I want to test the new nVidia driver on amd64 and the only issue with a hand compile (from nVidia's tar not the ports one) is src/nv-kernel.o is branded elf

Re: hard drive testing...

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
Gary Kline wrote: Last question for today. Well, hopefullly. Is bonnie++ the only meeans of testing a hard drive? I thought thre was something you had to put on a floppy to be able to test more thoroughly. This had been "awhile ago"... maybe ~5 years.

Re: zero copy tcp send

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i found sendfile(2) doing this. but the question - does normal write(2) doing this when sending from user process memory, not file? does memory have to be aligned special way,like to page boundary? Yes - see zero_copy(9) -- Bruce _

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread Bruce Cran
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec ntpdate is deprecated, you should use "ntpd -q" instead if you want ntpd to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8): Note: The

Re: Hard drive RPM

2007-09-21 Thread Bruce Cran
is extra space isn't displayed in the "Avail" column of df, so when the disk is really full (i.e the root user has filled the disk) it will show negative values. The amount of space reserved can be changed using tunefs(8). -- Bruce Cran ___ fr

Re: nvidia-driver rebooting machine on X startup

2007-09-11 Thread Bruce Cran
m? I think there's more going on however, since the driver doesn't seem to know about my card during bootup (it shows ) though it clearly does find it when starting Xorg. Going back to the nvidia-driver-96xx port appears to fix the problems, and that driver does know what nVidia car

Version of top included in FreeBSD

2007-09-04 Thread Bruce Cran
ge in a newer version, or will improvements continue to be made locally? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

ftpd and filenames with curly brackets

2007-05-29 Thread Bruce Cran
nd: TYPE I <--- 200 Type set to I. command: SIZE guid_{1234567890}_file.txt <-- 550 guid_1234567890_file.txt: No such file or directory. Is there a way to enable it to deal with such filenames? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org m

Re: dmesg showing wrong frequency (IBM T30)

2003-07-18 Thread Bruce Cran
o 1.2GHz on bootup, from its full 2.0GHz. Nothing the OS can do will change it. Enabling SpeedStep means that FreeBSD sees the full 2.0GHz. I've also heard about someone whose Dell had a broken BIOS, which meant that the CPU could never run at full speed, but was always running at 60%.

Re: KDE process is unkillable

2003-07-15 Thread Bruce Cran
s-mounted drives when the network dies - FreeBSD just sits there forever trying to read the file, and the system refuses to shutdown. -- Bruce Cran > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesda

Multiple interfaces with same ip address

2003-07-12 Thread Bruce Cran
seem to work, but I got a similar message when running the zebra routing daemon, which proved fatal. I'd welcome any hints or advice people might have about how I should be configuring the interfaces and routing. -- Bruce Cran ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ma

Re: crashing fresbsd 5.1-current?

2003-07-02 Thread Bruce Cran
n panic' for the kernel-level syscall. -- Bruce Cran ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Mount command...again

2003-06-09 Thread Bruce Cran
ntpoint where uid and gid is the user/group whom you want the files to be accessible by. This works on my -current system. -- Bruce Cran ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: paths - a newbie question

2003-04-05 Thread Bruce Cran
and is really meant for FreeBSD > specific things (hence the name). Sometimes we do hand hold in that document, > but there has to be a limit. > > As I said, please don't take offence. > It's already in the documentation for FreeBSD - try looking in the bo

Re: sendmail timeout

2003-03-27 Thread Bruce Cran
id wrong? You need to put it in freebsd.mc or a customised version of that, then run 'make freebsd.cf' or whatever you called the custom copy, but with a .cf instead of .mc. Then, copy the .cf file to sendmail.cf and restart sendmail by running 'killall -HUP sendmail'. Bruce C

Re: BT878(Prolink PV-BT878P+4E)

2003-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
t tv cards in FreeBSD? Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Blackholes?

2003-03-02 Thread Bruce Cran
A value of 1 makes it drop SYN packets only, a value of 2 makes it drop whole segments without sending an RST. Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: where is gated?

2003-02-26 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:11:06PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 08:07:24PM +0000, Bruce Cran wrote: > > I've just setup a network, and have been thinking about configuring the > > routing. I've seen various references to gated in the document

where is gated?

2003-02-26 Thread Bruce Cran
re doesn't appear to be any corresponding source code or binary. There also doesn't appear to be a port for gated - has it been removed from FreeBSD, or am I just missing something? Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Hard error??

2003-02-14 Thread Bruce Cran
ll FreeBSD - I mananged to get the BIOS and Windows to recognise it long enough to run IBM's smartdefender program. It told me the drive was basically dead. Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: Hard error??

2003-02-14 Thread Bruce Cran
ailure, but I did indeed have DMA66 and DMA33 drives on the same channel, and thought it a bit suspicious that the drive died at the instant I tried to install FreeBSD. Bruce Cran To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message

Re: NVidia vs FreeBSD 5.0

2003-02-14 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, Feb 14, 2003 at 12:22:25PM +0100, Antoine Jacoutot wrote: > On Friday 14 February 2003 11:45, Valentin Al. Sitnick wrote: > > I have problem with installation FreeBSD 5.0 to my PC because I have > > NVidia MX440 SE-T videocard. The original drivers from NVidia.com cannot > > be installed fo

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