Re: Sio won't compile in 8.2

2011-07-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 22, 2011, at 9:45 AM, Lars Eighner wrote: > Since there does not appear to be any likelihood that uart will be fixed, I > figure I will be stuck in 7.4 forever. But what does that mean in the not > too distant future when 7.4 is no longer supported? Is there some way to > prepare for that

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 19, 2011, at 12:15 PM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > I still do not understand which disk to install to, ad4, ad6, or, ar0? My original reply mentioned: "ar0 is the RAID-0 volume." Regards, -- -Chuck ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: >> ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. However, I would advise against using Intel's >> Matrix pseudo-RAID for a boot volume, > > Why? > > I searched and did not find a reason to not use it. Just a few > "recommend against it" without reasons. There'

Fwd: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Umm, please don't inflict autoresponders upon people who answer your questions... Begin forwarded message: > From: tomd...@speakeasy.org > Date: July 19, 2011 11:27:28 AM PDT > To: Chuck Swiger > Subject: Re: Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0 > > I&

Re: Install 8.2-Release AMD64 on Laptop with Raid0

2011-07-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jul 19, 2011, at 11:20 AM, Thomas D. Dean wrote: > sysinstall shows 3 choices for disk drives. ad4(600G), ad6(600G), > ar0(RAID0) > > I want to use RAID0 and use the entire disk, partitioned by 'A'. > > Which disk do I select for installation? ar0 is the RAID-0 volume. However, I woul

Re: Recurring ICMP Bad Checksum Warning

2011-07-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 14, 2011, at 5:18 AM, monarci wrote: > I am currently running a company's FreeBSD web server and I am constantly > receiving the ICMP Bad Checksum warning. You most likely have a NIC with hardware checksum capabilities; tcpdump sees outgoing packets before the hardware generates the chec

Re: amd64 lib path locations

2011-07-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 11, 2011, at 12:23 PM, wayne mitchell wrote: > installing is fine (from package - not port) > starting rosegarden from gui menu - nothing happens > executing rosegarden from CLI returns error: > [ /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: shared object "libQt3Support.so.4" not found, > required by "rosegarden"

Re: Transparent load balancing

2011-07-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 11, 2011, at 9:49 AM, Unga wrote: > I need to implement a transparent load balancing daemon in C. > > That is, the daemon accept a TCP connection, get more info from the client, > and forward the communication transparently to another server to handle it. > > How this could be implemented

Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death

2011-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 9, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Manish Jain wrote: > What do I make of it when the system runs flawlessly both on Win XP and > FreeBSD-8.0-amd64 ? That's interesting but inconclusive. Can you run prime95 testing overnight under WinXP without issues? Or memtest86? > BTW, 8.2 does NOT - for reasons

Re: disk spinning continuously + cpu possibly overheating = sudden death

2011-07-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 9, 2011, at 3:53 AM, Manish Jain wrote: > I am running FreeBSD-8.2-amd64 on a Western Digital 320 GD disk and a > quad-core AMD Phenom processor. After booting, the disk keeps > continuously (meaning continuous I/O) and after a couple of hours (on > the console with the X server not ru

Re: error in installation of uwsgi

2011-07-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jul 8, 2011, at 8:23 AM, Zhong Yubin wrote: > Hi, I'm going to setup machine for developing web application in python. > But some errors appear when I install uwsgi using ports. The following is > the first I met: Evidently, this uwsgi software wants a threaded Python. You likely need to reb

Re: Problem with web video

2011-06-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 23, 2011, at 4:51 PM, Carmel wrote: > I have been fighting a losing battle trying to get video to display > with Firefox. I just updated to the latest version 5;however, it still > does not work. This is on a FreeBSD-8.2 system. > > As an example, the following URL does not display the vide

Re: (no subject)

2011-06-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 21, 2011, at 11:04 AM, Lokadamus wrote: > Mon Jun 20 11:41:58 2011 849M /tmp > Mon Jun 20 11:42:01 2011 Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/amrd0s1a 989M 987M -76M 108% / > > When a partition is over 100% its use backup place for defect sektors. A > partition is/ was cre

Re: (email) server connection problem : Help

2011-06-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 20, 2011, at 11:31 AM, Mark Moellering wrote: > 69.41.172.62mail.grissomhigh1981.org > [ ... ] > 69.41.172.180 mail.porthuronhighschool.info > === > > DNS checks out. > I think I am running ssl. I am checking postfix and dovecot. The odd thing > is the ssh. I l

Re: (email) server connection problem : Help

2011-06-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 20, 2011, at 10:05 AM, Mark Moellering wrote: > I cannot log into the server via either ssl for email or ssh on the two > domains that are .org and .info > The connection is refused. Here is an example copied from a console; > > shell$ ssh -l LoginName mail.anadarkohs60.com > The authenti

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 17, 2011, at 10:59 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: >> Sigh. If you'd ever actually filed a copyright registration or >> transfer form, you would discover that one needs to get them notarized. >> (Documenting that a certain document was available and signed at a >> specific date is what a notary publ

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Chad Perrin wrote: >> Where i live no need to register, you get copyright if the stuff >> fulfills certain criteria, originality is one. > > Registration aids enforcement. Of course, there's always the "poor man's > copyright registration" approach, where the moment y

Re: free sco unix

2011-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 16, 2011, at 5:07 PM, Peter Vereshagin wrote: > And does FreeBSD Foundation own its FreeBSD UNIX then? If it does, did it pay > for it? Does it certify its FreeBSD as a UNIX and how much does it pay? The FreeBSD Foundation is a non-profit organization which supports and represents the Fre

Re: OT: Strange memory reading (hardware)

2011-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Robert wrote: > I have tested with all of the sticks installed and with one at a time. > When all of the sticks are installed, BIOS show a total of 2752 MB of > RAM. If any of the sticks are installed alone in any of the four slots, > BIOS then shows 960 MB instead of t

Re: startup postgresql 9.0.3

2011-06-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 16, 2011, at 10:26 AM, Jeff Hamann wrote: > I've installed and tested postgresql just fine on FreeBSD 8.2. I gather this means running the database manually via "postgres -D /usr/local/pgsql/data" works normally? > As instructed in the script, I've moved the file to > /usr/local/etc/rc.d

Re: how do i fsck my server?

2011-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 15, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Gary Kline wrote: > can anybody clue me in on why fsck on my server [yes, of course as root] > seem to refuse to WRITE? Bad sectors on the hard drive are a somewhat common cause of this. > we had a power out locally and i caught my UPS at > the last second. i power

Re: versions of software

2011-06-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 15, 2011, at 8:20 AM, spidey wrote: > Can someone tell me which versions of sendmail and DNS Bind are in the > current Ubuntu 10?? Sure, but you're asking on the wrong mailing list: FreeBSD isn't Ubuntu. [ Reply-to: set appropriately. ] Regards, -- -Chuck __

Re: Extract particular date snapshot from /var/db/portsnap?

2011-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 14, 2011, at 5:09 PM, Peter Vereshagin wrote: > You can't take no for an answer, freebsd-questions! > > How can I extract an 'old' snapshot from portsnap database? > Does it keep them? Does portsnap keep snapshots fetched previously? As far as I can tell, you can't. > Suppose I need the p

Re: Virtualbox on 8.2 64-bit (cont)

2011-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 14, 2011, at 3:40 PM, Rob wrote: > When 8.3 comes out, what do I need to do to update the src tree? This may be > documented in the UPDATING docs, but having never messed with the source tree > I haven't had cause to look. If so just tell me to go read the respective > doc. :) Read the

Re: Thunderbird 3.1.10 Connection Refused

2011-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:28 AM, Unga wrote: > I need to access an IMAP server at mail.server.com:45000. And the server uses > a self-signed certificate. The registered port for IMAPS is 993/tcp. Unless you have very good reasons for running IMAP server on a non-standard port, you should run it on

Re: DHCP Question

2011-06-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 14, 2011, at 11:19 AM, jh...@socket.net wrote: > I am working with a vendor and they are wanting me to send them ip > addresses via option 74 in DHCP (irc-server). After I defined this in my > dhcpd.conf file, the option is still not being sent. However, I am not > receiving a request f

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Polytropon wrote: >> twm doesn't stand for "Trivial Window Manager"-- it stands >> for "Tom's Window Manager" because it was written by Tom >> LaStrange on Sun-3_35 or 3_50 hardware back around X11R1. > > Without any further investigation and research, my > brain seem

Re: Need Help Installing and Configuring Xorg

2011-06-12 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 12, 2011, at 4:40 AM, Bill Tillman wrote: > I have installed and configured Xorg many times on several different > machines. > When it installs it comes with twm (Trivial Window Manager) [ ... ] twm doesn't stand for "Trivial Window Manager"-- it stands for "Tom's Window Manager" because

Re: Long Day's Journey into

2011-06-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 9, 2011, at 3:28 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: > In many cases, it's not even obvious which of the products I find are > suitable for building various types of network switches. Do you know of any > Webpages that might help me rectify my dearth of understanding in this area? You can get an unma

Re: problem with german umlauts and gtk apps (maybe unicode issue)

2011-06-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 8, 2011, at 12:57 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > *however* when i save a file via the gtk save dialog (lets say from within > chromium), the filename only gets displayed correctly in the gtk open dialog. > > saving a file "ÄÖÜäöüß.html" from chromium's gtk dialog returns the following > under

Re: Sorry. Numpty alert! FreeBSD Jails... Help?

2011-06-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jun 7, 2011, at 11:53 AM, Dave wrote: > For whatever reason, I can't get my head round how "Exactly" to create > and use a jail, for a small webserver (Hiawatha) on FreeBSD V8.x Did you start with the Handbook? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/jails.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/hand

Re: I486_CPU or I586_CPU in kernel config

2011-06-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 30, 2011, at 4:53 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Mon, 30 May 2011, Adam Vande More wrote: >> Perhaps this is the one you meant? >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2009-January/190568.html > > That's the one! Thanks! > >> Actually the two threads touch on the same subjec

Re: ARP tables in FreeBSD (vs Linux)

2011-05-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 27, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Rogelio wrote: > It was one of those things where in an effort to quickly fix things, I > split up the collision domain and used a router to handle the ARP. > > Right now, a 7201 router has about 15K ARPs, and the system is much slower. I'm not surprised. Even good s

Re: icons

2011-05-27 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 27, 2011, at 10:42 AM, pwnedomina wrote: > where are located icons of apps such as browsers,etc? pkg_info -L _portname_ will display the pathnames for a package or port such as Firefox, and you can then grep that for .jpg/.gif/.png files as you see fit. Regards, -- -Chuck _

Re: RAM needed for DHCP + router?

2011-05-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 26, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Chris Hill wrote: > I'm looking to build a NAT / DHCP box for a lab network for my company. My > question is, how do I estimate the amount of RAM the machine will need? How many DHCP leases and NAT clients? ISC's DHCPd typically runs a few tens of MB unless you have

Re: ports problem in an old system ver 4.9

2011-05-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 26, 2011, at 3:01 PM, David Banning wrote: > I have an old FreeBSD 4.9 installation that I cannot upgrade. You've also got a FreeBSD installation which the ports tree does not support. > I wanted to install something from the ports, but I am getting > this error on almost every port; > >

Re: Filename containing French characters ?

2011-05-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 24, 2011, at 11:32 AM, Frank Bonnet wrote: > finally one of our developer has written > a php function that transcode all accentuated > characters to the corresponding non accentuated > thanks to her !!! > > but the problem is NOT solved just workarrounded Sure. FreeBSD's default filesyst

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- [ Perry gave a good answer to the last question; I'll try to hit some of the earlier ones. :-) ] On May 19, 2011, at 12:23 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: > Erik N?rgaard wrote: >> Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset >> Intel 82945GSE Express Chipset Graphics/Memory Controller Hub >> Int

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 19, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: >> It indicates that they put faster RAM into the box, but ran it at a speed of >> 533MHz, which is slower than the memory is capable of running. In some >> cases, doing this lets you run the RAM at lower voltage or with tighter >> timing setti

Re: Re[4]: How to update build tools

2011-05-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 18, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: > CS> The compiler toolchain is rebuilt with buildworld/installworld. > CS> Perhaps it would be more useful to see what kind of error you are > CS> experiencing which makes you think that updating the build tools would > help? > > error 2 when

Re: Re[2]: How to update build tools

2011-05-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 18, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: > no, I upgrade from freebsd current 201101 to 201105 > and there was command without buildworld The compiler toolchain is rebuilt with buildworld/installworld. Perhaps it would be more useful to see what kind of error you are experiencing whi

Re: How to update build tools

2011-05-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 18, 2011, at 12:01 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: > I am compile freebsd from source, but get error 2 > some time ago somebody advice me to update build tools or etc. > But I do not remember ( > > please remind me which command to use to update build tools? cd /usr/src ; make buildworld (See

Re: ZFS Deduplication (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE)

2011-05-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 13, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Mike Seda wrote: > Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can leverage > ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server. > > What is the best (most stable) way to get this functionality at the moment? By definition, HEAD i

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2011-05-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 13, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Mike Seda wrote: > If I install FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT, I will be able to upgrade to > FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE (once available) via the freebsd-update utility, right? There isn't a supported RELENG_9 branch, yet. Once it exists, it is likely that you could use freebsd-upda

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 10, 2011, at 3:31 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > One more thing. I am going to need the Windows Client but I don't seem to > find that at the OpenVPN site, only the full install which I assume installs > the server as well as the client. Or am I missing the link to get just the > client instal

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 10, 2011, at 2:50 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: >> OpenVPN's site provides fine documentation: >> >> http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation.html >> >> http://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/miscellaneous/78-static-key-mini-howto.html [ ... ] > I'm working thro

Re: OpenVPN Setup

2011-05-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 10, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Bill Tillman wrote: > I have a FreeBSD-8.2-STABLE server running OpenVPN. What I'm trying to do is > to > be able to access my LAN with my M$ Windows laptop using a M$ compatible > client. > I read the manpage and it basically sets forth examples in which there wil

Re: PROBLEM? Monthly maintance in crontab for Febrary

2011-04-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 19, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: > # Perform daily/weekly/monthly maintenance. > 1 3 * * * rootperiodic daily > 15 4 * * 6 rootperiodic weekly > 30 5 1 * * rootperiodic monthly >

Re: Unable to find an appropriate lock to guard the shared cache. This *should* be essentially impossible

2011-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2011, at 12:18 PM, Steven Friedrich wrote: > I tried searching the archives, but didn't get hits. > > Goggle hits revealed little info. > > Unable to find an appropriate lock to guard the shared cache. This *should* > be essentially impossible Does this thread help: http://forums

Re: FreeBSD VMWare Mac screen resulution and keyboard map

2011-04-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 18, 2011, at 11:35 AM, Sascha Vieweg wrote: >> man syscons | less -p'Back Scrolling' > > ... Says: press the `slock' key (with some PC keyboard description). However, > I have got a MB Pro where no such key is available. Thus, I may repeat my > question: How can I get console scolling wor

Re: Extending pw(8) username limit

2011-04-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 14, 2011, at 2:20 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > I have a special situation where I'd like to do either > first.last_somedomain.com or first.l...@somedomain.com but the former is > rejected due to length and the latter due to the "@" by pw(8). > > How do I extend this from 16 chars to 32 or 64

Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router

2011-04-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:37 AM, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Yes, although a new E2100L is much than $20 more than the refurb'ed 160NL. Hmm, substitute: "isn't much than $20 more"... -C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router

2011-04-08 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Apr 8, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Bryan H. wrote: > Ah, I was unaware that it had been discontinued, perhaps that's the > reason for the (relatively) low cost. ;-) Yes, although a new E2100L is much than $20 more than the refurb'ed 160NL. > As for dd-wrt, I personally find the extra features (l

Re: Linksys-E4200 Wireless N-router

2011-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 7, 2011, at 3:19 PM, Bryan H. wrote: > If you're just looking for a new router, I would highly recommend the > Linksys WRT160NL. I got mine refurbished from Cisco's store[1], and > flashed it with dd-wrt[2] (which was incredibly easy, just search for > the router in dd-wrt's "router databas

Re: 'The X Window System and Virtual Consoles' translation

2011-04-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:26 AM, MR wrote: > I'm willing to translate publication located at > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/x.html#X-AND-WHEEL to > the Belorussian language (my mother tongue). What I'm asking for is your > written permission, so you don't mind after I'll post

Re: graphical representation of `du`

2011-04-06 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 6, 2011, at 11:34 AM, Peter Vereshagin wrote: > Again, why don't you guys just use perl to provide a graphical du? I believe > perl is just present on every freebsd machine where graphical du is needed. Although it is a common addition, Perl isn't part of the FreeBSD base system. Regards,

Re: how to increase stacksize?

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 1:17 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: >> Set kern.maxssiz in /boot/loader.conf >> to a larger value-- also consider >> tweaking kern.dflssiz, > > What does this limit? > > Is it documented anywhere? It appears to be documented in the manpages: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.c

Re: swap_pager: out of swap space, swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Paul Chany wrote: > I follow the link: > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/adding-swap-space.html > > I did create a swapfile, and run again command: '# make install clean'. > Since thet it being running on my old Toshiba laptop that had 64 MB

Re: how to increase stacksize?

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 12:50 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'd like to increase stacksize. How do I do this? Set kern.maxssiz in /boot/loader.conf to a larger value-- also consider tweaking kern.dflssiz, unless you want to use limit/ulimit before invoking the process. I don't believe you can cha

Re: swap_pager: out of swap space, swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed

2011-04-04 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Apr 4, 2011, at 11:56 AM, Paul Chany wrote: > swap_pager: out of swap space > swap_pager_getswapspace(16): failed > .. > c++: Internal error: Killed: 9 (program cc1plus) > .. > .. > *** Error code 1 > > What can I do to solve this problem Your system ran out of VM. Add more RAM, or add more s

Re: Automating mounting of ISO images

2011-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2011, at 2:21 PM, Polytropon wrote: > Prefix it with a test: > > [ -d /mount/office_files/images/${DEST} ] && mkdir... > mount... > > so there will be no error if the script is started for the > second time (and the directories still exist), means: create > them only if not

Re: Automating mounting of ISO images

2011-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 23, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > I am also trying to make the directories right before the attempt to mount > the image (a 'duh' moment just now). > So I'd like to have just the filename, not the full path, made as a folder... Ah, yes-- add "mkdir -p /mount/office_files/images

Re: Automating mounting of ISO images

2011-03-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Mar 23, 2011, at 11:49 AM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Disc images are located in /mount/disc_images/ (all are ISOs) > They need to mount into /mount/office_files/images/FILENAME [without the .iso > extension] > > How can I do this? I've always been given these types of scripts in the past >

Re: Updating OpenSSH

2011-03-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 16, 2011, at 11:24 AM, Carmel wrote: > OK, then does that mean that the latest version will be used in the > still not released 9 version of FreeBSD? Currently, no-- TRUNK has: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/~checkout~/src/crypto/openssh/version.h Revision 1.41: download - view:

Re: can make -j be used for ports?

2011-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- [ ...followups sent to freebsd-ports@ list... ] On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:20 PM, John wrote: > I am no expert on make, so, here goes: > > Can -j options be used for make when building ports? Yes. Ports which support parallel builds will have MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes set in the port Makefile. It

Re: Apple & FreeBSD relationship

2011-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- #include It wouldn't be considered appropriate for Apple employees or contractors (well, outside of the folks working in investor relations, perhaps) to try to persuade someone to invest in a particular company because of which open source projects Apple might be contributing towards. I

Re: HP Pavilion zd8000 Xorg anomaly

2011-03-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 9, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Steven Friedrich wrote: > Anyway, I have somehow LOST my xorg.conf that WORKED. Regrettable. Either take backups of everything you actually care about before you experience data loss-- in which case you don't have a problem, since you can easily recover your data-- o

Re: HAL must die!

2011-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:28 PM, Svein Skogen (Listmail account) wrote: > But he does raise a valid problem (if more than zero users, etc). "We" > (I include fellow FreeBSD users, but also OSX and Linux users) do lack a > decent cross-platform device manager stack, with uniform device name > enumeration

Re: hidden symbol `__dso_handle' in /usr/lib/crtbegin.o is referenced by DSO

2011-03-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Mar 7, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Австин Ким wrote: > I've lately upgraded from FreeBSD 8.2-RC3 to 8.2-RELEASE via freebsd-update > and am now getting the following error when trying to build www/webkit-gtk2 > in Ports (this was pulled in by the GIMP meta-port; the tail output of > make(1) is appended

Re: Upgrading 7.1 to 7.3, use 7.2 as a safe step?

2011-02-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: > For me, time can be spared, but errors should be avoided at all costs. > I have upgraded FreeBSD before, for example 7.0 -> 7.1. I use the > buildworld/buildkernel procedure. > I now have a 7.1 system. Should I upgrade to 7.2 and then to 7.3, or

Re: Cups upgrade failure

2011-02-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 21, 2011, at 8:56 AM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > Can someone give me a heads up on why this portupgrade failed. Here is > the error message I received: > >tor -o rastertoescpx rastertoescpx.o -L. -lcupsdriver \ >-lcupsimage -lcups -pthread -lm -lcrypt >

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:06 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: >> Most computer cases are designed with front-to-back airflow (ie, intake fans >> in the front, exhaust fans and the PSU in the back) and cool more >> effectively with the case on > > Well, in my case, with the "BEFORE" situation, if I had the

Re: CPU heating!

2011-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 17, 2011, at 2:53 PM, Mario Lobo wrote: > Phenom II 955 w/ stock cooler > With the side of the computer case off. [ ...vs... ] > Phenom II 955 w/ a ZALMAN CNPS 10x PERFORMA cooler > With the side of the computer case ON. Um, so you obviously aren't comparing similar circumstances. Most com

Re: Best Laptop to buy for Freebsd Without OS?

2011-02-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hola, Jorge-- On Feb 17, 2011, at 10:43 AM, Jorge Biquez wrote: > I am evaluating to buy a new laptop for using it only with Freebsd. I know in > the website mention some options. Thing is that here the most powerful ones > (I3, I5 I7) are sold ONLY with Windows installed and that increase the v

Re: clamd dying

2011-02-16 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 16, 2011, at 12:40 PM, Paul Macdonald wrote: > Anyone seeing clamd dying sporadically, in my case usually once a day or so..? > > I first noticed this a few versions ago, which was due to the JIT byte code > extension , and as a result i check the daemon every 5 mins and restart as

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Feb 14, 2011, at 3:17 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: > I would be curious to hear stories from people who actually *have* run > into SSD failures related to write limitations. I've heard a lot of > speculation but no actual anecdotes. I'm sure they're out there; but > I also know people are m

Re: script help

2011-02-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 14, 2011, at 2:34 PM, Jack L. Stone wrote: > # find all of the same filenames (copyright.htm) and then replace the year > 2010 with 2011 in each file. Once I have a working script, I should be able > to add it as a cron job to run on the first day of each new year. find . -name copyright.

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > also i noticed that when a processes CPU activity goes up to let's say 10% and > then down again to 0% this doesn't mean that the idle process will jump to > 200% > instantly, but it takes ~ 10 seconds for it to reclaim the CPU activity that > w

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Alexander Best wrote: >> It means (c). Kernel activity, short-lived transient processes, and >> imperfections in sampling data are the other ~13 / 10 % > > thanks. it seems in some cases these imperfections have quite an impact: > > last pid: 48135; load averag

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Alexander Best wrote: > a) my system is 100% idle, since no processes except the idle process takes up > up CPU time or > b) that a or some processes take up 2% CPU time which aren't being shown or > c) that each of my cpu core is only 86.6/89.4% idle? It means (c).

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: > My ntp.conf consists of > > server ntp1.ptb.de prefer > server ntp2.ptb.de > restrict default ignore > restrict 127.0.0.1 > > Surely, I must be missing something. Does anybody have an idea? What does "ntpq -p -c rv" indicate? It wouldn'

Re: Bad hard driver

2011-02-09 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 9, 2011, at 11:15 AM, Daniel Zhelev wrote: > The following warning/error was logged by the smartd daemon: > > Device: /dev/ad7, 3 Offline uncorrectable sectors It means that the drive has detected errors in three sectors, and is attempting to recover them without data loss to spare sector

Re: "https is faster on amd64?"

2011-02-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 6, 2011, at 2:14 AM, kellyremo wrote: > http://devcentral.f5.com/weblogs/macvittie/archive/2011/01/31/dispelling-the-new-ssl-myth.aspx > > according to the "SSL Performance" table it says that the transactions per > second is 2-3 times better using 64bit kernels opposite to 32bit kernels?

Re: Jon Radel (sorry no other way to do this)

2011-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 24, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Graeme Dargie wrote: > Now I know I am going to get hung out to dry on this one, but I am > having a problem with Jon Radel and his encrypted mails to this list. I > cannot open them, I cannot get his address from the mail to talk to him > directly, or get the address

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 24, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Fred wrote: > Ethernet MAC addresses are assigned by the manufacturer of the equipment. > Each unit gets a unique address which generally can't be changed and > shouldn't be changed. The manufacturer buys a block of addresses from the > IEEE. Yes, although folks

Re: how can i use 1)des.h 2)socket in kernel mode

2011-01-23 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 23, 2011, at 4:44 AM, alireza imani wrote: > i have some question about freebsd. > how can i use des.h methods in kernel mode? > and how can i use socket in kernel mode? > > can you give me some source code about this or help me? "man 9 crypto" and "man 9 socket" describe kernel interfaces

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox? (resolved, I think)

2011-01-21 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 20, 2011, at 9:07 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > And menus work in Firefox 3.6. I'll have to actually work with it for a > day tomorrow to see how it holds up, but I've tried a variety of things > and it seems to be playing nicely. Very good. > It looks like the solution was to rebuild the k

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:43 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: >> Doing a "bt" would have been helpful right about there, but I think I've got >> enough info to suggest rebuilding your kernel with the following option: >> >> options P1003_1B_SEMAPHORES > > thanks again, Chuck. > > I can easily get

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Jan 19, 2011, at 7:37 AM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: >> Enter "run", or "c" for continue. If and when Firefox crashes, you >> will be able to gain more useful information > > That does provide a bunch more information. Thank you. [ ... ] > Program received signal SIGSYS, Bad system call.

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 8:29 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > I did this: > $ gdb /usr/local/lib/firefox3/firefox-bin 10388 > > This results in Firefox being locked and non-responsive to the user interface. Enter "run", or "c" for continue. If and when Firefox crashes, you will be able to gain more use

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > $ gdb --exec=firefox3 > This GDB was configured as > "i386-marcel-freebsd"."/usr/local/bin/firefox3": not in executable > format: File format not recognized What does "file /usr/local/bin/firefox3" say? If it's a Linux binary, then you might n

Re: rusage and pthreads

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Mark Terribile wrote: > and continues further down > >ru = &td->td_ru; >ru->ru_ixrss += pgtok(vm->vm_tsize); >ru->ru_idrss += pgtok(vm->vm_dsize); >ru->ru_isrss += pgtok(vm->vm_ssize); > > This looks to me like it's accumulating the dat

Re: rusage and pthreads

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 4:07 PM, Mark Terribile wrote: > I'm trying to figure out the interactions between rusage and pthreads. There largely isn't any-- struct rusage is per-process, not per thread. > Peeking around in the kernel (7.2) I see updates occurring in various places. > kern_clock.c, for

Re: use of menus crashes Firefox?

2011-01-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 18, 2011, at 2:56 PM, Keith Seyffarth wrote: > Core was generated by `firefox-bin'. > Program terminated with signal 12, Bad system call. > #0 0x29d7f16b in ?? () > > Now, again, this is in Firefox 3.5. That message isn't very informative > to me, but maybe it is helpful to someone else?

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-17 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Alokat wrote: > is it possible to encrypt my full harddrive (excluding /boot) during a > freebsd installation. Or do I have to do this after the installation manually? I don't believe the current installer knows about HD encryption. Do it after the install by follo

Re: Re[2]: strange behaviour

2011-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 14, 2011, at 1:48 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: > CS> Where are you routing 10.7.7.7 to? > > CS> If you don't have a specific internal route (or NAT) doing > CS> something with it, your upstream Internet routers ought to be > CS> returning ICMP host unreachable errors for RFC-1918 addresses...

Re: strange behaviour

2011-01-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 14, 2011, at 1:36 PM, Коньков Евгений wrote: > # ping 10.7.7.7 > PING 10.7.7.7 (10.7.7.7): 56 data bytes > ping: sendto: Invalid argument > ping: sendto: Invalid argument > ping: sendto: Invalid argument > > what is problem and how to fix?? Where are you routing 10.7.7.7 to? If you don't

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 13, 2011, at 1:46 PM, Devin Teske wrote: > This is nearly always accurate on any FreeBSD system (when wanting to > query the date the machine was built): > > ls -l /etc/defaults/rc.conf I gather that you don't ever run mergemaster, which would update this file? My machine installed i

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:45 PM, Chip Camden wrote: > On my system, /etc/termcap has the date well after my installation > (Jun 28 2010) and /etc/rmt dates to well before (Nov 21 2009). I first > installed FreeBSD on this system on Apr 1 2010. Certainly the target of the link would change; my /etc/t

Re: Date of a FreeBSD installation

2011-01-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 13, 2011, at 12:28 PM, David Demelier wrote: > I'm just guessing if there is a way to know a FreeBSD installation date. We > can't look after the uname -a ident since an update of the FreeBSD kernel is > possible. > > I think searching a file absolutely not touched ever in the system can

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