Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-07 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Jesse Guardiani writes: How recent are we talking about? In the 5.x timeframe, I believe, but I don't remember exactly when the improvements were made. I recall that soft updates are now encouraged on just about any partition. I've never had any trouble

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-04 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Jesse Guardiani writes: Then why doesn't sysinstall enable soft updates on the root FS by default? Because the root is not often written, and any data loss on the root is likely to have more negative effects than on other directories (often it would be something

/boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
knows to use ad1s1d as my root device? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, you wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: Hello, I'm a FreeBSD 5.3 user as well as a Gentoo Linux user. In Gentoo linux, you only have to create 3 partitions: /boot swap / In FreeBSD, you seem to have to create many more: / swap /usr /var /tmp

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: snip snip Anyway, that worked. The kernel boots now, but it prompts me at the beginning of the rc process for the root device. I give it: ufs:ad1s1d Which is my / partition, and it boots successfully. Is it possible to automate this process so

Re: /boot like linux!

2005-03-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Bob Johnson wrote: Jesse Guardiani wrote: On Thursday 03 March 2005 5:41 pm, [someone] wrote: I'm not sure I understand the problem. If you don't want to create more partitions, then don't. You can make an 80gb (or 300gb, or whatever) drive into two partitions - a swap partition (2gig

mkfifo - disk backed?

2004-09-13 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Hello, Just curious: Are FIFOs made by mkfifo disk backed? Do they go away between reboots? Do they lose data between reboots? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http

freebsd + linux dual boot share filesystem?

2004-05-19 Thread Jesse Guardiani
a msdosfs install (yuck...), but SYS-NOTES labels it as dangerous for even read-only. Is FreeBSD capable of reliable ext2fs read+write? If not, is there a filesystem besides msdosfs that I can share between FreeBSD and Linux? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet

Wine 20040505 problem

2004-05-13 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Hmmm, Just compiled Wine 20040505 on FBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE and now I can't use the File-Open command in notepad. Any ideas? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

tcopy tape to tape WAY too slow

2004-03-30 Thread Jesse Guardiani
can do to speed this up? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: tcopy tape to tape WAY too slow

2004-03-30 Thread Jesse Guardiani
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 10:39, you wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Jesse Guardiani said: I'm copying 35G/90G AIT-1 tapes on FreeBSD from tape drive to tape drive (nrsa0 and nrsa1) using the tcopy -c command and it's taking WAY too long. Over 12 hours including the verification process

Re: tcopy tape to tape WAY too slow

2004-03-30 Thread Jesse Guardiani
On Tuesday 30 March 2004 15:27, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Mar 30), Jesse Guardiani said: On Tuesday 30 March 2004 10:39, you wrote: If you have multiple files or unknown blocksizes, the cptp command from the MAG package at http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/mag.html will preserve

linux binary equivalent to ldd?

2004-02-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
/RealPlayer8/rpnp.so I get this: /usr/compat/linux/usr/bin/ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2: not found ldd: /lib/ld-linux.so.2 $exited with unknown exit code (127) Exit 1 Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423

Re: Hot Swap hardware on FreeBSD?

2004-01-29 Thread Jesse Guardiani
probably get optimum speed with vinum. However, it'll chew up your CPU and it might not be as reliable as a hardware solution. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

Re: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE 4, 6, or 8 port ATA PCI Controller

2004-01-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, Does anyone know of a 4, 6, or 8 port ATA PCI Controller that works well with FreeBSD? Preferably ATA-133 and large capacity drive capable. Thanks! How about non-RAID? I got one recommendation for 3ware Escalade controllers, but they are all RAID

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
.php -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Why BSD?

2004-01-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jason M. Leonard wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2004, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Jeff Elkins wrote: This is not a troll. I've installed FreeBSD 5.2 on a spare SCSI drive and am compiling kernels, updating ports, etc,etc. Thus far, other than some minor hassles, it's equivilent to my Debian

Re: Wep encryption.

2004-01-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
FreeBSD wepmode on wepkey 0xAA And I think 128 bit encryption is really just 104 bit encryption: wi0: flags=8843UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST mtu 1500 [...] wepkey 1:104-bit -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O

FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE firewire cards

2004-01-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, Has anyone had really good or really bad experiences with Firewire PCI cards that contain a supported firewire chipset? Trying to get a list of sure buys and avoid like the plague's. Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605

FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE Firewire ATA Hard Disk Enclosures

2004-01-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, Does anyone here have a mult-drive ATA-Firewire enclosure that they really like? Any ideas on things to look for? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http

FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE 4, 6, or 8 port ATA PCI Controller

2004-01-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, Does anyone know of a 4, 6, or 8 port ATA PCI Controller that works well with FreeBSD? Preferably ATA-133 and large capacity drive capable. Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423

Level 9 dump size calculation?

2004-01-16 Thread Jesse Guardiani
incorrectly labeling 54091 as the number of tape blocks when it should instead be labeling 54091 as the number of kilobytes? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

Re: combining partitions

2003-12-30 Thread Jesse Guardiani
. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: ZOT Print Server....

2003-12-30 Thread Jesse Guardiani
SMB. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

low level disk partition (NTFS) backup and restore

2003-12-27 Thread Jesse Guardiani
commands would I use to backup and restore the NTFS partition? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL

dynamic link problem

2003-12-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
712:-lm.5 = /usr/compat/linux/usr/i486-linux-libc5/lib/libm.so.5 So how do I fix this? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

Re: compiling a kernel on a different machine

2003-12-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
the DESTDIR environment var. If you're installing world then it's a different story, but kernels are fairly self contained. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

RE: Arplookup error.

2003-11-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
the same symptoms. The addresses it complains about belong to a colo box on our network and a cisco router. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
and the qmail style qmailctl script can be adapted to any configuration with minimal work to make an excellent control script. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

Re: usb digital camera

2003-11-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
camera. Works great! (or via digikam or via konquerer). I haven't had a whole lot of luck with these personally. Seems like they break every other KDE release. I think I'll stick with gtkam. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320

Re: pccardd of 5.1R-p10 not recognizing card(s)

2003-11-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
M. Warner Losh is working on this, but I could be wrong. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: daemon monitoring

2003-11-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Will Prater wrote: On Nov 24, 2003, at 1:10 PM, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Will Prater wrote: List, What are most of you using to monitor the running daemons? I have been loooking into DJB daemontools which seems appropriate, but are there any others that you reccomend? If DJB's

Re: dmesg.today-dmesg.yesterday

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: How does dmesg.today get rotated to dmesg.yesterday? I suspect my dmesg.today of being corrupted by old info. I have gotten the following message in my security output for the last four days: pid 4062 (clamd), uid 3848

Re: Modem problems

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
. Hope that helps. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: FreeBSD 5.1 on a Laptop

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
D Velez wrote: Hi, I was wondering if FreeBSD 5.1 can be install on a laptop? I've been running 5.1-RELEASE on my IBM Thinkpad A30p for 4 or 5 months now. I like it a lot. It's was a bit trickier to get installed than 4.8-RELEASE, but once it's installed it works well. -- Jesse Guardiani

RE: Modem

2003-11-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
in a hurry on my laptop. I think it's probably a good idea to get user ppp (FreeBSD Handbook) working before switching to kppp though. That way you'll be able to debug easier. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK

Re: About setup FreeBSD 5.1 RELEASE to Sony notebook PCG-R505GCK

2003-11-21 Thread Jesse Guardiani
hw.pci.allow_unsupported_io_range=1 And then 'boot'. You can type '?' for help. If that doesn't work, then try posting to either -CURRENT or -MOBILE. Perhaps someone there can be of more help. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v

Re: usb v1.1 external 2.0 hard disk problems with FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-20 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, I'm running FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE. I just bought a generic USB 1.1/2.0/firewire external drive enclosure for my 32gb Travelstar 12.5mm hard drive. The device shows up like this: Nov 18 14:06:16 trevarthan kernel: umass0: Acer Labs USB 2.0 Storage

dmesg.today-dmesg.yesterday

2003-11-20 Thread Jesse Guardiani
are the chances of clamd acquiring pid 4062 four days in a row? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL

Re: FreeBSD beside WinXP

2003-11-20 Thread Jesse Guardiani
questions. I'd consider myself nearly an expert on this by now, having survived both FreeBSD and Debian Linux on my 32Gb partition. FreeBSD is by far the easiest to deal with because it uses a multi-stage boot loader by default (i.e. NOT lilo). -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET

usb v1.1 external 2.0 hard disk problems with FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE

2003-11-18 Thread Jesse Guardiani
in this enclosure as long as I'm running Windows XP. But it just doesn't want to work under FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE for some reason... Does anyone have any clues to help get this drive working? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN

cendyne 56k external serial modem?

2003-11-07 Thread Jesse Guardiani
or something. Anyway, I'm just wondering if the cendyne 56k is indeed a controller based serial modem, or if it's a nasty serial winmodem, designed to fool the world into thinking it's controller based. Has anyone had experience with the cendyne external 56k serial modem? -- Jesse Guardiani

perc 3/di freebsd managment software

2003-11-07 Thread Jesse Guardiani
) version 1.0 for FreeBSD 4.4 and FreeBSD 4.5 For the Adaptec SCSI RAID 5400S Works great with the Perc 3/di. I can now monitor and rebuild my array without taking the machine down! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423

Re: AC97 sound support

2003-11-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
curious to see if they're identical: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:31:5: class=0x040100 card=0x02221014 chip=0x24858086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801CA/CAM (ICH3-S/ICH3-M) AC'97 Audio Controller' class= multimedia subclass = audio Good luck! -- Jesse

Re: OpenOffice build

2003-11-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
the package on the OO-1.1 website said it required some kernel changes from -CURRENT. I'm NOT making this available for general download directly from me. Contact me offlist if you're interested in providing my package on a website somewhere. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET

Re: usb pendrive problems

2003-10-28 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, A co-worker of mine has a neat little usb pen drive. I set it up properly in /etc/usbd.conf with this entry: - # The entry below mounts Todd's Pendrive when the Pendrive is plugged

howto dissallow upgrade for specific port?

2003-10-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
-upgradable? Thanks. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: howto dissallow upgrade for specific port?

2003-10-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Ruben de Groot wrote: On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:23:03AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani typed: [...] Is there a way to mark a port as non-upgradable? Yes, see /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf HOLD_PKGS = [ 'bsdpan-*', 'x11*/XFree86*', 'portupgrade', 'python-*', ] Thanks

portupgrade auto deinstall+reinstall?

2003-10-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
back from lunch. :) Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Re: portupgrade auto deinstall+reinstall?

2003-10-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 10:41 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, Sorry if this is an obvious question, but I didn't find anything in the portupgrade manpage. I'm in the process of upgrading the ports on my 5.1-RELEASE laptop, and I just executed the following

usb pendrive problems

2003-10-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
- But the first one is a ghost, and if either are umount'd, my kernel panics and my system reboots! Is there a way to reliably umount an already disconnected umass0 SCSI-2 device? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland

Re: portupgrade auto deinstall+reinstall?

2003-10-24 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 01:38 pm, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Kent Stewart wrote: On Friday 24 October 2003 10:41 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote: [...] I come from the programming world and to update a library and not update the codes that use it really bothers me. I do what

Re: Upgrade to 4.8 RELEASE

2003-10-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
something wrong... ? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Upgrade to 4.8 RELEASE

2003-10-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jud wrote: On Thu, 23 Oct 2003 09:21:13 -0400, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jud wrote: On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:04:39 -0400, Robert H. Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Unless there is a specific reason not to do so, cvsup and make world would seem to be an easier

cups + samba on 5.1-RELEASE or 4.8-RELEASE

2003-10-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, Just in case anyone is interested, I have updated my cups+samba install and post-install configuration HOWTO. See attached. Again, this is an update from the configuration I provided here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.questions/65979/match=cups+jesse -- Jesse

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
don't understand how to use the ports tree 100% yet... -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Openoffice 1.1 + native java

2003-10-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jud wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 15:37:55 -0400, Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Jud wrote: [snip] If you cvsup the ports tree, you can choose to install from either ports or packages. Do you run a cvsuped ports tree? I used to run one last year, and I could never install from

sio3 (COM4) problems on FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE

2003-10-13 Thread Jesse Guardiani
flag that I need to pass to this port to get it working? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

ripping CDs, encoding into MP3s, and labeling later

2003-09-29 Thread Jesse Guardiani
to the internet and freedb). Is there a program that WILL do this? 3.) How do you usually handle this situation? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

RE: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-16 Thread Jesse Guardiani
thing that they apparently can't do is bake bread. Probably depends on how many processors you have -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-15 Thread Jesse Guardiani
/ software to meet them. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

RE: 56k pccard modem connect speed?

2003-09-15 Thread Jesse Guardiani
to see this speed as it changes to compensate for line noise. That would be nice. You don't happen to have any on-line docs to back up that claim, do you? -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
how any of the above translates to memory usage as shown by VSZ and RSS under `ps`, or SIZE and RES under `top`. Any ideas? Maybe running vmstat -w 1 would give you a different perspective also. I'll check it out. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: 1.) Where is my Free memory going? I can't account for it in the SIZE and RES columns of the various processes. These are relatively constant. Disk cache. I thought it might be something like that. My large test

Re: `top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 12), Jesse Guardiani said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 11), Jesse Guardiani said: 2.) What, exactly, is RES? `man top` describes it as this: RES is the current amount of resident memory, but does that mean RES

56k pccard modem connect speed?

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, I use: ppp -auto MyProvider to connect to the internet with my 56k pccard. How do I glean the connection speed? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http

RE: 56k pccard modem connect speed?

2003-09-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
connected modems up or down depending on line static, noise, etc... Are events like this logged in ppp.log? Is there a command I can run, while connected, that will tell me my current connect speed? Or is this something internal to the modem that I can't retreive? Thanks. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems

`top` process memory usage: SIZE vs RES

2003-09-11 Thread Jesse Guardiani
? Or does that mean that RES should be counted in addition to SIZE? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

howto calculate free memory from top

2003-09-09 Thread Jesse Guardiani
understand the 70M Free part, but should I add 668M Inact to that? Or is it more complicated? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

Re: howto calculate free memory from top

2003-09-09 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Charles Swiger wrote: On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 08:35 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote: How do I calculate the amount of free memory my system has at any given point in time? What do you mean by free memory? Memory that can be used by other programs before the vm starts using swap

Re: FreeBSD and Hot Swap rebuild on SCSI disks.

2003-09-09 Thread Jesse Guardiani
it on my AMR MegaRAID (Dell Perc 2/SC) RAID 5 array. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: howto calculate free memory from top

2003-09-09 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Sep 09), Jesse Guardiani said: Charles Swiger wrote: On Tuesday, September 9, 2003, at 08:35 AM, Jesse Guardiani wrote: How do I calculate the amount of free memory my system has at any given point in time? What do you mean by free memory

Re: 802.11g and FreeBSD based access point ...

2003-09-08 Thread Jesse Guardiani
after 5.1-RELEASE. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
NOT want to know what you had to do to install foomatic-rip, hpijs, or any other printer-specific software properly. I'm only interested in cups configuration and setup info. My email address is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have a great day! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services

fwe in production? fwe bandwidth?

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
device? 4.) What hardware has it been tested to work well on? 5.) If this isn't the place to ask, where should I go? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

Re: process memory peak recording

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 06:53:09PM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, I'm a Sys Admin running FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE servers. During a recent programming/installation project, I found myself wanting to know the peak memory usage of a given command/process

Re: process memory peak recording

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Matthew Seaman wrote: On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 10:03:31AM -0400, Jesse Guardiani wrote: [...] Another approach that occurred to me might be feasible would be to use the limits(1) facility to set a maximum virtual memory size for the process. Then do a binary search to find the smallest

Re: process memory peak recording

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Jesse Guardiani [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: During a recent programming/installation project, I found myself wanting to know the peak memory usage of a given command/process. Is there any way to gather this information without recompiling an application with a sleep

Re: Planning a FreeBSD desktop, basic questions.

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
/learning curve over 4.8-RELEASE. On the flip side, you're probably going to have to face that learning curve at some point in the future anyway, so you might as well dive in on your conditions and your timeframe, rather than wait until it's a requirement. HTH Sincerely, -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
not let anyone else unknowingly take the credit! :-] Me! Me! Me! ) Anyway, the CUPS startup in /usr/local/etc/rc.d will run the CUPS daemon. It isn't necessary to replace lpd, which will run at the same time. That is my experience also. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET

Re: CUPS, foomatic-rip, 4.8 RELEASE (was: How to get CUPS to work)

2003-09-05 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Todd Stephens wrote: On Friday 05 September 2003 09:59 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote: I hope the above information is useful to someone. It MAY NOT be 100% complete. I was very tired when I took the above notes. Please write me and let me know if you had to add anything or do anything

fwe in production? fwe bandwidth?

2003-09-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
statement at the (assumed) point of peak memory usage and then looking at the process with 'ps'? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

process memory peak recording

2003-09-03 Thread Jesse Guardiani
statement at the (assumed) point of peak memory usage and then looking at the process with 'ps'? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

Re: smb network browsing

2003-08-14 Thread Jesse Guardiani
and doesn't use mount_smbfs at all). LinNeighbourhood is perfect! Exactly what I was looking for! I would have never found it without the suggestion either! Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v

Re: What version? I am beginner....

2003-08-14 Thread Jesse Guardiani
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smb network browsing

2003-08-14 Thread Jesse Guardiani
the job! Any ideas? Sincerely, -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http

Changing gnome fonts from KDE

2003-07-26 Thread Jesse Guardiani
want GIMP, Grip, and GnuCash fonts to change too! Thanks, -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED

virtual pcm mixing

2003-07-23 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, Does anyone know if it's possible to mix virtual PCM devices? (i.e. /dev/dsp0.1, /dev/dsp0.2, etc...) I'm trying to run XMMS at a different volume level than my KDE SFX volume level. XMMS is using /dev/dsp0.2 and KDE is using /dev/dsp0.3. Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems

Re: 5.1-RELEASE Windows XP dual-boot issues

2003-06-30 Thread Jesse Guardiani
them you'll be alright. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: SMP: question

2003-06-19 Thread Jesse Guardiani
. And I could be blind but I can't find anything in the handbook. I think your dmesg.boot and your kernel config file would be good to see right about now. Thanks, Curt Micol -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605

devfs problem (was: Re: 5.x usb gphoto

2003-06-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Howdy list, I'm trying to get gphoto2 to connect to my digital camera as a NON root user. (it works fine when root, but that's a security risk) Under 4.x, all I had to do was make the appropriate USB devices group readable and writeable, then add users

Re: devfs problem (was: Re: 5.x usb gphoto

2003-06-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
plug my camera in. The above doesn't effect it (because I think it is only run at boot). I haven't rebooted my machine to test, but I shouldn't have to, right? I should just have to plug my camera in, which I did, and it didn't effect the ugen device. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator

Re: devfs problem (was: Re: 5.x usb gphoto

2003-06-17 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Jesse Guardiani wrote: Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: It should have read something nicer in the comment though: # Allow members of group operator to write to ugen0 perm ugen0 0664 Is that supposed to work for devices that always exist, or for devices that are created on the fly

5.x usb gphoto

2003-06-16 Thread Jesse Guardiani
the ugen devices to appear with group writable permissions. Any help appreciated! Thanks. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605 423-559-LINK (v) 423-559-5145 (f) http://www.wingnet.net

Re: Sony Digital Audio System

2003-06-13 Thread Jesse Guardiani
kernel, then start recompiling the new kernel without some of the options and devices you just added. Something is causing problems. Use the process of elimination to figure out what it is. -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320

Re: Sony Digital Audio System

2003-06-13 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Christopher Rosado wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 13 June 2003 07:31 am, Jesse Guardiani wrote: Doesn't look like it has anything to do with artsd or KDE. It looks like your kernel keeps panicing on boot. No. He reports the panic happens during KDE

Re: 4.8 to 5.0

2003-06-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
three days now. Alex ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet Services, P.O. Box

sysinstall debug screen

2003-06-12 Thread Jesse Guardiani
Howdy list, I've gotten a few errors now at different times from sysinstall during a package install under 5.1-RELEASE. Each time it tells me to view the 'debug screen' for more info. What debug screen? How do I view it? Thanks! -- Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator WingNET Internet