Re: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/serialconsole-setup.html

2013-06-25 Thread pete wright
on setting up IPMI. -pete ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Status of Chromium port...

2013-05-15 Thread pete wright
try to dig up some build logs if that would be helpful. i don't have any special build arguments for this port. here's the uname for this build box: [pete@ranch ~]$ uname -ar FreeBSD ranch.nomadlogic.org 9.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-RELEASE #0 r243825: Tue Dec 4 09:23:10 UTC 2012 r

Re: Cdorked.A

2013-05-09 Thread pete wright
having problems finding a proper examination/explanation of this backdoor. cheers, -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread pete wright
/ there is also an east coast mirror hosted by NycBUG/NYI: http://lists.nycbug.org/pipermail/talk/2013-March/014741.html -pete ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: When will binary packages be back?

2013-04-10 Thread pete wright
be a wasted effort :) i've been quite happy with it since it first was released, and there is still plenty of active development happening on it as well. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: svn new pkg system

2013-03-09 Thread pete wright
On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 3:25 PM, Fbsd8 fb...@a1poweruser.com wrote: Is svn going to become part of the base system in 9.2-RELEASE? not sure about svn, but this port has recently been commited: http://www.freshports.org/net/svnup/ it is a csup replacement. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org

Re: Question about svn

2012-11-18 Thread pete wright
Summer of Code FreeBSD related projects. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: 10Gb SFP+ recomendations?

2012-09-26 Thread pete wright
good success running Intel 10gig NICs supported by ixgbe(1) on 8.x systems. I see no reason as to why they would not work on 9.x as well. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread pete wright
On Tue, Sep 18, 2012 at 6:41 AM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2012, pete wright wrote: On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 8:14 PM, Warren Block wbl...@wonkity.com wrote: csup updates just the files that have changed without all the overhead. svn export can get a copy of all

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread pete wright
that it results in a cleaner public tree that is easier to navigate. so fortunately the project has been able to take advantage of both of of these philosophies of SCM. -pete (1) http://wiki.freebsd.org/LocalMercurial -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-19 Thread pete wright
there will be a csup like utility for svn available in base one day. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org @nomadlogicLA ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd

Re: What replaces csup?

2012-09-17 Thread pete wright
the current files, but it copies all of them every time, not just the changes. yea i agree with you. i wonder if it would be worth the effort of sharing a svn export via rsync or httpd to make fetching delta's easier and/or more efficient from a base install? -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org

Re: Default Samba port?

2011-11-13 Thread pete wright
for production standard, but something that just works on RELEASE-8.2 amd64. your best bet may be to install a prebuilt package via: pgk_add -r samba that is unless you need some non-standard knobs tuned. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org

Re: get rel 9.0 iso

2011-09-07 Thread pete wright
shortly... -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: em0 NIC slow on 8.2-p1 amd64?

2011-07-22 Thread pete wright
attribute caching (decreasing amount of getattr() calls when traversing filesystems) and other interesting bigs v4 has. Granted moving from v3 to v4 is not trivial... just my two bits :) -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread pete wright
. The job launches - I can see an entry for cURL in top - but no file in /root. I've tried several variations on the first line of the script, but I'm getting nowhere, though I'm sure it's something stupidly simple that I'm missing. What am I missing? #!/bin/sh ? -pete -- pete wright

Re: Probably working too hard for this cron question

2011-06-13 Thread pete wright
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: Yeah Pete, kinda need that huh.  Kurt, If that turns out to be the only issue, don't feel bad - I've forgotten it myself several times!  I'm sure many others have as well! as someone who was fixing some brain dead cron

Re: Security monitoring all file changes

2011-04-22 Thread pete wright
was changed or deleted and by whom we can answer that question. In what directtion should i look? Is Audit the thing for it? mtree is probably what you are looking for: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=mtreeapropos=0sektion=0manpath=FreeBSD+8.2-RELEASEformat=html -pete -- pete wright

Re: New to FreeBsd

2011-01-03 Thread Pete
://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors As far as I know 'packets' are created using TCP/IP which is very basically how data is transferred across a computer network. Regards, Pete. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: more dns weirdness

2010-12-09 Thread pete wright
hosts to query as well as alternative databases. specifically i think the -h switch will be of interest. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ssh key authentication problem...

2010-10-28 Thread pete wright
, and not accessible by others. it also covers other files as well. HTH -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: Exporting ZFS Pool

2010-09-08 Thread Pete Erickson
On Wed Sep 8 01:20:07 2010, CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: On 09/07/2010 09:25 PM, Pete Erickson wrote: I'm relatively new to ZFS and have been playing around with different file-backed set ups to determine how I will eventually configure my pools. I've recently come across

Re: Exporting ZFS Pool

2010-09-08 Thread Pete Erickson
** Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com [2010-09-08 11:49:08 -0500] ** In the last episode (Sep 08), Pete Erickson said: On Wed Sep 8 01:20:07 2010, CyberLeo Kitsana cyber...@cyberleo.net wrote: On 09/07/2010 09:25 PM, Pete Erickson wrote: I'm relatively new to ZFS and have been playing

Exporting ZFS Pool

2010-09-07 Thread Pete Erickson
. ratchet# zpool create z /usr/tmp/disk1.dd /usr/tmp/disk2.dd invalid vdev specification use '-f' to override the following errors: /usr/tmp/disk1.dd is part of exported pool 'pool' -- Pete Erickson redlamb _at_ redlamb _dot_ net ___ freebsd-questions

Re: iptables equivaelnt

2010-06-21 Thread pete wright
to combat spam. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread pete wright
://www.nvidia.com/object/freebsd_1.0-4365.html Regarding games in particular - it really depends on which game you are looking to play, and what it's requirements are. I have played HalfLife2 via wine emulation on FreeBSD using the nvidia driver for example. HTH -pete -- pete wright

Re: Gaming

2010-04-29 Thread pete wright
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:57 AM, pete wright nomadlo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 10:10 AM, Joe's Morgue joes_mor...@yahoo.com wrote: Looking thru your manuals, I have not seen anything about gaming on a FreeBSD machine. Are there drivers for higher end graphic cards

Re: 8.0-RELEASE/amd64 - full ZFS install - low read and write disk performance

2010-01-25 Thread Pete French
is, however on PCI-X, not PCI. It's a shame PCI-X appears to have gone the way of the dinosaur :-( -pete. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions

Re: 8.0 zfs install

2009-12-04 Thread pete wright
for any information you may have regarding the OS: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/filesystems-zfs.html You can also get more information via the FreeBSD wiki here: http://wiki.freebsd.org/ZFS -- pete wright www.nycbug.org

Re: splitting Mbox file thread-sorted

2009-11-05 Thread Pete
Sam Fourman Jr. wrote: On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 11:20 AM, jhell jh...@dataix.net wrote: On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 08:13, guru@ wrote: Hello, Is there some tool or something in the ports which could split a Mbox file into various pieces, but having the threads together? I could do it by hand with

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread pete wright
I use postfix, and freebsd makes this quite easy to do as well. if you don't want to use sendmail on your machines it's easy - just don't use it. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread pete wright
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 6:24 PM, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: On Tue, 27 Oct 2009, pete wright wrote: On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: You guessed wrong. We use m4, which cuts out most of the crap that you had to write

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-27 Thread pete wright
be in the position to import this into the freebsd tree? it sounds like it might fit the bill :) -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Mounting an NFS volume served by Mac OS X

2009-09-01 Thread pete wright
be helpful if you post your /etc/exports file from your server (or what ever configuration you are using on the OSX server) and your mount command that is failing. -pete -- pete wright www.nycbug.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Partitioning for multiple systems

2009-05-21 Thread Pete Carah
indeed work on this laptop, and mount finds and mounts the main linux partition; then any reference gets an errno back, apparently due to the inode length issue. I saw a request for mfc of the fix for this (it is apparently in fbsd-current, and already pr'd regarding 7-stable.) -- Pete

USB NIC udav driver

2009-03-15 Thread Pete C
.. am I missing something .. or is this USB NIC unsupported .. TIA Pete C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr

Re: When is there going to be a USB install and run iso iamge for FreeBSD?

2009-02-21 Thread pete wright
/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Sure would like a copy of your scrips. Thanks +1 here. would it be possible to post the scripts, or a url, to the list? cheers, -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User

Re: Edit user groups

2009-01-21 Thread pete wright
-- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: Secondary DNS or BSD Server space

2008-12-19 Thread pete wright
. I've been using them for a while now and am quite happy with them too. if you check out their jobs board there are openings for FreeBSD engineers: http://dynamicnetworkservices.com/jobs-hiring -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group

MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread pete
domain set to use my cable IP as a MTA, or if I have to do some kind of end run around cablevision to get a MTA set up locally. Also looking for advice on which software would serve me bet in this instance. TIA Pete C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: nsswitch.conf man page

2008-07-16 Thread pete wright
add something to the affect of: passwd files ldap group files ldap yep that's about it, here is what i use for ldap auth on some workstations that hit an openldap cluster. passwd: files ldap shadow: files ldap group: files ldap -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD

Using RocketRAID 1810A (hptmv) as an ordinary controller?

2008-07-14 Thread Pete
I'd like to use my HighPoint RocketRAID 1810A as an ordinary SATA controller without any RAID functionality. This works fine out of the box for all sectors of the disk except the last ten, which are hidden. The controller is identified as: hptmv0: RocketRAID 182x SATA Controller mem

Re: Version 5.4

2008-05-27 Thread pete wright
of the Apache web server that is needed? FreeBSD supports many different versions of the Apache webserver - yet the ports system makes installing, and updating, these applications very easy. Hope this helps, -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group

Re: DYNDNS server (NOT CLIENT)

2008-01-09 Thread pete wright
and server packages are available in the ports tree as well... /me is going to look into this for his own use now :) -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Firewall Redirect

2007-11-30 Thread pete wright
and will allow you take advantage of load balancing etc. with mod_jk as well. i currently use this setup for a site that serves both static content from httpd and .jsp pages from tomcat all on the same box. HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group

Re: vim doesn't preserve the terminal content

2007-11-02 Thread Pete Slagle
Yuri wrote: I use vim both on Linux and FreeBSD. On Linux after I exit vim original screen content is restored. On FreeBSD vim leaves the last content viewed in vim. How do I make vim preserve the screen? Thanks, Yuri This behavior is controlled by xterm settings. Try holding the

Re: iSCSI and multi-terabyte support?

2007-10-10 Thread pete wright
have beta tested their iSCSI implementation and it does look good. HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: courier-authlib problems.

2007-10-09 Thread pete wright
in /usr/local/etc/courier-imap/imapd-ssl: TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL23 believe old default value was: TLS_PROTOCOL=SSL3 HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: Backup Large FileServer

2007-09-28 Thread pete wright
/ You should get much better performance (you can write your backup to disk - it does not have to be a tape device) and all windows metadata etc. should be preserved as well. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd

Re: sshd config config file question

2007-07-10 Thread pete wright
-p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help! FreeBSD: 88.78 KBps, Linux: 624.95 KBps

2007-07-10 Thread pete wright
at that stuff closely - that info is kinda pointless w/o the basic hardware, OS data. -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread pete wright
image on disk. having said that - i see no reason why one couldn't write a wrapper around dump(8) and mksnap_ffs. -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread pete wright
; tar xvpf -) or something similar. you could use rsync, but that would give you uneeded overhead IMHO. -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Restore UFS snapshot

2007-05-26 Thread pete wright
On 5/26/07, Svein Halvor Halvorsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 pete wright wrote: hmm...i'm still a little confused as to where you are going. there are three main way's i've used snapshot's in large (~1PB) environments, two of which are applicable

VNC ??

2007-05-14 Thread Pete C
what are some of the more current ways to do remote desktop functions w/ FreeBSD 6.2 host and WinXP client . . googled, but alot of stuff out there seems to be awful old . . TIA Pete C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: VNC ??

2007-05-14 Thread Pete C
Quoting Jack Barnett [EMAIL PROTECTED]: uh, since he's blocking my emails, here is info if anyone else is interested. so sorry for the bad reply-to addy, new web-mail client ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Bridging with tap

2007-05-02 Thread Pete Jones
by if_bridge and that I should be able to bridge the two interfaces using rc.conf. I have entered the correct command, but how do know for sure that the two interfaces are bridged? thanks in advance - Original Message - From: Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Pete Jones [EMAIL

Bridging with tap

2007-04-29 Thread Pete Jones
Does anyone know anything about ethernet bridging to a tap interface in Freebsd 6.2. I have compiled the bridge option and the tap device into the kernel, but the tap device has not appeared. I have tried this on a virtual machine and a separate box with the same results, yet it works with

Re: Shell scripting: Absolute path name of a file given as parameter

2007-04-12 Thread Pete Slagle
Aitor San Juan wrote: I have developed a shell script that, among other things, shows the filename that was specified as a parameter. However, when I invoke the script and the file is located in the current working directory, it just shows: ./my_input_filename I'd like the script to

Re: Recommended SMP Hardware

2007-04-05 Thread pete wright
the motherboard will be less expensive than a multi-socket board. Not sure where you are located - but I saw an add for a Southern Californian Fry's that had the an Intel Core2Duo motherboard/cpu combo for pretty cheap (~$190US). I assume you can find similar deals on the 'net as well. Hope this helps! -pete

Re: Patches in FreeBSD

2007-02-26 Thread pete wright
. :) and you can update your third party packages via binary packages (which you can get from freebsd.org or build yourself)...so it seems these two solutions would be a great fit. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group

Re: FTP Servers Down

2007-02-14 Thread pete wright
. hmm...what's the error message you are getting when it tries to grab a package. i do not see any issues from where i am, but an error message will help folks on the list diagnose what's going on your end. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group

Re: origin of system message?

2007-02-14 Thread pete wright
values are set: net.inet.tcp.log_in_vain: 1 # Log all incoming TCP connections net.inet.udp.log_in_vain: 1 # Log all incoming UDP packets Both. I don't want to stop the messages, merely re-direct them. you can set that up in your syslog.conf(5) file. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o

Re: origin of system message?

2007-02-14 Thread pete wright
On 2/14/07, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: pete wright writes: Feb 14 17:03:50 jerusalem kernel: Connection attempt to UDP 209.6.203.219:1026 from 202.97.238.130:52821 What program/process issues this, and at what facility and level? I don't want

Re: Newbie--new install on Core 2 Duo?

2007-02-13 Thread pete wright
On 2/13/07, Gerard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday February 13, 2007 at 01:42:23 (PM) pete wright wrote: how would you define correct? have all systems boot with a SMP kernel by default so that machines with multiple processors automatically detect all available CPU's? then what about

Re: Dual boot problems

2007-02-13 Thread pete wright
in this environment from the ports tree? it looks like grub may only build correctly on i386 systems, but you may be able to define your cpu as a 32bit arch in /etc/make.conf while trying to build grub to see if that works. i've never had to do this though, but it's worth a shot. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete

portmanager behaviour

2007-02-07 Thread pete wright
removed itself from the system. anyone else see this? -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: interpreting top output (computing n% cpu usage in actual megahertz)

2007-02-02 Thread pete wright
to start: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_management HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Pete Slagle
Matthew Seaman wrote: [You could make /etc/localtime a link or a symlink to the appropriate file under /usr/share/zoneinfo, but only if /etc and /usr/share/zoneinfo happen to be on the same filesystem (ie. on the root filesystem), which is not the case in the default install of FreeBSD] As

Re: duo core question

2007-01-17 Thread pete wright
for similar reasons mentioned above. if you are using your desktop like %90 of unix people out there (web/mail and ssh'ing into servers) i'm not sure having two cores (let alone multiple CPU's) is worth the price. just my 2bit's. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group

Re: duo core question

2007-01-17 Thread pete wright
On 1/17/07, Garrett Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 17, 2007, at 11:55 AM, pete wright wrote: On 1/16/07, Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: thank you guys for reply... very useful... :-) so for you guys who have experiecen with this cpu, do you really feel it?? i think you

iSCSI hardware HBA status

2007-01-12 Thread pete wright
. For example I have a Qlogic 1gig 2port HBA with a ISP4022 chipset. Is any work being done on this? I would be willing to do some testing if time permits on my end. thanks! -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd

Re: Release info

2007-01-09 Thread pete wright
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Re: alittle help

2007-01-05 Thread pete wright
: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/linuxemu.html -p -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

My recent Epiphany about operating systems

2006-12-20 Thread Terabyte Pete
7:04 AM, Wednesday, December 20, 2006 In Winblow$, the release bundling of IE was purposely as crippleware, virus, bug delivery system 2 trap people into constantly 'upgrading'. A simple comparisson of Windows 95 side-by-side with the final Windows ME various IE 'upgrades' illustrates how

Re: running out of mbuf clusters

2006-12-12 Thread pete wright
this via sysctl or if you have to define it in your kernel config. in any event if you type sysctl kern.ipc.nmbclusters that should report you maximum mbuf's that can be allocated. I am guessing you may have to increase this value. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User

Re: NFS question - which is the server

2006-12-12 Thread pete wright
client? in this model the NFS server will be the node in which you export your data to other machines. I.e. the machine which holds the files you want to access. The client will be the machine that needs to access said files. in your case the multiuser box will be the client. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o

Re: Real-time command history sharing between interactive shells

2006-11-29 Thread pete wright
will not be sufficient. if it is you can define $HISTFILE in bash/ksh to point to ~/.history as well. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread pete wright
in there. hopefully it'll give you a good idea of the hardware support of various laptops out there. putting laptop as a search string seems to pull up a fair amount of hit's. HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd

Re: 3Com 3c905B-COMBO and 10base2/BNC

2006-11-04 Thread Pete Slagle
Karol Kwiatkowski wrote: anyone got 3Com 3c905B-COMBO network card (Fast EtherLink XL PCI) working with 10base2/BNC? I just bought one and I can't figure it out. It has BNC connector and should be supported according to man xl page. You did use T-connectors with 50 ohm terminators at both

Re: cvsup*.au.freebsd.org ??

2006-10-31 Thread Pete Slagle
James Long wrote: Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:21:32 +1100 From: Alan Garfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: cvsup*.au.freebsd.org ?? To: Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain I also find that the

Re: Moving jails from one computer to another

2006-10-25 Thread pete wright
on a development server, then deploying the final product to a production server. Comments, thoughts, criticisms welcomed. yea, this is actually one the larger benefits of jailing IMO. i've used this method to help setup distributed mirroring of websites for some OSS projects. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete

musicpd kld sound

2006-10-20 Thread Pete C
in the snd_drvr line in the config file. is there a way to specify the order in which these items load ? any clues appreciated . . Pete C replace 'nospam' w/ my first name to reply directly ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: musicpd kld sound

2006-10-20 Thread Pete C
I have an issue w/ mpd starting (trying to, anyway) before the kld for sound loads up, which causes mpd to fail loading . . then I have to start mpd at the command line. I would like to set up sound in the kernel, but I have Aureal 8810 based sound on the MB and don't see a driver to use

Re: VMWare

2006-10-13 Thread Pete Slagle
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Davison, Robert [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm looking to run VMware on my FreeBSD box and note that version 3 is in the ports. I've not tried running Linux software ontop of FreeBSD, but how easy is it to download the free VMware Server software off their site

Re: unattended installation

2006-10-05 Thread pete wright
on scripting sysinstall. you will most likely want to merge this with a pxeboot environment. -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: Ruby gaining weight? [RESOLVED]

2006-10-03 Thread Pete Slagle
Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Pete Slagle wrote: Recent versions of ruby18 seem to take more than 145 MB of virtual memory to build with portupgrade or make install clean. Karol Kwiatkowski wrote less than a week ago: # cd /usr/ports/lang/ruby18 # make -DNOPORTDOCS install That put me on the right

Re: Question about installing FreeBSD

2006-10-03 Thread Pete C
the .iso files and burn them to CD . . then use your boot floppies to start the install from the CDs (or just boot from the CD if supported by your equip) Pete C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Ruby gaining weight?

2006-10-02 Thread Pete Slagle
Recent versions of ruby18 seem to take more than 145 MB of virtual memory to build with portupgrade or make install clean. I have several classic boxes running bind and a mail MTA on 4.11 that are memory-limited, but otherwise work well. The main boards are maxed out at 64 MB of RAM, and they

Re: Exim As MTA

2006-09-25 Thread Pete Slagle
B. Cook wrote: I am running Exim as a sendmail replacement, and I keep getting a Message failure - message too big in my inbox for root. (looks like from daily run output) I do want to see the mail due to the messages in the queue.. but how do I get it not to show me rejected mail? To

Re: Do I need to completely disable sendmail?

2006-09-24 Thread Pete Slagle
Rob Gabaree wrote: I have a remote server that I don't plan on using for email as I have another server to handle that. My question is.. is it a bad idea to _completely_ disable sendmail on that machine? Yes. You probably want to allow the server to send you administrative mail that it

Re: Poutupgrade unsafe

2006-09-14 Thread Pete Slagle
Olivier Nicole wrote: I know the mistake was on my side, I was not carefull enough when using portupgrade on a production machine but... Yesterday I froze our system for about one hour when I used portupgrade to upgrade Samba. It was a very minor upgrade (from 3.0.10 to 3.0.23c,1 I think),

Re: Extensions and Themes in Firefox

2006-09-12 Thread Pete Slagle
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: uninstall firefox then make sure linux binary compatibility is enabled, the easiest way to do that is with sysinstall. (read the handbook for more info on this step) Now cd into /usr/ports/www and look at any port whose name starts with linux the ones I

Efficacy vs. friendliness [Was: How to fix init - /etc/ttys?]

2006-09-07 Thread Pete Slagle
Gary Kline wrote: SOAPBOX Anyway, this is to the entire list: A week or so ago I loaned my 5.3 set to a non-geek friend who had occasionally been using RH. He brought the box of discs back and said it was too hard to install; that RH had a much easier

6.1 recommended instead of 5.x for new installations [was: Efficacy vs. friendliness]

2006-09-07 Thread Pete Slagle
jdow wrote: I noticed that FreeBSD 5.x was somewhat quicker than that to get up, running, and up to date. I can't think of a good reason to use FreeBSD 5.x for a new installation; 6.1 contains so many reliability and performance improvements that it is the clear choice over 5.5. (Upgrades are

Re: Anyone Using the New Free Mulberry Mail Client?

2006-09-01 Thread Pete Slagle
RW wrote: There used to be a port of Cyrusoft's Mulberry mail client that installed the Linux rpm version; then Cyrusoft went bankrupt and the port dissappeared. Mulberry is now available for free as a standalone Linux binary: http://www.mulberrymail.com Has anyone got

Re: Memory leak in PHP on FreeBSD

2006-08-30 Thread pete wright
of technical help. betting the admin's may have misunderstood something or misconfigured something... -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

linux-firefox

2006-08-30 Thread Pete C
.3 is missing . . . Any clues appreciated . . . Pete C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Time zone isn't displaying right one with 'tzsetup'

2006-08-23 Thread Pete Slagle
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Tuesday, 22 August 2006 at 23:45:19 -0400, Robert Gabaree wrote: Hi, I tried to update my new server to the new time zone by running 'tzsetup' and selecting Eastern. However, instead of showing 11:45, it shows 6:45 - 5 hours later. I even tried to do a 'cp

Re: Cacti FreeBSD Jail CPU RAM monitoring

2006-08-14 Thread pete wright
a process resides in - . this method will only work from the master as well. similar tricks can be used inside a jail as well. HTH -pete -- ~~o0OO0o~~ Pete Wright www.nycbug.org NYC's *BSD User Group ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

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