Re: Startup from script

2012-05-22 Thread User Wojtek
In my crontab I define script 'do_daily.run': 30 23 * * * root /root/cronjobs/do_daily.run The content of this script (amongst others) is: rsync -avpog /etc /backup/$DATE/ Funny thing now is that in the output of the script, the

openoffice doesn't work - any ideas?

2012-05-19 Thread User Wojtek
[wojtek@wojtek ~/robod]$ openoffice-3.4.0 [Java framework] Error in function createSettingsDocument (elements.cxx).javaldx failed! terminate called after throwing an instance of 'com::sun::star::uno::RuntimeException' compiled fine, installed without problems jdk 1.6 too. any ideas? thanks

Re: Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation

2012-05-19 Thread User Wojtek
the system setup menu, the boot menu shows that freebsd90 is the first (and only) bootable hard drive. Yet when I try to install FreeBSD 9.0-R, FreeBSD ignores the hardware RAID and sees the two separate drives, instead of seeing a single logical drive. good lesson to NEVER use this

Re: Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation

2012-05-19 Thread User Wojtek
FreeBSD will use a hardware RAID device -only- if the particular type of RAID chip/chipset/controller is known to the included device drivers. do not use hardware RAID for such things as this is nothing else than normal controller and BIOS/driver support.

Re: Optiplex 755 RAID 1 logical drive configuration ignored by FreeBSD 9.0-R installation

2012-05-19 Thread User Wojtek
I used 'hardware RAID' because that is -precisely- how the OP described their equipment. unfortunately this is true - it is DESCRIBED as such. lie is standard tool in todays IT marketing. What are facts: - very few controllers actually have some RAID support. those usually have onboard RAM

Re: openoffice doesn't work - any ideas?

2012-05-19 Thread User Wojtek
the problem is that what i found is not this. all description i found is that deleting .openoffice* from $HOME fixes it. it doesn't. i even created new user with no leftover any config files and still same. On Sat, 19 May 2012, lokada...@gmx.de wrote: On 05/19/12 13:24, User Wojtek wrote

Re: Why do I feel like compact flash is more reliable than SSD ?

2011-12-30 Thread UFS User
On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 2:13 AM, UFS User ufs.u...@yahoo.com wrote: But everyone I know (including me) has had an SSD fail, usually with no explanation. So is this just chance, or ... are CF cards really a lot more reliable than SSD ? The following pages , and references in them , may

Why do I feel like compact flash is more reliable than SSD ?

2011-12-29 Thread UFS User
I have run a lot of different FreeBSD systems off (fileservers, firewalls, routers, etc.) off of compact flash cards[1] and have never had a CF part fail. Most of these were read-only mode, but some of them were left mounted 'rw' for years (with no swapping, of course).  The bottom line is,

Re: harddrive encryption

2011-01-18 Thread User Wojtek
/mnt/boot/loader.conf add vfs.root.mountfrom=ad0d.eli then reboot to single user mode after booting /sbin/mount /usr - should mount fine cd /usr ls and delete with rm -rf everything except usr subdirectory then mv usr/* . rm -rf usr cd / rm -rf boot ln -s /usr/boot . then press CTRL-D and you have

Lenovo G550

2011-01-15 Thread User Wojtek
anyone knows how to: - make it's touchpad usable? without any special software and used as mouse emulator it is very bad. The problem is that it quite often produces false clicks when you type on keyboard. Tried xf86-input-synaptics but it doesn't recognize the device (protocol psm, device

Re: FreeBSD 7 and 2 monitors

2009-03-31 Thread User Wblock
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, M. Vale wrote: Hi, I have 2 monitors (20 Asus) with a Radeon X1600/X1650 PRO configure with xrand and everything works ok. The resolution I'm using right now is 3360x1050. Now I've a brand new Asus 24 (MK241H), and I can use this monitor with the other asus. My

Re: Software installasion (Was: Re: Wine without X)

2009-03-29 Thread User Wblock
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009, Barnaby Scott wrote: Thanks for all the ideas about where to download/install custom apps - the one that appeals most at this stage is a jail, partly because I have never played with them, and I think I should progress my learning in that direction. However I find the other

Re: flash-9, 10 on FreeBSD

2008-10-28 Thread User Lenzi
Em Ter, 2008-10-28 às 07:41 -0700, Dánielisz László escreveu: Hello! I also had some fight with Adobe's Flash player, but unfortunately without success. I remaing curios about any solution. Laci Me too, I am using a market aproach, that is: I intend to persuade a notebook

Re: libncurses.so.6

2008-10-12 Thread User Lenzi
Hello... I have some time ago an issue with libncurses and openssl... I resolved things using the libncures (/usr/lib/libncurses.so) and ssl (/usr/lib/libssl.so) from the system, and I have never had problems since then. solution: I remove the package ncurses and openssl. and use the

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread User Lenzi
Em Qui, 2008-08-28 às 13:56 +0700, Olivier Nicole escreveu: Hello, Is there a command in FreeBSD that ejects a USB disk like in Windows? I mount the USB disk with automount daemone (amd). You have to umnount it using the umount command usually umount /mountpount does the tick if

Re: MTA advice ??

2008-08-24 Thread User Lenzi
I am very happy with: Sendmail (the one that comes with Freebsd...) and messagewall (in the ports). if you need, I can send you the 3 config files... that make it all happen. with this software you can: 1) receive email directly to your computer (provided that port 25 is open). 2) filter

MTA...

2008-08-24 Thread User Lenzi
Em Dom, 2008-08-24 às 14:06 -0400, pete escreveu: I have a hosted domain that recently changed their mail filtering. I am not happy with the new setup and am considering setting up my own. Looking for tips on setting up something on my freeBSD 6.1 box. My ISP is cablevision IO. Not sure

freebsd-update metadata signature fails

2008-08-18 Thread User Jks
What am i missing or doing incorrectly? Thanks, Jerry nutmeg# freebsd-update fetch Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 1 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 6.3-RELEASE from update1.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to

Re: [OT] Re: SCSI network

2008-04-01 Thread User Wojtek
May I ask how that works? Everything I've read about scsi is that the throughput determines the standard: so 320MB has a throughput of ~320MB. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scsi) there is a bit (exactly 8 times) difference between megabit and megabyte

Re: EVOLUTION SLOW START , a workaround

2008-03-16 Thread User Lenzi
I'm trying to use your patch but it fails to apply patch. It results in: ecerejo# patch -uspl /usr/home/webdude/patch.b File to patch: patch-gmodule::gmodule-dl.c 4 out of 4 hunks failed--saving rejects to patch-gmodule::gmodule-dl.c.rej OK, probably, it is because you did not put

Configuring a HP Laserjet 1018 USB printer on KDE

2008-02-28 Thread User Robert Falanga
First am new using freebsd and would like help getting the printer configured. After installing and staarting CUPS. When I go to SETTINGS Peripherals printers I get: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS

Re: Random driver for insanely old hardware

2008-02-11 Thread User Ota
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:07:14PM -0700, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 11 Feb 2008, User Ota wrote: I have a question, just out of totally pure curiosity about one particular piece of hardware. Today I was browsin around Value Village (big giant thrift department store in Canada) here

Random driver for insanely old hardware

2008-02-11 Thread User Ota
I have a question, just out of totally pure curiosity about one particular piece of hardware. Today I was browsin around Value Village (big giant thrift department store in Canada) here in Sudbury, and I came across A GCC Technologies UltraDrive 50R, SCSI based and external -- from 1990. Now

Re: Random driver for insanely old hardware

2008-02-11 Thread User Ota
On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 09:10:13PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: User Ota writes: Today I was browsin around Value Village (big giant thrift department store in Canada) here in Sudbury, and I came across A GCC Technologies UltraDrive 50R, SCSI based and external -- from 1990

Re: 7.0 RC2

2008-02-09 Thread User Ota
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:13:27PM -0600, Chris wrote: I see that the ISO is there! Not updated on the site yet! :P Wonder what's new in this RC release, gonna test it in vmware and maybe qemu :D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread User Ota
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:12:40PM -0700, cpghost wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:01:53AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: I'd suggest looking into a real object oriented language, rather than a systems programming language like C, or a glue language like Perl. I personally think Smalltalk is

Re: 7.0 installation problem

2008-02-04 Thread FreeBSD User
from ufs:/dev/ad12s1a On 1/30/08, Jonathan Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 09:53:14AM -0500, FreeBSD User wrote: [...] Problem 2: I cannot get X started. I get the following errors: Failed to load module nv (module does not exist, 0) Failed to load module

7.0 installation problem

2008-01-30 Thread FreeBSD User
Hello, I have tried installing FreeBSD 7.0-Current for amd64, and I am having problems with my mouse and video card. My hardware is as follows: Gigabyte p35-ds3r motherboard Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4GHz (Q6600) NVidia 8400GS Microsoft Comfort Optical 3000 mouse Microsoft Natural Ergonomic Keyboard

When is 7.0 being released?

2008-01-16 Thread FreeBSD User
Hello, Does anybody have an idea when 7.0 will be released? It looks like the schedule hasn't been updated, and it was scheduled for January 14th. Where can I find additional information? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

make buildworld fails. Whats wrong?

2007-12-26 Thread User Elph
I have updated a /usr/src from cvs-repositary. But buildworld fails with error code 1 in /usr/src/lib/ libcomm_err/doc. com_err.info - not found. whats wrong? PS. I have installed a FreeBSD-7.0 - BETA4. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: freenx server

2007-12-22 Thread User Ota
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 10:41:59AM -0600, Jack Barnett wrote: Anyone get the freeNX server working from nomachine? When I try to build it from /usr/ports/net/freenx it says it is broken under xorg 7.2 I've upgrade to xorg 7.3.x and modified the make file and it builds everything but

Re: xclients and remote display (WAS: Re: freenx server)

2007-12-22 Thread User Ota
On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 03:40:48AM -0600, Jack Barnett wrote: Thanks, yea, but I don't think he's maintaining it any longer? In ports it's version 1.4.x, but nomachine.com has latest version has 3.5.x My friend emailed nomachine.com and he said they refused to support any of

Re: cvsup not getting 'everything' with standard-supfile?

2007-12-19 Thread User Ota
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 03:43:21PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I see folks talking about building snd_hda on 6.2, but when I cvsup, /usr/src/sys/modules/sound/driver/hda doesn't exist. I'm using an unmodified (except for the url) standard-supfile, which has src-all in big letters uncommented

Re: common filesystem for Linux and FreeBSD

2007-12-18 Thread User Ota
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 03:17:00AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote: On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 11:06:15AM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: I generally shy away from any multiboot situation since I have few machines with me. Even then I too have to multiboot once in a while. I prefer to avoid

msttf?

2007-10-20 Thread User Roberth
Is /usr/ports/chinese/msttf the right port of microsofts truetype fonts? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Build transmission with gtk+ support

2007-10-20 Thread User Roberth
Hello, anyone sucsessfully installed transmission with gtk+ support from ports? [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/ports/net-p2p/transmission]# make install clean You may specify the following on the command line: WITHOUT_OPENSSL=yes to disable OpenSSL support, using built-in SHA1 implementation. Warning,

ugly fonts in epiphany

2007-10-20 Thread User Roberth
Sorry if come with a lot of newbie questions to this mailing list, fonts in epiphany doesn't use xft, what port miss xft support, anyone know? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

named-bind-9

2007-09-17 Thread User Iam
HI I am having problems with my zone file... There used to be a command to run and check zone files/Named files.. I can't seem to locate it...?? Anyone have a clue?? TIA User Iam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

zone

2007-09-11 Thread User Iam
Hi Where are the zone files located?? TIA me ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

4gb address space limitation for i386

2007-08-30 Thread User Bobby
I have an IBM xSeries 350 4xPIII with 5.5gb of RAM, and see that only about 3.5gb is being used under the i386 port. I've been looking through the archives to try and figure out what the root of the problem is and I amn't quite sure I know which part of the situation is the real problem. Is it

portupgrade 'upgrades' ports that are not installed

2007-08-02 Thread User Nocturnal
Hi First of all i just went through the UPDATING instructions to upgrade my xorg to 7.2. It did not go very well because i can't finish the upgrade process. When i try to pkg_delete xorg-manpages it says they're required by the xorg-6.9 port. Now as far as i can see everything i'm running is

HP 2605 printer and FreeBSD.

2007-05-28 Thread FreeBSD User Giacomo
if effectively it is therefore.. Thanks. -- Isaia Luciano FreeBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

openvpn on freebsd problem

2007-05-26 Thread User Pjf
Hello list: I install openvpn from port. Follow openvpn.net howto, vpn can connect from client to server, but on client side, I cann't ping server side other machines. On my server side, vpn server and gateway is same one box, I use dev tun, the server has a public static ip address, install

Belkin omiview KVM

2007-05-24 Thread User Iam
Hi I have a Belkin omniview KVM I lost my manual. Can't find the manual on the website.. I know scroll_lockscrool_lock up/down will move me around.. Google wasn't helping me Or I missed it somehow.. I need to change the legends on the channels.. TIA User Iam

Half-Duplex

2007-05-22 Thread User Iam
HI How do I force my nic card to half-duplex.. I have read the man page and it is probably there and I just didn't recognize it... TIA User Iam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

7 install

2007-05-08 Thread User Iam
Hi I am doing a fresh install of 7.0 When I get the part when it asks for install media. I select cd/dvd disk And It claims it can't find it??? This is the disk I booted off TIA User Iam ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Suggestions for an antispam.

2007-04-27 Thread FreeBSD User Giacomo
Hi, I would want a suggestion for an antispam for my email. I use getmail-procmail-mutt in order to receive the mail. Thanks. -- Isaia Luciano FreeBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd

Re: I need help with external USB DVD writer.

2007-03-19 Thread FreeBSD User Giacomo
for your help. -- Isaia Luciano FreeBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I need help with external USB DVD writer.

2007-03-19 Thread FreeBSD User Giacomo
/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi. How to apply this patch on FreeBSD 6.1? I must recompile the kernel? Thank for your help. -- Isaia Luciano FreeBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

I need help with external USB DVD writer.

2007-03-18 Thread FreeBSD User Giacomo
PROTECTED] chalmers.se, version 6.0. :-( (unable to GET CONFIGURATION: Input/output error and on the consul: umass0: Unsupported ATAPI command 0x46. With another external drive LG this is OK. I don't know that what happens. Some suggestions? Thanks. -- Isaia Luciano FreeBSD user

Samsung DVD writer.

2007-03-12 Thread FreeBSD User Giacomo
PROTECTED] chalmers.se, version 6.0. :-( (unable to GET CONFIGURATION: Input/output error and on the consul: umass0: Unsupported ATAPI command 0x46. Some idea? Thanks. -- Isaia Luciano FreeBSD user ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300 and FreeBSD 5.5

2006-08-26 Thread User Tomdean
I tried installing FreeBSD 5.5 from the subscription CD on a Toshiba Satellite Pro 4300. I previously had FreeBSD 4.1 on this machine. All options in the boot menu hang at the same place (the last two are N/A in this case). I tried setting hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 and boot -v -c. Hangs. I tried

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-06 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, Garrett Cooper wrote: I know I may be overachieving a bit in my overall thoughts of this plan, but why not do something similar for the rest of the BSDs and/or Linux/Solaris? I find this a good statistical tool for determining how many desktops run what form of Unix, so

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-06 Thread User Freebsd
--- -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 User Freebsd wrote: John pointed out a bug that I hadn't noticed, mainly because I was testing single host ... basically, I installed PHP5 on the backend, and stupidly didn't check

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-06 Thread User Freebsd
Just added 'country' stats to the mix, to see what our distribution is per country ... On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, User Freebsd wrote: I just threw up a couple of very simple tables, showing # of systems reporting in this month, as well as a break down of release / architecture for those

Re: so for kicks, i just ...

2006-08-06 Thread User Freebsd
On Sun, 6 Aug 2006, Jonathan Horne wrote: i just decided to take a box, and installworld, without going to single user mode. from what i can see, the update was completely successful. of course, other then myself (su'd to root), there were no other users logged in). i wonder how many people

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-05 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, John Nielsen wrote: Here is a sample (working) port. Un-tar the archive under ports/sysutils. It installs the script to ${LOCALBASE}/etc/periodic/monthly and prints a message about how to enable it. Have a look at it, edit all the text entries to make them your own (in

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-05 Thread User Freebsd
/monthly, thanks to John there too ... no changes to the script itself have been made yet, just a fix on the backend ... Will work on adding pciconf support in next ... On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, User Freebsd wrote: On Sat, 5 Aug 2006, John Nielsen wrote: Here is a sample (working) port. Un-tar

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the system or even how many there are. It doesn't tell you exactly what sort of memory or disk drives the system uses

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs are in the system or even how many

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: On 4/08/2006 3:17 AM, User Freebsd wrote: On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Matthew Seaman wrote: This is cool and all, but why are the concentration solely on PCI devices? pciconf output doesn't tell you directly what CPUs

Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, John-Mark Gurney wrote: User Freebsd wrote this message on Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 22:44 -0300: For those that haven't been following the discussion on this, the iir(4) driver in FreeBSD 6.x appears to have a deadlock issue under medium to heavy load, where the 'blocked' state

BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
'k folks ... the quick and dirty .. actually, not too dirty ... The attached script goes into /etc/periodic/monthly (and can be run from the command line) and is the *very* barebones ... it reports operating system and architecture ... it will return a unique id at the same time which will

Re: BSDstats Project v1.0

2006-08-04 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: 'k folks ... the quick and dirty .. actually, not too dirty ... The attached script [...] Can you make this into a port which users can install? I'm not sure, can I? Can ports install into /etc/periodic? Or is there some

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: Agreed... I could probably add around 1,500 systems that could conceivably be setup to chime in with their numbers periodically; one of the pre-requisites for that would be that the access method be HTTP or HTTPS based so it could be relayed via a

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maybe it's just because I've been reading up on it but what about outputting the information in XML??? Then you could tag the Vendor, Name, basic info, number of users, etc. in a tagged form that could be then stored in a Dbase of some kind by

Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
Okay, there has been alot of discussion on this in the other thread, some of it tangent'd to the original, so, I'm starting off a new thread as a sort of summary ... I've been doing some thinking on it this afternoon, and think I've figured out about the simpliest way of doing it ... it

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
Sweet, thanks ... On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Philip Hallstrom wrote: pciconf -lv needs to be parsed, this being the hard step, into a string that can be sent via HTTP ... this is the hard part because it has to be done as/in a shell script ... anyone out there *really* good at shell programming?

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Boris Samorodov wrote: Hi Marc, On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 18:30:08 -0300 (ADT) you wrote: Okay, there has been alot of discussion on this in the other thread, some of it tangent'd to the original, so, I'm starting off a new thread as a sort of summary ... Great idea, but

Re: Stand up and be counted - BSDStats Project

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Personally I don't think this stuff should be tracked in any centralized fashion. I don't particullarly like when our freedom to choose to do something is tracked or monitored; because it is no longer a freedom. Maybe that is just paranoia

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: On 4/08/2006 4:58 AM, User Freebsd wrote: Getting a list of devices is actually pretty easy, and I've tried this on my 4.x machines also, so it isn't something that will be a problem on older versions: # pciconf -l [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0: class

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-03 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 4 Aug 2006, Antony Mawer wrote: All of the expanded 'vendor', 'device', 'class' and 'subclass' information is present in the non -v version of the command output. The numbers shown earlier can be used to derive the text information: class=0x010400 determines the

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the FreeBSD main page... or registration in sysinstall. Isn't this how everyone else handles the problem? User A installs FreeBSD, registers, works with it for a week, finds he

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/08/02 15:37, User Freebsd seems to have typed: On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the FreeBSD main page... or registration in sysinstall. Isn't this how everyone

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Let me say it again. There are three problems we are trying to solve. a. Bandwidth. Bandwidth, IMHO, isn't that big of an issue ... the ramp up time for this, IMHO, will be slow, so the bandwidth usage will be a gradual increase ... b.

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Counting portsnap and cvsup accesses is non-intrusive - i.e. nothing sent from local host - will count systems from any version of FreeBSD, but will never count everything because sites

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Gerard Seibert wrote: Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: But one can't rely on that. You'll definitely see more than one ip associated with my laptop, if I move it around. A more reliable way that I can think of is generating a unique ID number when a system finishes installation or

Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hi! On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a suitable replacement for the card

Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Christian Brueffer wrote: On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:49:27PM -0300, User Freebsd wrote: I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as most ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing endless headaches ... Official word from Adaptec

Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
as such ... On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, User Freebsd wrote: 'k, I finally got ahold of someone @ adaptec, and the official word seems to be: FreeBSD 6 is not officially supported for the GDT based ICP RAID controllers. Nevertheless the inbox driver should work. Great, well, the inbox driver doesn't work

iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: Hello! On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 09:51:59AM +0200, Patrick M. Hausen wrote: That's really really bad news. Oddly, ICP Vortex Germany told me the opposite wr/t to their new line of cards. They said, they were working on full FreeBSD support. I'll

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: Generating a unique anonymous key is easy, proving why we need it is not. If you want to make accurate #s, you need to make sure that a host doesn't send in multiple reports, which means you need a unique key for each host ... IP doesn't work,

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 7/31/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Chris Whitehouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alex Zbyslaw wrote: Counting portsnap and cvsup accesses is non-intrusive - i.e. nothing sent from local host

Re: [IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Rico Secada wrote: On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 22:44:01 -0300 (ADT) User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seems to me like the best solution is to boykott Adaptec like OpenBSD did. Actually, based on the thread going on on -stable right now, from ppl that are talking to Adaptec

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Robert Huff wrote: User Freebsd writes: Actually, using ifconfig wouldn't work ... it would give unique, but as soon as you add another IP (ie. alias), the ID would change ... you'd need to do something like: ifconfig | grep ether | sha256 | md5 since the 'ether

Re: iir(4) driver (Was: Re: Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT851...)

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Scott Long wrote: Ok guys, time for a small breather here. All these claims about EoE and orphanage and whatnot are a bit premature and underinformed. First, the iir driver is being worked on when the need arises. Several bugs were fixed in it a few months ago, and until

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/1/06, Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not just add in the patch in kern/65627 and run the CPU serial number through your hash? Because you can still fake the dam thing, making the whole idea useless!!! Am I the only one that can

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/1/06, Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: User Freebsd writes: Actually, using ifconfig wouldn't work ... it would give unique, but as soon as you add another IP (ie. alias), the ID would change ... you'd need to do something like

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: Ok.. lets start from the top, again. Why do we need uniqueness? We want to count each host reporting *once* ... without uniqueness per host, how are you going to know whether to update a hosts record, instead of add it as a new host? Marc G.

Re: spamfilter

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
If you want a truly user-friendly spam/virus solution, check out: http://www.renaissoft.com/maia/ I have this backing 200 VPS, including postgresql.org itself, and its literally a dream, as it allows *each user* to individually tailor their settings ... On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Olivier

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-01 Thread User Freebsd
On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/1/06, User Freebsd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: Ok.. lets start from the top, again. Why do we need uniqueness? We want to count each host reporting *once* ... without uniqueness per host, how are you

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: Approximately 15000 portsnap snapshots (i.e., /var/db/portsnap or /usr/local/portsnap directories) are being kept updated on systems which send HTTP requests to portsnap*.freebsd.org

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Svein Halvor Halvorsen wrote: Colin Percival wrote: There are still a lot of people (particularly on pre-6.0 systems) who are using CVSup rather than portsnap for updating their ports trees. Also, I would guess that some people who run multiple FreeBSD systems, use some

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: On Jul 30, 2006, at 8:42 PM, User Freebsd wrote: On Sun, 30 Jul 2006, Colin Percival wrote: User Freebsd wrote: We can also collect the access information of the cvsup server and portsnap server, can't we? What does that give

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
On Mon, 31 Jul 2006, Alex Zbyslaw wrote: But this will then only count from the first version(s) of FreeBSD which contain the periodic job. Then every machine running an earlier release would be a ghost. Agreed, but any active counting will fail dealing with older machines, regardless ...

Safe card to replace for ICP Vortex GDT8514RZ ...

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
I have a remote server, running the above RAID controller, that, as most ppl here have seen over the past few weeks, is causing endless headaches ... Official word from Adaptec is that FreeBSD is no longer a supported platform, so, I either live with the deadlocks, or try and figure out a

[IMPORTANT] Adaptec no longer supporting iir(4) driver ...

2006-07-31 Thread User Freebsd
'k, I finally got ahold of someone @ adaptec, and the official word seems to be: FreeBSD 6 is not officially supported for the GDT based ICP RAID controllers. Nevertheless the inbox driver should work. Great, well, the inbox driver doesn't work with FreeBSD 6.x, and support doesn't exist

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: My shop runs 30+ FreeBSD hosts, and I have several more for personal use. But of those there are maybe 2-3 that I would be ok with listing and exactly zero that I will actually list. It's not that I don't want to help, but I'm not going to run a

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: The only way this idea will work is if we put some code in the base system that sends something generic every few months. for example. Send 'uname -mr' to stats.freebsd.org every 3 months. It would be very easy to 'opt out', perhaps stats_enable=NO

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-07-30 Thread User Freebsd
On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: Yes and no. Not all cvsup servers are under the control of the FreeBSD project but you are right, they could log the release tag and more. Also don't forget about website stats, mailing list subscriptions, and ftp servers. None of which

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