Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

2007-09-19 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi everybody, I'm building my 1st FreeBSD-based box. Yay, I guess ;-p I've already installed Berkeley DB v46 from the Ports system. Now, I'ts on to MySQL server. I can easily build manually from source, configuring whatever I need. But, I'm trying to get the Ports system's knobs figured out

troubles with attach too big HDD through USB

2007-09-19 Thread Andrew Wingorodov
my sata - usb ext. box (vipower VPA) can't attach a new big 500gb wdc. he writes: kernel: da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 kernel: (da0:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error

Re: troubles with attach too big HDD through USB

2007-09-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, Andrew Wingorodov wrote: my sata - usb ext. box (vipower VPA) can't attach a new big 500gb wdc. he writes: kernel: da0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present is the drive really up and running? Does it work on any other machine via USB with any other

Dovecot LDA help

2007-09-19 Thread Peter Pluta
I'm redoing my mail setup and am having some issues. I'm having dspam send mail directly to dovecot for delivery. I've read the dovecot wiki extrensivly and manged to get a config file from a friend that has it setup this way, but I am still unable to get it working. Here is my config for

Re: Query: SAS Multi-pathing support on 6.2

2007-09-19 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Tuesday 18 September 2007 18:28, V.SriSaiGanesh wrote: Does FreeBSD 6.2 supports SAS multi-pathing. Yes, there is geom_fox. The BUGS sections mentions: The geom_fox framework has only seen light testing. There definitely might be dragons here. Do your own evaluation.

Re: Does FreeBSD support UTF-8 locale well?

2007-09-19 Thread Ivan Voras
ronggui wrote: In terms of UTF-8 support, Linux seems better than FreeBSD. How do you guys think? Yes. FreeBSD's UTF-8 support is really bad, and it's practically nonexistant when you look at things like collation. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly

Re: hardware reality check - server

2007-09-19 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:37:46 -0400 (EDT) kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: motherboard: Supermicro X7DVL-L Xeon 5000V Server Board(MB4284) with: INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 1Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5335 Processor 2.0GHz 1333MHz(CP1149) INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 2Intel Quad-Core

Cron not working till 28/08/07

2007-09-19 Thread DSA - JCR
Hi all !! I had several crontab jobs in order to make backups. All worked fine till the 28-Aug-2007 when it seems to be stopped for some reason, I don't know why. I had a reporting in my mail box (external) also with daily, weekly and monthly reports, but suddenly all stopped (I don't receive

FreeBSD constantly hanging

2007-09-19 Thread Deceased
Hi, I have a serious problem, that I cannot solve my self :( I have freebsd 6.2 router that has 3 NICs (lan, wan, dmz), suddenly (about two weeks ago) it started to hang without leaving anything in logs. I thought that it was hardware problem. So at first I changed motherboard, ram, cpu,

RE: Cron not working till 28/08/07

2007-09-19 Thread Matthijs Breemans
Hello, Can you give some more info, like posting te crontab? Matthijs -Oorspronkelijk bericht - Van: DSA - JCR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Aan: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Verzonden: 19-9-07 14:36 Onderwerp: Cron not working till 28/08/07 Hi all !! I had several crontab jobs in order to make

Re: Cron not working till 28/08/07

2007-09-19 Thread Harry Matthiesen Jensen
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:36:07PM -, DSA - JCR wrote: I had several crontab jobs in order to make backups. All worked fine till the 28-Aug-2007 when it seems to be stopped for some reason, I don't know why. Does the command whereis crontab give you any feedback? Performed a buildworld

Re: Cron not working till 28/08/07

2007-09-19 Thread RW
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:36:07 - (GMT) DSA - JCR [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all !! I had several crontab jobs in order to make backups. All worked fine till the 28-Aug-2007 when it seems to be stopped for some reason, I don't know why. I had a reporting in my mail box (external) also

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread P.U.Kruppa
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Kris Kennaway wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its

Re: Cron not working till 28/08/07

2007-09-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:36 AM 9/19/2007, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all !! I had several crontab jobs in order to make backups. All worked fine till the 28-Aug-2007 when it seems to be stopped for some reason, I don't know why. I had a reporting in my mail box (external) also with daily, weekly and monthly reports,

Re: 6.2 Headless Installs Don't Seem to Work.

2007-09-19 Thread Watanabe Kazuhiro
Hi, At Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:32:07 -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: As a computer user who happens to be blind, I have always wanted to use the headless installation method to build FreeBSD systems. After FreeBSD version 5, things seemed to go a bit wrong and I am trying to figure out

update to 7.0

2007-09-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
if i will update to freebsd 7.0 server running many jails, can jails run having 6.2p7 binaries unchanged? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Xorg 7.3, nvidia 8600, FreeBSD 7.x

2007-09-19 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Hi, $portupgrade -R xorg grep Composite /etc/X11/xorg.conf Option Composite false alias startx alias startx='startx -- -ignoreABI' AFAIK my nvidia driver was not updated during this process; however, I'm using dual monitors with this card. grep Xineram /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Re: troubles with attach too big HDD through USB

2007-09-19 Thread Andrew Wingorodov
2007/9/19, Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does it work on any other machine via USB with any other operating system? muzdie did't see 500GB disk through USB too. actually, this problem with ext. USB interface. this is very strange, two another hdd (250GB and 320GB) works good. never mind

Asus P5x fan control?

2007-09-19 Thread Howard Goldstein
Has anyone encountered a utility or sysctl knob to access the fan speed controller (657DHG) on the Asus P5x motherboard series? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Howard Goldstein
P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date. It is strongly

Re: hardware reality check - server

2007-09-19 Thread kalin mintchev
On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:37:46 -0400 (EDT) kalin mintchev [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: motherboard: Supermicro X7DVL-L Xeon 5000V Server Board(MB4284) with: INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 1 Intel Quad-Core Xeon E5335 Processor 2.0GHz 1333MHz(CP1149) INTEL® CPU PROCESSOR 2 Intel Quad-Core

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri
On 9/19/07, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is

Re: FreeBSD constantly hanging

2007-09-19 Thread Emanuel Marufo
It seems hardware trouble, maybe NICS, working in promisc mode. Maybe the video controller, and etc, etc, i need more information about your hardware, and your config. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Sendmail out to port 2525

2007-09-19 Thread Jack Stone
Am using FBSD-6.2p7 Sendmail-8.13.8 I spent several days trying different configs to relay mail from my sendmail relay received from another relay using postfix -- to a Windows server only listening on port 2525. So far no luck and all attempts to relay to the Windows server shows service

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread NetOpsCenter
Kris Kennaway wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching its End-of-Life date.

Re: Cron not working till 28/08/07

2007-09-19 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hi, On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 12:36:07PM -, DSA - JCR wrote: Hi all !! I had several crontab jobs in order to make backups. All worked fine till the 28-Aug-2007 when it seems to be stopped for some reason, I don't know why. I had a reporting in my mail box (external) also with daily,

Re: Sendmail out to port 2525

2007-09-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-19 12:53, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am using FBSD-6.2p7 Sendmail-8.13.8 I spent several days trying different configs to relay mail from my sendmail relay received from another relay using postfix -- to a Windows server only listening on port 2525. So far no luck and all

swfdec-mozilla not auto playing

2007-09-19 Thread Aryeh Friedman
How do I make swfdec-mozilla automatically start all flash objects instead of having to click on the flash frame? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Do you need to rebuild ports after 7-Current upgrade?

2007-09-19 Thread Aline de Freitas
Citando Philip M. Gollucci [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Brent Jones wrote: Good morning - After a 6.2 to 7-Current FreeBSD upgrade, do you need to rebuild your ports? If you have all the compat*x libraries installed you might not need to. But if you don't, things will use the old libraries and not the

Re: FreeBSD constantly hanging

2007-09-19 Thread Deceased
Emanuel Marufo wrote: It seems hardware trouble, maybe NICS, working in promisc mode. Maybe the video controller, and etc, etc, i need more information about your hardware, and your config. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

RE: Sendmail out to port 2525

2007-09-19 Thread Jack Stone
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:34:54 +0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail out to port 2525 On 2007-09-19 12:53, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am using FBSD-6.2p7 Sendmail-8.13.8 I spent several days trying

Re: is there any way of turning muttrc list into an evolution or other mail alias database?

2007-09-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 04:31:53PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Google says something about evo being able to import ldif files. Abook can convert mutt's aliases into ldif. I'll google for it; thanks for the tip. Thanks to Andrew's posting I did find a few references on

Re: CDRW Stopped Working Moving to 6.x

2007-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 07:35:24AM -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: Crist J. Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looking at the dmesg(1) from the last boot, # fgrep cd0 /var/run/dmesg.boot acd0: CDROM CRD-8400B/1.06 at ata1-master UDMA33 Makes

Re: tunnel ipsec whith racoon2-20070720a

2007-09-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
ckd ckd [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: hi, i'm looking for some experience using racoon2 to create tunnel IPSEC between 2 freebsd 6.2 gateways. i followed the procedure described in freebsd handbook, but whne i start iked, i get the follow message : iked: [INTERNAL ERR]:

CDROM TSST Corp DVD +/- RW TS-H653A

2007-09-19 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
I have a dell demension 9200 with CDROM TSST Corp DVD +/- RW TS-H653A freebsd doesn't like it at all -- is it just me. Can I change something to make it work or am I just screwed. Its freebsd 7.0-current -- Philip M.

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
NetOpsCenter wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: P.U.Kruppa wrote: On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Charles Bacon wrote: I installed FreeBSD-RELEASE6.2 last January, and wonder if there will be a 6.3. Just discovered freebsd-update(8), tried it out, and saw: WARNING: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE is approaching

Re: php failing

2007-09-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Answer: Because it makes conversations flow in a nonsensical order. Question: Why is top-posting wrong? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I have been using apache, PHP and mysql for years with no problems. I just suffered a computer crash and my backup failed, so I

Re: FreeBSD constantly hanging

2007-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Deceased wrote: Hi, I have a serious problem, that I cannot solve my self :( I have freebsd 6.2 router that has 3 NICs (lan, wan, dmz), suddenly (about two weeks ago) it started to hang without leaving anything in logs. I thought that it was hardware problem. So at first I changed

Join the UK's larges growing Caravan Park Database for FREE

2007-09-19 Thread Chris Stevens
CaravanUser has been set up with lottery funding to help create a database of caravan parks throughout Europe that are suitable for disabled people and people who find walking difficult. If you have not already done so, please spare 3 minutes to enter your parks or caravan business details

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Josh Carroll
Thanks for the feedback. It's always good to hear it works fine anti-bug-reports :) Kris This is getting a bit off topic, so pardon me. :) I picked a bad time to try to move to 7-CURRENT, just after the gcc 4.2.1 integration. Many ports would not compile properly, etc. I hope that stabilizes

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Josh Carroll wrote: Thanks for the feedback. It's always good to hear it works fine anti-bug-reports :) Kris This is getting a bit off topic, so pardon me. :) I picked a bad time to try to move to 7-CURRENT, just after the gcc 4.2.1 integration. Many ports would not compile properly, etc. I

Re: Sendmail out to port 2525

2007-09-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-19 14:06, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 21:34:54 +0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail out to port 2525 On 2007-09-19 12:53, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Am using

RE: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Matthijs Breemans
Kris, Is that url correct? Website doesn't show up here. And a traceroute dies somewhere @ yahoo (From the Netherlands) Regards, Matthijs -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Kris Kennaway Verzonden: woensdag 19 september 2007 22:59 Aan:

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Matthijs Breemans wrote: Kris, Is that url correct? Website doesn't show up here. And a traceroute dies somewhere @ yahoo (From the Netherlands) Regards, Matthijs -Oorspronkelijk bericht- Van: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Kris Kennaway Verzonden: woensdag 19

Support for LSI SAS 1068?

2007-09-19 Thread Don Smith
Is the LSI SAS 1068 controller (non-RAID) supported (it is used in the Dell 5/i integrated SAS on the PowerEdge 2950)? If so, what driver? Thanks. -- F. Donelson Smith (Don) (919) 962-1884 Research Professor [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of

Re: Philosophy of default pkg_add -r PACKAGESITE?

2007-09-19 Thread Gary Affonso
First off, thanks to Kris and Mel for the previous definitive answers. Let me see if I can summarize this correctly... 1) It's important that administrators who are taking advantage of pre-compiled packages (like me) use packages that have been compiled for their particular base system. 2)

Re: flash plugin after xorg update

2007-09-19 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
so I googled.. and found that this flash thing could result from one of two reasons, 1. composite extension might be internally made On, I add Composite false to my xorg.conf 2. change depth from 16 to 24. I did all of them, and now the flash is back on..at least i can watch mlbtv.. :-) TFC On

X11 keyboard

2007-09-19 Thread Richard Tobin
I'm using a Mac mini, and the keyboard is wrong in various ways under X (apart from the usual unwanted caps lock, keys like tilde are wrong). What is the right way to fix this? I'm using Xorg 7.2. -- Richard ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

RE: Sendmail out to port 2525

2007-09-19 Thread Jack Stone
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:11:32 +0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail out to port 2525 On 2007-09-19 14:06, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can barely read this sort of quoted email. Something in hotmail or in the

Re: Sendmail out to port 2525

2007-09-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-09-19 17:36, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 00:11:32 +0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sendmail out to port 2525 On 2007-09-19 14:06, Jack Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can

Re: Dovecot LDA help

2007-09-19 Thread Gerard
On September 19, 2007 at 03:35AM Peter Pluta wrote: I'm redoing my mail setup and am having some issues. I'm having dspam send mail directly to dovecot for delivery. I've read the dovecot wiki extrensivly and manged to get a config file from a friend that has it setup this way, but I am

Re: End-of-life for my amd64 ?

2007-09-19 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Matthijs Breemans wrote: Kris, Is that url correct? Website doesn't show up here. And a traceroute Take a look on http://pointyhat.freebsd.org to see if your favourite ports are currently broken. It is. Its the first search result if you type pointhat into google.com

Hard drive RPM

2007-09-19 Thread jekillen
Hello; Is there a utility for measuring the effective RPM of a hard disk? A software tackometer? I have IDE drives, SATA drives, both 7200 and 10,000 RPM, as well as SCSI disks that are supposed to be running at 15k RPM. I noticed that on the hard drive labels, those on the disk case itself do

Re: Hard drive RPM

2007-09-19 Thread Derek Ragona
At 07:47 PM 9/19/2007, jekillen wrote: Hello; Is there a utility for measuring the effective RPM of a hard disk? A software tackometer? I have IDE drives, SATA drives, both 7200 and 10,000 RPM, as well as SCSI disks that are supposed to be running at 15k RPM. I noticed that on the hard drive

Re: Hard drive RPM

2007-09-19 Thread Rob
Derek Ragona wrote: Run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility to check the drives speed and performance. Most of these utilities also give you the drive model and serial number as well. Look for a self-booting version that is a cd-rom ISO, these usually run FreeDOS to easily access the

Re: cron not working till 28/08/07

2007-09-19 Thread Bill Vermillion
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 21:46 , after knocking over a stack of dishes on the heat sink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wondered out loud about: Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 12:36:07 - (GMT) From: DSA - JCR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cron not working till 28/08/07 Hi all !! I had several crontab jobs in

GAIM??

2007-09-19 Thread Gary Kline
Folks, On my ubuntu srver I've used gaim for quite awhile. When I looked for it with locate on my new server the file said it was going away by fall. Is there ea new, improved port? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public

Re: GAIM??

2007-09-19 Thread Josh Carroll
On my ubuntu srver I've used gaim for quite awhile. When I looked for it with locate on my new server the file said it was going away by fall. Is there ea new, improved port? gary It was renamed to pidgin, which is in ports here: /usr/ports/net-im/pidgin

Re: GAIM??

2007-09-19 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 20 September 2007 01:33:38 Gary Kline wrote: Folks, On my ubuntu srver I've used gaim for quite awhile. When I looked for it with locate on my new server the file said it was going away by fall. Is there ea new, improved port? gary Isn't the new

Re: Hard drive RPM

2007-09-19 Thread jekillen
On Sep 19, 2007, at 6:07 PM, Rob wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: Run the manufacturer's diagnostic utility to check the drives speed and performance. Most of these utilities also give you the drive model and serial number as well. Look for a self-booting version that is a cd-rom ISO, these

Re: GAIM??

2007-09-19 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 01:42:05AM +, Duane Hill wrote: On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 at 18:33 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Folks, On my ubuntu srver I've used gaim for quite awhile. When I looked for it with locate on my new server the file said it was going

Re: GAIM??

2007-09-19 Thread Duane Hill
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 at 18:33 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: Folks, On my ubuntu srver I've used gaim for quite awhile. When I looked for it with locate on my new server the file said it was going away by fall. Is there ea new, improved port? It has

Re: GAIM??

2007-09-19 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 20 September 2007 02:16:53 Gary Kline wrote: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gaim/ thanks to all you gents... i was going to ask why the name change but it'll probly be with the src, luke. (.5-hearted ha ha) I read somewhere that AOL asked for the name change.

switching between WAPs

2007-09-19 Thread C Thala
I have two primary WAPs that I connect to on my FreeBSD desktop, my rc.conf contains these entries: ifconfig_ipw0=ssid wap1 DHCP ifconfig_ipw0=ssid wap2 DHCP The problem is that depending on which place I am at, I have to boot up, have networking fail, edit the rc.conf file, comment out

RE: Hard drive RPM

2007-09-19 Thread Brent Jones
As far as the 120gig != 111gig discrepancy, it sounds like the drive manufacturer use 1 gig = 1,000,000,000 bytes instead of 1,073,741,824 bytes for their advertising. It looks better on the box. It gets messy with drive advertisements as there's no required standard for how they advertise a

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 18), Aliya Harbouri said: Building the databases/mysql50-server Port, I see (they'er all in Makefile, yes?) my choices for knob-settings in make.conf are: WITH_OPENSSL=true WITH_PROC_SCOPE_PTH=yes BUILD_OPTIMIZED=yes WITH_INNODB=yes WITHOUT_ARCHIVE=true

Software

2007-09-19 Thread Kellen Dale
I was wondering what kind of software freeBSD can support. I am currently a windows user but I would like to switch to a Unix operating system. The one thing that I am concerned about however, is that since I am still a student I must have access to software that will allow me to make/view word

Re: Software

2007-09-19 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, iTunes will be the killer application which will keep you with Windows. I have not seen on FreeBSD. There is actually more software available for FreeBSD than for Windows if you work in the fields of science or engineering. Some ports are now ported so that they can support Windows.

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

2007-09-19 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi Dan! (1) Turn OFF use of BDB completely. The build seems to default to the bundled BDB Mysql 5.0's configure script doesn't seem to have a --without-bdb flag, so it always gets built. (2) Use the Port install of BDB v46 I mentioned above. It does have a --with-berkeley-db=DIR

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

2007-09-19 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 19), Aliya Harbouri said: (1) Turn OFF use of BDB completely. The build seems to default to the bundled BDB Mysql 5.0's configure script doesn't seem to have a --without-bdb flag, so it always gets built. (2) Use the Port install of BDB v46 I mentioned

Re: Software

2007-09-19 Thread RW
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 19:17:51 -0700 Kellen Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also, I need to be able to run iTunes for my iPod. Are really sure? Amarok, and probably other software, has ipod support. It's worth dual-booting for a few weeks to find out what you actually need. You do need to make

Re: Software

2007-09-19 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:37:31 +0800 Erich Dollansky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iTunes will be the killer application which will keep you with Windows. depending, of course, how you use it... if you only use mp3s, there are other non-apple tools to manage your ipod. not sure how aac files would be

Re: Hard drive RPM

2007-09-19 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 19 Sep 2007 17:47:19 -0700 jekillen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a utility for measuring the effective RPM of a hard disk? A software tackometer? not sure, ultimatebootcd , as it has been suggested, may have some answers. For reference, just get the drive model and get the full

Re: Software

2007-09-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 07:17:51PM -0700, Kellen Dale wrote: I was wondering what kind of software freeBSD can support. I am currently a windows user but I would like to switch to a Unix operating system. What you could do is install FreeBSD inside a virtual machine like Qemu, to get some

Re: Which knobs do I use to control BDB use in MySQL-server port?

2007-09-19 Thread Aliya Harbouri
Hi Dan! I just tried it and it looks like that does disable bdb. I never noticed that line in the Makefile before :) Well, you'd think it should. But even with, grep berkeley-db ./Makefile CONFIGURE_ARGS+=--enable-assembler --without-berkeley-db the build seems to /ignore/ the flag,