Msdos/FAT stability issues

2007-11-13 Thread mailinglist
Hi list, Recently I've been experimenting with fetching files via bittorrent clients, and storing torrents as well as their resulting files on a fat formatted slice (automatically recognized and setup during fbsd installation a couple of years ago). Now after adding around ~three or more

Re: Msdos/FAT stability issues

2007-11-13 Thread Wojciech Puchar
more concurrent torrents something happens with the fat slice and/or its driver. All programs trying to access the slice will freeze and this even includes the Gnome desktop. During shutdown, flushing of a little more than 1600 buffers fails. I run 6.2-release. Does the FAT driver contain

minicom macro to break into debugger on remote

2007-11-13 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi, Would some kind soul here advise me how to set up a F-key macro in minicom so I can break inte the debugger on a machine connected over the serial port? I assume that means the vt100 escape sequence for ctrl-alt-esc? Thanks, --per ___

Re: problems using gdb on threaded programs

2007-11-13 Thread Jurjen Middendorp
Ok let me try again (more explanation/question below). Also sorry that i screwed up the script output by having a copy of the text in it... not sure how that happened! On Sat, Nov 10, 2007 at 05:53:09PM +, Jurjen Middendorp wrote: Hello, when i try to debug a program with threads (with gdb)

Re: can't think of program

2007-11-13 Thread Robert Huff
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Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-13 Thread J65nko
On Nov 12, 2007 9:08 PM, Alupului Costin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I seem to have quite a problem with PF. I have set up a bridge to shape my upstream traffic. I use ALTQ with hfsc discipline; but that's not really important. My problem comes with the filter rules. I have to use

Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 23:42:20 Nov 12, Erik Osterholm wrote: My understanding (and please correct me if I'm wrong) is that keeping state requires fragmented packet reassembly, which can break some applications. You mean that you cannot support broken applications if you do reassembly? Packet reassembly

Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-13 Thread Alupului Costin
On Nov 13, 2007 4:20 AM, Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22:08:03 Nov 12, Alupului Costin wrote: I seem to have quite a problem with PF. I have set up a bridge to shape my upstream traffic. I use ALTQ with hfsc discipline; but that's not really important. My problem comes

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Rob
I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/ I have to agree with many posters, this project is the most

Re: Msdos/FAT stability issues

2007-11-13 Thread Michel Talon
Wojciech Puchar wrote: don't thing of msdosfs as high performance filesystem. it was writted to just works to be able to copy file to/from this. See Bruce Evans contribution: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?200707201706.l6KH6vaQ000567 msdosfs is now only slightly slower than ffs with

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
Rob wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/ I have to agree with many posters, this project

Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 18:57:34 Nov 13, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: I just read the post you linked. Thanks. :) I read the post once again and it looks as though I understood what is mentioned there. The 'no-df' in scrub rule clears the Don't fragment bit in the IP header. When a host wrongly sends fragmented

Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-13 Thread Alupului Costin
On Nov 13, 2007 2:30 PM, J65nko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 12, 2007 9:08 PM, Alupului Costin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, I seem to have quite a problem with PF. I have set up a bridge to shape my upstream traffic. I use ALTQ with hfsc discipline; but that's not really

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread usleepless
On Nov 13, 2007 2:52 PM, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV http://xogiving.org/

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Bart Silverstrim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 2:52 PM, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV

Re: disk drive serial number

2007-11-13 Thread Marcelo Celleri
Install dmidecode from ports, its a great tool to audit your hardware and is also available for Linux. El lun, 12-11-2007 a las 11:54 -0500, Jerry McAllister escribió: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 06:38:08PM -0500, Josh Carroll wrote: is there a way to get the serial number from a drive from

Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-13 Thread Girish Venkatachalam
On 15:53:38 Nov 13, Alupului Costin wrote: When that client tries logging in to Yahoo Messenger I can see an increase in the number of state-mismatch reported by pfctl -si. There are states established, but after a while the packets simply do not match the states created. Also they will not

Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-13 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 07:25:23PM +0530, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: On 18:57:34 Nov 13, Girish Venkatachalam wrote: I just read the post you linked. Thanks. :) I read the post once again and it looks as though I understood what is mentioned there. The 'no-df' in scrub rule clears the

New FreeBSD Job Opening with the new Open Source Group at Cisco

2007-11-13 Thread Brent Rogers (breroger)
Megan, Hello! My name is Brent and I am a recruiter at Cisco. Join the group that will change the way Cisco develops software. Be part of the Cisco organization that is driving the evolution and expansion into new technology areas and market segments. This group is responsible for building the

releng_7, can't compile gcc (make buildworld)

2007-11-13 Thread Milan Bartos
Hi, I am running 7.0-BETA2 and i have following problem: I fetched the latest releng_7 sources via cvsup from *default host=cvsup3.FreeBSD.org. But: - - - - - Vallhala#make buildworld cc -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -I. -DIN_GCC -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -DPREFIX=\/usr\

Re: PF, bridge, states and window scaling problem

2007-11-13 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:53:38PM +0200, Alupului Costin wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 4:20 AM, Girish Venkatachalam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 22:08:03 Nov 12, Alupului Costin wrote: pass in quick on vlan0 from any to anIP/32 pass out quick on vlan0 from anIP/32 to any keep state queue

Re: Neither linux-firefox nor linux-opera uses java plugin

2007-11-13 Thread Robert Huff
Andrew Pantyukhin writes: This dead body is beaten every other day. Personally, I download flash movies and watch them with mplayer. I know about youtube-dl; is there a generic method for doing this with other Flash content? Robert Huff

Re: OT: Beastie 3D-rendered

2007-11-13 Thread David Naylor
Hi, This wallpaper has actually been around for a long time, as seen at: http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=34233 At this site it does say it has been released under a BSD license (go figure :-) I hope this helps. I would like to second the request for the sources to this image,

Re: Neither linux-firefox nor linux-opera uses java plugin

2007-11-13 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 01:06:29PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Andrew Pantyukhin writes: This dead body is beaten every other day. Personally, I download flash movies and watch them with mplayer. I know about youtube-dl; is there a generic method for doing this with other Flash

Broken port link

2007-11-13 Thread Muhammad Usman
Hello There! While i was trying to install p5-Apache-ASP i got error. /usr/ports/www/mod_perl/work/mod_perl-1.30/apaci is corrupted. There are some files missing in this port. Will anybody let me know that where to report this bug. /usr/ports/www/mod_perl/work/mod_perl-1.30/apaci -- B.RGDS

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2007-11-13 Thread iulivarzariuda..
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Freebsd in The Netherlands

2007-11-13 Thread Marten Vijn
Hi, This list dutch is offline (Tried 4 times) Dutch -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Futhermore : I would like the offer one working list, for our *BSD activities (mainly FreeBSD) mainly monthly meeting where we build FreeBSD systems site: http://bsd.wifisoft.org/trac/ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: One Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Garrett Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Nov 13, 2007 2:52 PM, Rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am usually not the one to bring up these things but I feel very strongly about this. Starting Monday, November 12 this website is offering a give one get one deal. I believe the money will be well invested. YMMV

Re: linux firefox

2007-11-13 Thread Tino Engel
Andrew Pantyukhin schrieb: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:38:22AM +, Tino Engel wrote: Dear FreeBSD folks, I have a weird problem: linux-firefox and linux-firefox-devel behave the same way. When I quit them, and try to restart them, they complain about beeing already running. I have to

Re: Broken port link

2007-11-13 Thread Tino Engel
Muhammad Usman schrieb: Hello There! While i was trying to install p5-Apache-ASP i got error. /usr/ports/www/mod_perl/work/mod_perl-1.30/apaci is corrupted. There are some files missing in this port. Will anybody let me know that where to report this bug.

Re: Broken port link

2007-11-13 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Muhammad Usman wrote: Hello There! While i was trying to install p5-Apache-ASP i got error. /usr/ports/www/mod_perl/work/mod_perl-1.30/apaci is corrupted. There are some files missing in this port. Will anybody let me know that where to report this bug.

Re: CD's and fonts....

2007-11-13 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 11:08:24AM +0100, Michael Rudolph wrote: [[ ... ]] I assume konqueror is chocking because you have font previews enabled. If you deselect Font Files in konquerors View Preview submenu, prior to entering your font directory, you should be able to use

Re: Neither linux-firefox nor linux-opera uses java plugin

2007-11-13 Thread Tino Engel
Andrew Pantyukhin schrieb: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 05:45:42PM +, Tino Engel wrote: Dear all, Any help concerning the topic as follws would be very appreciated. freebsdangel# uname -a FreeBSD freebsdangel.de 7.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 7.0-BETA2 #0: Sat Nov 10 20:15:45 UTC 2007 [EMAIL

Port upgrade good..almost

2007-11-13 Thread Desmond Chapman
I used portmanager to upgrade, but came across a few problems that I need help with. Ports-mgmt tools is still under sysutils. Xorg has upgraded everything except the libraries- they are still at the 6.x stage for me. And I am horrible at making symlinks and removing old ports. Any

Re: linux firefox

2007-11-13 Thread Andrew Pantyukhin
On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:17:11PM +0100, Tino Engel wrote: Andrew Pantyukhin schrieb: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 01:38:22AM +, Tino Engel wrote: Dear FreeBSD folks, I have a weird problem: linux-firefox and linux-firefox-devel behave the same way. When I quit them, and try to

Re: what changed recently with browser plugins?

2007-11-13 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 08:52:40AM -0600, Jonathan Horne wrote: i want to say it was early to mid-october, that standard opera and firefox stopped working (upon upgrade) with the plugins (flash). previously, most flash that i would encounter worked fine in opera, which was my preference

Re: IPFW or ProFTPD

2007-11-13 Thread Grigoriy S. Gusew
Check for bruteblock or sshit in /usr/ports/security i got bruteblock installed and it works for 3 months already, blocking bruteforcers from all over the world :) Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, I am getting lots of brute force attacks on my proftpd server and was wondering if anyone knows of a

Re: Broken port link

2007-11-13 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Tino Engel wrote: Muhammad Usman schrieb: Hello There! While i was trying to install p5-Apache-ASP i got error. /usr/ports/www/mod_perl/work/mod_perl-1.30/apaci is corrupted. There are some files missing in this port. Will anybody let me know that where to report this bug.

What server for a mail server

2007-11-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a project where I should set-up a mail server for approximately 12000 users, 4000 virtual domains, 15000 messages per day, 700 MB traffic per day. The machine should run Postfix, courrier-imap and a web mail (probably squirel), Apache 2, spamassassin, clamav, greylist What type of

Re: What server for a mail server

2007-11-13 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-11-14 09:04, Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a project where I should set-up a mail server for approximately 12000 users, 4000 virtual domains, 15000 messages per day, 700 MB traffic per day. The machine should run Postfix, courrier-imap and a web mail (probably

How to reset a TCP connection

2007-11-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, On a mail server, I do some update of some lists on a daily basis, using wget. I am testing the script that will do the update, including some timestamping with wget (hopefully). I want to be able to test various combinations of parameters of wget for robust transmission, so I want to

How to reset a TCP connection

2007-11-13 Thread Robert Huff
Olivier Nicole writes: How can I manually reset an established TCp connection? Ask Comcast. :-) Robert Huff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

How to reset a TCP connection

2007-11-13 Thread Robert Huff
Robert Huff writes: Olivier Nicole writes: How can I manually reset an established TCp connection? Ask Comcast. :-) My apologies for being cryptic. In the United Stated, cable television and Internet provider Comcast has recently come under criticism

Re: How to reset a TCP connection

2007-11-13 Thread Olivier Nicole
In the United Stated, cable television and Internet provider Comcast has recently come under criticism for managing bittorrent traffic by sending TCP RST packets to those who are over some unannounced traffic limit (i.e. hogging the bandwidth). Well I only plan to reset connections

Re: How to reset a TCP connection

2007-11-13 Thread Grigoriy S. Gusew
see man 8 tcpdrop, may be that is what you need. Olivier Nicole пишет: In the United Stated, cable television and Internet provider Comcast has recently come under criticism for managing bittorrent traffic by sending TCP RST packets to those who are over some unannounced traffic limit

One (FreeBSD?) Laptop Per Child

2007-11-13 Thread Ian Smith
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 09:15:42 -0500 Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Have you read the articles on OLPC? They're made to run on very low power. They have batteries that can be crank-charged quickly, or run off small solar panels. Somehow I don't think they're short on

re: Postfix, dns, and hosts.allow

2007-11-13 Thread jekillen
Sorry: I sent this message by mistake before completing it. I had also sent the same message to the postfix user list. Thank you in adance for into Jeff K ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Postfix, dns, and hosts.allow

2007-11-13 Thread jekillen
Hello: I have a question about Postfix and hosts.allow: Sendmail and exim are mentioned in the file and I assume that Sendmail would refer to Postfix sendmail as well as Sendmail. But Since Postfix runs smtp.d, how would I do Postfix in hosts.allow? I also have a question about how postfix would

FreeBSD cache memory allocation

2007-11-13 Thread icantthinkofone
Someone I can't stand said this about FreeBSD. Though I know C, I don't know anything about it and would love to respond. [QUOTE]The kernel is really lacking some features. They need a method to set precise type of memory cache but BSD doesn't provide way to specify memory cache. For that

inspiron 1721 xorg/ati radeon 1270 Xpress freebsd amd64 8-current

2007-11-13 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
Hi all, I just bought an Inspiron 1721 b/c I had a ridiculous deal. Its CPU:AMD Turion 64 x2 TL-64 (2.2GHz/1MB) RAM:4GB pc25300 sodimm (2x2GB) (upgraded manually) Screen: 17.0 wide screen (1920x1200) VGA:ATI RADEON Xpress1270 256MB HyperMemory HD: 320G (2x 160) 5400RPM SATA

PHP can not find core function

2007-11-13 Thread doug
I am trying to evaluate two php billing programs, One gives no errors, syntax or otherwise, the other fails to find the mysql_real_escape_string function. I the later case I assume I have a path problem. It seems that something in the code of the first program is turning off errors. Both

How to see UNICODE character number?

2007-11-13 Thread Yuri
What is the easiest way to get the UNICODE number for a Chinese character? I use KDE. All programs just show the character itself when I paste it :-) Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: How to reset a TCP connection

2007-11-13 Thread cpghost
On Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:09:59 -0500 Robert Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Huff writes: Olivier Nicole writes: How can I manually reset an established TCp connection? Ask Comcast. :-) My apologies for being cryptic. In the United