Re: RFC: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs

2008-04-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Unga wrote: --- Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just completed an article (mostly how-to) for implementing UFS journaling on a typical desktop PC: http://store.itsyourftp.com/~sonic2000gr/freebsd/gjournal-desktop/article.html It focuses on detailing an easy

Re: RFC: Article on implementing UFS journaling on desktop PCs

2008-04-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The note before the introduction is the abstract, and seems to be a standard feature in articles. You are right though, some parts should be shortened, information is repeated. after reading this article i am even more sure that this gjournal is a quick and quite primitive hack, not real

Re: wine: notepad OK, others not

2008-04-26 Thread perryh
It's really easier to try to install an app under Wine ... With, it seems, at least two exceptions: * Some apps -- such as Wordpad and Write -- are packaged and installed with Windows, rather than on separate media. Are there instructions somewhere for installing such an app under wine?

Re: Even more documentation?

2008-04-26 Thread Steven Friedrich
On Friday 25 April 2008 10:32:37 pm Edward Ruggeri wrote: Hi all, I've used FreeBSD for about two years now. Besides using Linux for projects on school computers, I never had much experience with Unix-like operating systems. While I get by nicely on FreeBSD, I recently felt that I didn't

Re: How to use a external monitor on FB7/Gnome

2008-04-26 Thread Kemian Dang
Hi Vince and Roland, Thank you for the reply, but unfortunately, they did not work. I closed the laptop, connected the monitor and restarted the laptop, xrandr -q only gave the information of integrated monitor, no external monitors' information and xrandr --auto did not give any information. I

Re: simple network traffic query tool

2008-04-26 Thread Tobias Kirschstein
On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:20:35 +0200 Roger Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tobias Kirschstein skrev: hi, i'm looking for a small tool to query the current network traffic (kb IN and OUT) per interface. is there any sysctl or tool which gives me a similar output to systat -ifstat:

Re: simple network traffic query tool

2008-04-26 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, Tobias Kirschstein pisze: On Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:20:35 +0200 Roger Olofsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tobias Kirschstein skrev: hi, i'm looking for a small tool to query the current network traffic (kb IN and OUT) per interface. is there any sysctl or tool which gives me a

Re: Even more documentation?

2008-04-26 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:32:37 -0400, Edward Ruggeri [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hi all, I've used FreeBSD for about two years now. Besides using Linux for projects on school computers, I never had much experience with Unix-like operating systems. While I get by nicely on FreeBSD, I

Can't install mod_perl (apr*.h issue)

2008-04-26 Thread Walter Venable
Hey all...whenever I try to install mod_perl, it hangs up saying it can't find the apr*.h files (which I've manually located in /usr/local/include/apr-1/ . My question -- how do I get it to look in that proper folder? See log: Script started on Sat Apr 26 05:14:47 2008 [weaseal:

Is mplayer currently broken?

2008-04-26 Thread Yuri
Hi, When I am tryig to play DVD disk: mplayer dvd:// -sid 0 -vo xv -alang english -dvd-device /dev/acd0 all video comes up as scrambled, with big blinking squares as if MPEG2 is damaged or not decrypted correctly. But if I first read DVD content to disk mplayer plays the resulting directory

Re: How to use a external monitor on FB7/Gnome

2008-04-26 Thread Eric Schuele
On 04/26/2008 04:29, Kemian Dang wrote: Hi Vince and Roland, Thank you for the reply, but unfortunately, they did not work. I closed the laptop, connected the monitor and restarted the laptop, xrandr -q only gave the information of integrated monitor, no external monitors' information and

Re: Can't install mod_perl (apr*.h issue)

2008-04-26 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Saturday, April 26, 2008 4:54 PM +0300 Walter Venable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all...whenever I try to install mod_perl, it hangs up saying it can't find the apr*.h files (which I've manually located in /usr/local/include/apr-1/ . My question -- how do I get it to look in that proper

Re: Is mplayer currently broken?

2008-04-26 Thread Joshua Isom
On Apr 26, 2008, at 10:32 AM, Yuri wrote: Hi, When I am tryig to play DVD disk: mplayer dvd:// -sid 0 -vo xv -alang english -dvd-device /dev/acd0 all video comes up as scrambled, with big blinking squares as if MPEG2 is damaged or not decrypted correctly. But if I first read DVD content to

Re: Can't install mod_perl (apr*.h issue)

2008-04-26 Thread Walter Venable
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Saturday, April 26, 2008 4:54 PM +0300 Walter Venable [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all...whenever I try to install mod_perl, it hangs up saying it can't find the apr*.h files (which I've manually located in

Re: Is mplayer currently broken?

2008-04-26 Thread Yuri
Try using dvd://1 instead of dvd://, although I recommend installing lsdvd first to find out the most likely track to use. dvd://1 didn't help. when it worked dvd:// worked fine for me. But thank you for the suggestion to use lsdvd first. Yuri

Re: How to use a external monitor on FB7/Gnome

2008-04-26 Thread Kemian Dang
I tried Fn F4 combination in previous test which works for Windows, but without response at all. It works for Windows, so I think the BIOS or Key pair should not be the problem. Any way, thank you for your suggestion, and I will take a look at BIOS next time I restart the machine to make it sure.

Re: Cron question

2008-04-26 Thread John Almberg
On Apr 25, 2008, at 10:31 AM, John Almberg wrote: ...and invoking this wrapper from cron instead of trying to reset the shell and everything from within cron. You can test things by doing an su gs -c /bin/sh from a root login and then trying to run your wrapper, which will give

gnuplot without tetex?

2008-04-26 Thread Ghirai
Hello list, Is there any way to install gnuplot without the somewhat huge tetex deps? Thanks. -- Regards, Ghirai. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: gnuplot without tetex?

2008-04-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:22:33PM +0300, Ghirai wrote: Hello list, Is there any way to install gnuplot without the somewhat huge tetex deps? Yes. Update your ports tree. Go to the port's directory, and give the command 'make config'. Turn off the Search kpsexpand at run-time option and

Re: gnuplot without tetex?

2008-04-26 Thread Ghirai
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:43:50 +0200 Roland Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 08:22:33PM +0300, Ghirai wrote: Hello list, Is there any way to install gnuplot without the somewhat huge tetex deps? Yes. Update your ports tree. Go to the port's directory, and give

LOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES and FreeBSD 6.3

2008-04-26 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
Hi, I am trying to build a install server. I have used make -DLOADER_TFTP_SUPPORT=YES in /usr/src/obj and copied it over to my /pxeboot/ which I have copied contents from FreeBSD 6.3 Install cd. But no matter what I have done pxeboot always tries to use nfs but no tftp. There is a similar thread

Visit Veracity at INTEROP 2008 in Booth #2401

2008-04-26 Thread Veracity USA, Inc.
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Re: Pine Corupting Inbox

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Chris Maness wrote: I think that pine is corrupting my inbox, so that it is unreadable by UW-IMAPD. When using squirrelmail after using pine I see the headers, but squirrelmail is unable to open the e-mails. When you read your mail with (al)pine with it

Re: Pine Corupting Inbox

2008-04-26 Thread Chris Maness
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Apr 21, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Chris Maness wrote: I think that pine is corrupting my inbox, so that it is unreadable by UW-IMAPD. When using squirrelmail after using pine I see the headers, but squirrelmail is unable to open the e-mails.

USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
I am hoping that this is on-topic for the questions list. If not, I apologize. I have a couple of FreeBSD systems, and I must confess that I haven't set systematic back-ups of them. I've taken a quick look at both the Bacula and Amanda documentation, but for reasons below I'll list why

Re: Pine Corupting Inbox

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 26, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Chris Maness wrote: I am not having any problems whith other users, Then my suspicion grows stronger that something in your own particular pine configuration is putting your mail in a place where imapd can't see it. So in addition to what I've suggested, have

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread David N
2008/4/27 Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am hoping that this is on-topic for the questions list. If not, I apologize. I have a couple of FreeBSD systems, and I must confess that I haven't set systematic back-ups of them. I've taken a quick look at both the Bacula and Amanda

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:38 PM, David N wrote: We used to use RSnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ to backup to an external disk, its a great tool that also does incremental via hard links which is a plus. Just after I posted, I started thinking about rsync. I hadn't known about rsync's hard

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread A. Hamilton-Wright
You haven't mentioned how large a USB drive you have available to use for this scheme, but it sounds to me like your situation can be summed up as follows: - you have two machines to back up, one is remote, but both have consistent network accessibility - you have a (removable) drive upon

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've taken a quick look at both the Bacula and Amanda documentation, but for reasons below I'll list why I don't think that they are idea for my rather simple situation. rsync is what you need. while r means remote you may use rsync between local filesystems too.

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread A. Hamilton-Wright
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Apr 26, 2008, at 3:38 PM, David N wrote: We used to use RSnapshot http://www.rsnapshot.org/ to backup to an external disk, its a great tool that also does incremental via hard links which is a plus. Just after I posted, I started thinking

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread Michael W. Holdeman
On Saturday 26 April 2008 16:26:53 Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: I am hoping that this is on-topic for the questions list. If not, I apologize. I have a couple of FreeBSD systems, and I must confess that I haven't set systematic back-ups of them. I've taken a quick look at both the Bacula and

Re: USB HD based backup schemes

2008-04-26 Thread prad
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 15:26:53 -0500 Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure that I could roll my own with dump or such, but I'm sure that I would leave important things out i don't know about that, jeffrey. i found dump to be very straightforward and i think it's great you can ssh

Re: Pine Corupting Inbox

2008-04-26 Thread Chris Maness
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Jeffrey Goldberg wrote: On Apr 26, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Chris Maness wrote: I am not having any problems whith other users, Then my suspicion grows stronger that something in your own particular pine configuration is putting your mail in a place where imapd can't see it.

Ports Question

2008-04-26 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, What is the proper method to pass configure arguments when installing a port? example, I am trying to build exim with mysql and spf support make -D WITH_SPF=YES -D WITH_MYSQL=YES Please help, been struggling with this for what seems like forever. -Grant

Re: Ports Question

2008-04-26 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 04:40:58PM -0400, Grant Peel wrote: Hi all, What is the proper method to pass configure arguments when installing a port? While you can supply arguments on the command line, it is hard to remember. Therefore I think it is best to set arguments in make.conf. For

Re: Ports Question

2008-04-26 Thread Chris Hill
On Sat, 26 Apr 2008, Grant Peel wrote: What is the proper method to pass configure arguments when installing a port? example, I am trying to build exim with mysql and spf support make -D WITH_SPF=YES -D WITH_MYSQL=YES I think for this example the proper syntax would be: make -DWITH_SPF

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-04-06 - 2008-04-26

2008-04-26 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Manpage for rpc.ypupdated?

2008-04-26 Thread Dan Mahoney, System Admin
With all the recent changeover in namespace for rpc/yp stuff, there's been a lot moved around, but in all my searches, the ypd.upupdated daemon is completely undocumented. (even with a grep through the rest of the man directories provides no mention). Near as I can tell, it allows nis

Re: Sidetracked: why gjournal over soft-updates (Was: Re: UFS2 Journaling implementation detail)

2008-04-26 Thread Dieter
SU requires that data it once sends to the drive gets written immediately, not cached by the drive. Modern desktop drives don't do that They do if you set them to write-through cache instead of write-back cache. Modern SATA drives also provide NCQ. When is FreeBSD going to support NCQ?

Distributing makefiles

2008-04-26 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Hi all, I am planning to distribute some of the makefiles I wrote on various platforms, including FreeBSD. I need the help of some insightful soul to take a few decisions: --- Where to install? I think /usr/local/share/mk is fine; --- How to install? Users should put a `.MAKEFLAGS: