Free BSD 7 - Not able to receive messages

2008-08-28 Thread Blessan
I have installed free bsd 7 on on Intel Xeon Machine with 1 Gb ram. But i cant use the mailing facility .. i can send mail by typing [mail username] then follows the subject and message then EOF. but i when i check mail of that particular user it shows No mail for that user ?? Why is it so .. ?

Re: Free BSD 7 - Not able to receive messages

2008-08-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:17:59 +0530, Blessan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed free bsd 7 on on Intel Xeon Machine with 1 Gb ram. But i cant use the mailing facility .. i can send mail by typing [mail username] then follows the subject and message then EOF. but i when i check mail of

PF rules evaluation

2008-08-28 Thread Michael Lednev
Hello. Is there some tool to test rules-file for PF with arbitrary packets without need for real traffic? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hello, Is there a command in FreeBSD that ejects a USB disk like in Windows? I mount the USB disk with automount daemone (amd). I have a script that access this disk and force an umount at the end of the script. But anyone accessing the disk will have amd re'mount the disk and at the time I

Re: PF rules evaluation

2008-08-28 Thread Jay Chandler
Michael Lednev wrote: Hello. Is there some tool to test rules-file for PF with arbitrary packets without need for real traffic? Yes. It's called netcat (nc on most systems). -- Jay Chandler / KB1JWQ Living Legend / Systems Exorcist Today's Excuse: Second-system effect

Re: PF rules evaluation

2008-08-28 Thread Michael Lednev
Jay Chandler пишет: Michael Lednev wrote: Hello. Is there some tool to test rules-file for PF with arbitrary packets without need for real traffic? Yes. It's called netcat (nc on most systems). Very funny. It will create real traffic which I want to avoid.

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:56:27 +0700 (ICT), Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Is there a command in FreeBSD that ejects a USB disk like in Windows? [...] I would like to have a command that makes the disk/USB port physically inaccessible, so at the end of the script a user

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
I would like to have a command that makes the disk/USB port physically inaccessible, so at the end of the script a user cannot access the disk again. you should be able to use camcontrol's eject or stop command on that device, usually /dev/da[0-9]. I tried that. That would eventually

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:56:27 +0700 (ICT) Olivier Nicole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Like in Windows after stopping a USB mass storage device, one has to unplg and replug the disk if he wants to access it again. What about just unplugging the disk when you are done with your skript and do not need

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
Like in Windows after stopping a USB mass storage device, one has to unplg and replug the disk if he wants to access it again. What about just unplugging the disk when you are done with your skript and do not need the disk any more? I may not be around when the script finishes... Olivier

Re: Security problems, I think I have a hacker attacker.

2008-08-28 Thread Martin Moeller
* Christopher Joyner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [26.08.2008 08:35]: I think someone is attempting to get into my system. Here is my details: There are 2 login failuers on ttyv0, And also 2 login failers on ttyv0 root. Man, you typed in a wrong password. :) -- Dipl.-Theol. Martin Moeller ipse AT

Obscure df -h output

2008-08-28 Thread Marc Coyles
One of my servers appears to be having a slightly dippy moment... Running FREEBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 i386 (I don't have the bottle to attempt freebsd-update to 7.0-REL, altho I really should... Still a relative newb tho, and not confident on a box I can only access by remote) running WHM 11.23.2

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Eduardo Morras
At 06:56 28/08/2008, you wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:08:47 -0400 Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's true about FAT. What I have never understood is why Microsoft didn't fix the problem when they designed NTFS. UFS and EXT2 both existed at that time, and neither needs periodic

Re: Obscure df -h output

2008-08-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Marc Coyles wrote: One of my servers appears to be having a slightly dippy moment... Running FREEBSD 5.3-RELEASE-p5 i386 (I don't have the bottle to attempt freebsd-update to 7.0-REL, altho I really should... Still a relative newb tho, and not confident on a box I can only access by remote)

RE: Obscure df -h output

2008-08-28 Thread Marc Coyles
Looks like they did some strange things trying to get it back. Those look like nullfs mounts with the same source and destination, which makes no sense. What does mount -v show you? Hi Kris... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mount -v /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, writes: sync 715484 async 362440,

Wireless and Broadcast packets problem

2008-08-28 Thread Adrian Thearle
Hi Guys I am having a problem with my wireless network. The Issue is that clients connected to the wireless LAN cannot _see_ other clients. My understanding of 802.11 was that clients could talk to other clients, except all traffic would go via the access point and that the AP would forward on

Re: Regular Expression Trouble

2008-08-28 Thread Peter Boosten
Paul Chvostek wrote: This is an attempt to isolate every MAC address that appears and then sort and count them to see who is having trouble or, in some cases, is causing trouble. Then you still may want to use awk for some of that... cat /var/log/dhcpd.log | \ sed -nE

Re: Obscure df -h output

2008-08-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Marc Coyles wrote: Looks like they did some strange things trying to get it back. Those look like nullfs mounts with the same source and destination, which makes no sense. What does mount -v show you? Hi Kris... [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ mount -v /dev/ad0s1a on / (ufs, local, writes: sync

network card configure (was: Re: Free BSD 7 - Not able to receive messages)

2008-08-28 Thread Boris Samorodov
(creating a new thread with a new subject) On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:17:59 +0530 Blessan wrote: Also i have to configure my network card each time i reboot.. How do you configure your network card? Did you write your configuration to /etc/rc.conf[.local]? You may consider reading rc.conf(5) for

Re: Free BSD 7 - Not able to receive messages

2008-08-28 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 11:17:59 +0530 Blessan wrote: I have installed free bsd 7 on on Intel Xeon Machine with 1 Gb ram. But i cant use the mailing facility .. i can send mail by typing [mail username] then follows the subject and message then EOF. but i when i check mail of that particular

Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-28 Thread Jonathan Belson
Greg Larkin wrote: Jonathan Belson wrote: | Hiya | | I set up a remote box to e-mail 'periodic' output to me directly. It | has now | stopped working, and I suspect it's because the 'From:' addresses of the | status | e-mails is of the form '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and the ISP has upped its |

dragon player + no sound

2008-08-28 Thread Warren Liddell
When i open any movie file format, from avi, wmv, mpg .. they all play the picture perfectly, however i have no sound. xmms plays sound fine, the test of kmplayer using KDE4 plays picture sound. Any reason why i have no sound ? Im using KDE4 on FreeBSD 7.0- STABLE AMD64.

Re: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-28 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jonathan Belson wrote: | Greg Larkin wrote: | Jonathan Belson wrote: | | Hiya | | | | I set up a remote box to e-mail 'periodic' output to me directly. It | | has now | | stopped working, and I suspect it's because the 'From:' addresses of |

Re: messagebus user

2008-08-28 Thread jef moskot
On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Dan Nelson wrote: You should be able to change its uid by deinstalling dbus, then editing /usr/ports/devel/dbus/pkg-install, changing the uid in that script to an unused ID, and reinstalling. That worked fine, thanks. Still don't know what this thing does (the things

Re: curses.h, beep() returns ERR, flash() casuses segment fault.

2008-08-28 Thread Thomas Dickey
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 07:10:40PM -0700, Christopher Joyner wrote: I do not get the OK from beep, and flash crashes the program. This is my code: #include curses.h int main(int argc,char** argv) { initscr();/* see also filter() and newterm() */ if(beep()!=OK) //

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Bill Moran
RW [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:08:47 -0400 Mike Jeays [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's true about FAT. What I have never understood is why Microsoft didn't fix the problem when they designed NTFS. UFS and EXT2 both existed at that time, and neither needs periodic

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with windoze. because it doesn't need it. fsck is equivalent to scandisk, right? not exactly - fsck usually fix errors, unlike scandisk

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Maybe it is because FAT filesystem wasn't well designed from the beginning and defrag was a workaround to solve performances problems. as everything else microsoft did it wasn't designed but stoled, possibly slightly changed. FAT is similar (mostly the same) as CP/M filesystem. CP/M was

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's true about FAT. What I have never understood is why Microsoft didn't fix the problem when they designed NTFS. UFS and EXT2 both existed at that time, and neither needs periodic defragmentation. because Microsoft never fixes the real problems, but create it. if they would fix most of

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think they probably did, NTFS took a lot from UNIX filesystems, and what for example? it took 95% from OS/2 HPFS filesystem and another 5% is what microsoft f...ed up. at the time it was released they said that NTFS

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
No, if you check a NTFS disk after some work, it's heavily fragmented. As you fill it and work with it, it becomes more and more fragmented. it's just like FAT, because nothing is done to prevent fragmentation. if NTFS needs to allocate block, it simply get first free. consider writing to 3

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
MS was focused on building a filesytem that could store the outrageous ACLs they wanted, and that was non-trival so - as usually - they quickly implemented OS/2 filesystem (at best, assuming no stolen code), and added their bloat then. performance is never a priority in Microsoft. exactly

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Svein Halvor Halvorsen
Wojciech Puchar wrote: (look at how long it took the BSDs to have native file-level ACLs). because in unix they are not actually needed. usersgroups system is just perfect. That's one man's opinion. i don't know anyone here that actually use ACL under unix because he/she needs it. It

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
because in unix they are not actually needed. usersgroups system is just perfect. That's one man's opinion. for sure not one. all local unix users (not linux fans) i know share the same opinion ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

How to disable cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors

2008-08-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm trying to build a port and get stopped on a warning because cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors Even though it is probably there for a reason, I'd like to try to continue with the build. But I cannot see what c++ switch prevents warnings from being treated as errors. Please

HP DV2000 series

2008-08-28 Thread michael
anyone here have/use the hp pavillion dv2000 series laptop? i have two. one of them is not showing post, i'm thinking its the lid switch. should i try to open it and remove the switch? it is just out of warranty. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: dump(8) ok, but restore(8) failes

2008-08-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 27, 2008 a las 01:00:18PM +0200, Matthias Apitz escribió: the DUMP itself seems to be ok because a restore like this works: $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'cat dumpsRebelion-20080825/usr.dmp.gz' | gzip -dc | restore -xv -f - ./home/guru/myThings/Espanol/diario2008 the

UFS snapshot code changed?

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
were it changed between 6.3 and 7.0? in 6 there was a little time used ti delete the snapshot (when ending dump -L for example), it 7 it seems to be instant. is it OK (very nice indeed) or sohmething is wrong? i'm asking to be sure ___

Re: How to disable cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors

2008-08-28 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:51:57PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm trying to build a port and get stopped on a warning because cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors Even though it is probably there for a reason, I'd like to try to continue with the

Re: How to disable cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors

2008-08-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm trying to build a port and get stopped on a warning because cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors Even though it is probably there for a reason, I'd like to try to continue with the build. But I cannot see what c++ switch prevents warnings from being

hp dv2000

2008-08-28 Thread michael
apparently there are a lot of issues with this notebook. i did have to disable dma on atapi and such just to get freebsd installed. other than that, they have been great mobile workstations ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread RW
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:13:40 +0200 Eduardo Morras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, if you check a NTFS disk after some work, it's heavily fragmented. As you fill it and work with it, it becomes more and more fragmented. How did you measure it? AFAIK the percentage fragmentation figures

Re: How to disable cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors

2008-08-28 Thread Kris Kennaway
Anton Shterenlikht wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 02:51:57PM +0200, Kris Kennaway wrote: Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I'm trying to build a port and get stopped on a warning because cc1plus: warnings being treated as errors Even though it is probably there for a reason, I'd like to try

SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread H.fazaeli
Hi all, I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? 2. Is there any way to force UP operation apart form recompiling kernel without SMP option? 3. Can someone shed some light on the logic of how schedulers

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: Changing 'From:' address of periodic scripts

2008-08-28 Thread Jonathan Belson
Matthew Seaman wrote: Jonathan Belson wrote: | | OK, thanks. After playing with MASQUERADE_AS(), MASQUERADE_DOMAIN() | plus a few FEATURES(), I've managed to change the 'From:' address for | e-mails sent via the command line. Unfortunately, e-mails sent via the | cron-ed periodic scripts

gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they came back up, the file systems wouldn't mount since they were not clean. Now, I understand

Re: SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 28 August 2008 07:59:00 H.fazaeli wrote: Hi all, I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? I don't think so. FreeBSD 7.x just got cpuset backported from -CURRENT. -- Kirk Strauser

Problem in FreeBSD 7.x, in Xorg switching consoles.

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Joyner
When I switch from my Xorg running KDE, for some reason it pushes a string as keypresses to the KDE. I do not know if it's on return, or on exit. Here is my setup! On tty3 is my Xorg KDE desktop. On tty8 is a getty login. I use alt+ctrl+f8 to enter the login screen on tty8. I then switch

Re: Help! Tape drive resets the server!

2008-08-28 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 27 August 2008 14:53:44 Tyson Boellstorff wrote: 3) Yes, it's possible that your drive is doing this, but more likely you have a bent pin/short somewhere causing the scsi bus to reset, and your kernel isn't handling this nicely. Check your pins. They bend easy, but a mechanical

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they came back up, the file systems wouldn't mount since they were not

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they came back up, the file systems wouldn't mount since they were not clean.

Re: SMP questions

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
H.fazaeli wrote: Hi all, I have 3 questions regrading SMP on freebsd 6.x: 1. Is there any userland tool/api to bound a process to a specific cpu? This support is native to 8-CURRENT, I think most of it is backported to 7.1. 2. Is there any way to force UP operation apart form recompiling

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Ivan Voras
Brian McCann wrote: Yes...I apologize...I did that when I built the file system with newfs -J. Here's the tunefs -p output for one of the file systems: # tunefs -p /dev/da2.journal tunefs: ACLs: (-a) disabled tunefs: MAC multilabel: (-l)

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
You may wish to have a look at this article: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/gjournal-desktop Great article...thanks. Bookmarked for future use too! In particular, you should make sure you use tunefs to enable Journaling and disable soft update on the journaled

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does gjournal complain about your drive, for example that it doesn't support BIOFLUSH? Actually yes...I meant to post them in my last message, but hit send too early...here's my output from boot (from dmesg.boot)

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does gjournal complain about your drive, for example that it doesn't support BIOFLUSH? Actually yes...I meant to post them in my last message, but hit

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Brian McCann wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:03 AM, Brian McCann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does gjournal complain about your drive, for example that it doesn't support BIOFLUSH? Actually yes...I meant to

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Bob Johnson
On 8/27/08, prad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to asking) is how does *nix get away without regular defrag as with windoze. Essentially, the UFS file system (and its close relatives) is intentionally fragmented in a controlled way

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Brian McCann
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Manolis Kiagias [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't have any exotic hardware myself - the article was written with standard SATA disks as examples. As I understand, the consistent message comes up when the journal is actually used to return the filesystem to

Re: sed html tags

2008-08-28 Thread Joseph Olatt
snip Hi, I have the string span 111 /span span /span And i wish to use sed to strip *only* the span tag and its contents... is this possible ? I'm trying this expression, but it doesn't work... sed 's/span [^\(/span\)]+\/span//g' file

Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Lars Stokholm
Hi, I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, because it always happens when the disk activity indicator is lit and it stops immediately when

_secure_path: cannot stat /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory

2008-08-28 Thread VeeJay
Hi there I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 production. After installation, I am getting this message when server boots Could anybody tell what does it mean and how to fix this error??? _secure_path: cannot stat /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory Have googled... without any luck... Any help

Re: _secure_path: cannot stat /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a directory

2008-08-28 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 28), VeeJay said: Hi there I have installed FreeBSD 7.0 production. After installation, I am getting this message when server boots Could anybody tell what does it mean and how to fix this error??? _secure_path: cannot stat /dev/null/.login_conf: Not a

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Thursday, August 28, 2008 a las 07:07:44PM +0200, Lars Stokholm escribió: Hi, I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, because

Re: sed html tags

2008-08-28 Thread An
yes, it does work perfectly with the example I gave... the actual file is some like ... span 111 span www no /span /span span yyy /span span yyy /span ... your command only returns ]# sed 's/\(span .*.*\/span\)\(.*\)\(span .*.*\/span\)/\2/' file I wish to

32-bit fbsd binaries on amd64 (we can already run 32bit linux/fc4 stuff, so this should work, right?)

2008-08-28 Thread Steve Franks
I've been reading the wine64 wiki. I've also seen some of myself other's questions in this general direction (not wine specifically, but anything 64 vs 32) go by. Near as I can tell, the big hangup is having 32-bit libs (i.e for X) hanging around on your system. Now, I'm sure, as usual, I'm

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 11:03:49AM -0400, Brian McCann wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:51 AM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does gjournal complain about your drive, for example that it doesn't support BIOFLUSH? Actually yes...I meant to post them in my last message, but hit send

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 05:44:32PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a few days ago (un-related to FreeBSD problems I think)...but when they came

Re: gjournal fsck

2008-08-28 Thread Pawel Jakub Dawidek
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:43:58AM -0400, Brian McCann wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian McCann wrote: Hi all. I'm having some problems with several servers I've built recently (7.0-RELEASE) that are using gjournal. I had two reboot a few

Re: Proxying broadcasts? SOLVED

2008-08-28 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hey, The simple answer is no: if you want subnet-local broadcast traffic to be received, then your DB servers and your clients need to be on the same subnet. Routers are designed and required to not propagate broadcast traffic, although you could switch to doing bridging rather than

fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread Michael John Copeland
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and was wondering if i should stick with ufs, or migrate to zfs. i've read about the zfs many times on the freebsd wiki, and it seems

Network Card issues logging and aMule

2008-08-28 Thread disappearedng
Hi everyone I am currently using Marvell Yukon's 88E8053 Network card and after a few searches on google, i noticed that this card has a few issues. Fortunately, I could use the network card without the need to do any manual labor. However, I noticed that the network card crashes after perhaps 72

Re: sed html tags

2008-08-28 Thread Joseph Olatt
On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 03:04:22PM -0400, An wrote: yes, it does work perfectly with the example I gave... the actual file is some like ... span 111 span www no /span /span span yyy /span span yyy /span ... your command only returns ]# sed 's/\(span

Re: fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread craig001
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and was wondering if i should stick with ufs, or migrate to zfs. i've read about the zfs many times on the freebsd wiki, and it seems

BSD Process, etc Limits....

2008-08-28 Thread Agus
Hi guys I've been googleing regarding this subject - Limiting users in mem, proc and more- for a while now and think that the best and more documented or at least the one that came in all my search results is using login.conf... Just wanted to ask if there is something in particular i should

Re: BSD Process, etc Limits....

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've been googleing regarding this subject - Limiting users in mem, proc and more- for a while now and think that the best and more documented or at least the one that came in all my search results is using login.conf... yes this is exactly the way to do this. but it doesn't work for multiple

Re: 32-bit fbsd binaries on amd64 (we can already run 32bit linux/fc4 stuff, so this should work, right?)

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Now, I'm sure, as usual, I'm being naive, but: 1) We can run 32-bit linux on amd64, so do we have 32-bit freebsd libs already? yes. 2) If we don't have the 32-bit libs, is it possible to steal them base system's 32-bit libs are installed by default, for older version through

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, because it always happens when the disk activity indicator is lit and it stops immediately when

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
any kind of problems; I use mineone for writing stuff and reading with KDE's konqueror, as well without any issues; the installation was done in both cases follwing this guide: http://www.unixarea.de/installEeePC.txt just a comment - with 7.x it would be much better to make /tmp as tmpfs - it

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Essentially, the UFS file system (and its close relatives) is intentionally fragmented in a controlled way as the files are written, exactly that was invented over 20 years ago and still it works perfect. at sort-of-random locations all over the disk, rather than starting at it's

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
you will get block arranged like this (where 1 is file 1's data,2 is data from file 2 and 3 from file 3): 123123123123123123123123213213 This is just untrue. I don't much like Microsoft, but I don't think i AM sure it is like that under DOS up to 6.2 (where i tested it), and almost sure

Re: fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hello All, I am building a fileserver to store ripped movies, cds, etc on, to be used also as a home media center connected to tv. i'm going to use 1TB drives and UFS works perfect on my 6*500GB gstriped volume. RAID5 will be OK but for large files, for small files writes will be suboptimal

Re: fileserver questions

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I personally would consider zfs on freeBSD as unstable/experimental on everything apart from AMD64's with loads of RAM to spare. I have tried tuning for large files UFS offers near-raw performance. it can't be much better. it can be less efficient on concurrent operations because MAXBSIZE is

Re: Network Card issues logging and aMule

2008-08-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi everyone I am currently using Marvell Yukon's 88E8053 Network card and after a few searches on google, i noticed that this card has a few issues. Fortunately, I could use the network card without the need to do any manual labor. However, I noticed that the network card crashes after perhaps 72

how to run JDownloader on freebsd 7?

2008-08-28 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I just download the JDownloader to use with megaupload, I have jdk1.5 installed, but when running JDownloader.jar java JDownloader.jar, it show Exception in thread main java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: JDownloader/jar how should I do this right? thanks!! TFC

Re: How to eject an USB disk on FreeBSD

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
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 The disk is mounted by automout daemon (amd), so any access to the

Re: how to run JDownloader on freebsd 7?

2008-08-28 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 21:46:45 -0400 Tsu-Fan Cheng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: java JDownloader.jar, try java -jar JDownloader.jar _ {Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome And that's one reason we like to believe in genius. It gives us an excuse for being lazy. Paul Graham I

Re: Disk access is slowing my Eee PC

2008-08-28 Thread Yi Wang
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:07 AM, Lars Stokholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've successfully installed FreeBSD 7-STABLE on my Eee PC 900. Just one problem. Quite regularly the machine becomes unresponsive. I asume because of something reading from or writing from the SSD, because it always

might be OT, sorry.

2008-08-28 Thread Gary Kline
I have searched the OO website and read the manual with OO [2.4.0], but have not been able to find this one. Can anyone tell me how to replace 4 underscores with 4 Section characters? In HTML; the section symbols are printed by typing sect; Yes, it is that simple. I can locate the

Wine security question...

2008-08-28 Thread Christopher Joyner
Is it possible to use wine in a secure way? I had a warning about it after installing it from the ports. So I was wondering if it's possible to limit it to a certain area. Like a sandbox? In Love in Jesus Christ, Or Lord and Savior. For God so loved the world, that he gave his only

Where is wrong with tcpdump?

2008-08-28 Thread EdwardKing
I want to watch ip:172.0.10.2 port:19 TCP information,so I use following command: #tcpdump tcp port 19 host 172.0.10.2 tcpdump: syntax error Why? How to do it? Thanks -- Confidentiality Notice: The

Re: Where is wrong with tcpdump?

2008-08-28 Thread Olivier Nicole
tcpdump tcp port 19 host 172.0.10.2 tcpdump tcp port 19 and host 172.0.10.2 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:33:35 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CP/M was single-user and was used on floppies up to 360kB AFAIK, And MP/M was multi-user, using the same filesystem. From memory, there was perhaps one byte that indicated which user owned a file :) NTFS

Re: Where is wrong with tcpdump?

2008-08-28 Thread Paul A. Procacci
EdwardKing wrote: I want to watch ip:172.0.10.2 port:19 TCP information,so I use following command: #tcpdump tcp port 19 host 172.0.10.2 tcpdump: syntax error Why? How to do it? Thanks --

Re: defrag

2008-08-28 Thread RW
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 02:43:40 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you will get block arranged like this (where 1 is file 1's data,2 is data from file 2 and 3 from file 3): 123123123123123123123123213213 This is just untrue. I don't much like Microsoft, but I don't

Make World Inside Jail

2008-08-28 Thread Jason C. Wells
I currently use a separate machine to make world and to make and archive ports and packages. I would like to retire that machine and move that functionality into a jail. I am due to switch to 7.1 from 6.3 soon. I understand that I cannot run divergent kernels in the jails. I could still make

RE: OT:KVM Switch

2008-08-28 Thread Jerry Dunham
On 27 Aug 2008 at 22:46, David Christensen wrote: Mark Busby wrote: Looking at a Trendnet KVM TK-407K switch. It shows to work with linux. Has anyone had success using it with FreeBSD?  I hate to waste time and money, even with the option of resale on eslay.  Thanks for your time. I don't

Why tcpdump don't work?

2008-08-28 Thread EdwardKing
I have a server and a client,they use TCP to communication.For example,when client send a message to server,the server return the same message to client,then client show it.When client or server shutdown,it will send FIN.So I want to use tcpdump to watch it. The server and client in the same

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