Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 06:44:28PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Do you know who Boris is? checked a FreeBSD site - he is a listed as a developer. but how does it compare to what i said about logo of main webpage and improving website. What I can gather from this thread is that he, as a

interrupt storm on irq 10

2009-05-27 Thread Andrew Gould
I purchased a NetGear WPN511 cardbus wireless adapter (atheros chipset) yesterday. The card uses irq 10, as does the firewire port and ethernet port (fxp0) on my Dell Inspiron 8100. The laptop is running FreeBSD 7.2 Release (generic kernel). When I bootup the laptop with the wireless adapter in

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. Ok, got it. I'm pretty much taking an easy day today to recover my broken

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. Kurt, can you please provide: # uname -a - the default tag you use in your

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:02, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent off-list. Kurt,

Re: Formatted text conversion

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:41:56 Kelly Jones wrote: I have e-books in several formats (DOC, LIT, PDF, RTF, HTML, TXT, etc). Is there a Unix command-line tool that converts between these formats? If not, is there at least a tool that converts these formats to TXT? My goal is to read these

Re: Fwd: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Steve Bertrand
Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:02, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:51, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Can you post the patch, and I'll test it out here? (Forgive me if you've done this and I missed it). Steve Sent

RE: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Knipe
From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: 27 May 2009 05:57 PM To: Zbigniew Szalbot Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; utis...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD as usually - i speak for myself. and will keep

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem, but don't know how to install the updated port. I cd'ed into the

Re: A FreeBSD program that rotates text

2009-05-27 Thread Charlie Kester
On Tue 26 May 2009 at 12:35:38 PDT Polytropon wrote: Dear list, I'm searching for a FreeBSD based means to align text in a circle, adjusted like in a sigulum. I've tried to find an option in OpenOffice, but failed. Can anyone name me a program that can be used to do so? It can even be LaTeX,

Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Jeremy
On 2009-May-27 09:47:24 +0200, Stephan Lichtenauer fbsdli...@honeyguide.net wrote: Acer Aspire ONE. I haven't got comments from these lists about that I have the SSD version and everything except the webcam and suspend/ resume works out of the box. What FreeBSD version are you using? FreeBSD

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:52:33AM -0500, Kirk Strauser wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 11:40:51 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: you talk about performance or if it work at all? Both, really. If they have to code up macros to support identical operations (such as addition) on both platforms,

Re: interrupt storm on irq 10

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 12:51:45PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote: [...] Are interrupt storms a problem? Do I need to worry about them? If so, is there anything I can do about them? Have run across interrupt storms for the first time myself last night. Am thinking they are from interrupt sources

Re: Formatted text conversion

2009-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 08:41:56AM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: I have e-books in several formats (DOC, LIT, PDF, RTF, HTML, TXT, etc). Is there a Unix command-line tool that converts between these formats? Not a single tool. Although some conversions are possible using different tools.

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
mainstream, or because i have opinion at all, i just respond normally. Wojtek - I also think you have the capacity to help and you often do. But don't pretend to be speaking for the FreeBSD team because you are doing reread my posts. i didn't speak for them and i said that i'm not them. i AS

RE: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Of course - ban it! Just my 2c... Snotty comments like this in a public forum, is exactly why I no longer use FreeBSD. Just about everything in these mailing lists turns If you stopped using FreeBSD BECAUSE OF FORUM, congratulations ;) This means that OS functionality is not important for

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the proper typedefs to create them. int, short and char are portable, only other things

Re: How to detect when gmirror sync is complete?

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 22:33:54 Peter Steele wrote: I know I could have a script that continually checks gmirror status to detect when a gmirror synchronization has completed, but is there a more event-driven approach? Something that could be used to trigger and event like devd does for drive

Re: Patching? Probably a trivial question, but...

2009-05-27 Thread Kurt Buff
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:36, Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Wednesday 27 May 2009 17:21:42 Kurt Buff wrote: All, I've gotten a patch for a program in the ports tree from one of the authors of the program - not the port maintainer - to fix a small problem,

Re: interrupt storm on irq 10

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
My source of interrupt storms was caused by a bad SATA cable. Installed a new VIA 6421-based SATA card (selected because it was only $15) and two new hard drives for the purpose of copying files off two older drives. New drives were detected but ad4 did not work when ad6 did. Swapped drives and

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Tuesday 26 May 2009 02:08:38 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On May 25, 2009 4:02:57 PM -0700 Carlos Pardo cpa...@fastsoft.com wrote: We are back porting the bce driver from 8.0 to 7.0. We are still missing some changes since cold boots work but rebooting (warm booting) fails! The error is:

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 25 May 2009 15:41:04 Jos Chrispijn wrote: I have some short movies (a la YouTube) that I would like to show as video streams. Presenting them by download is messing up my bandwidth (...). Can someone tell me if there is a simple solution installing such a stream service/server into

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Why would you need to do that? There is a bce driver in the 7.x OS already. Cause it's unstable? Search these or many other archives. The short answer: under IO load the card drops net link or panics kernel. is it any recipe to trigger that behaviour? i have that card (builtin) on loaded

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
stream service/server into FreeBDS 7.2? Err, this thread is very long...can we blame our snuggle Pole or did no one mention convert to ogg-theora and install audio/ices2+audio/icecast2. but is it for video? seems like sound broadcast ___

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Of course - ban it! Just my 2c... Snotty comments like this in a public forum, is exactly why I no longer use FreeBSD.  Just about everything in these mailing lists turns If you stopped using FreeBSD

Re: How to detect when gmirror sync is complete?

2009-05-27 Thread Glen Barber
Hi, Peter On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 4:33 PM, Peter Steele pste...@webmail.maxiscale.com wrote: I know I could have a script that continually checks gmirror status to detect when a gmirror synchronization has completed, but is there a more event-driven approach? Something that could be used to

Re: turning [x]html files into .odt files.

2009-05-27 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 05:21:26PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote: 2009/5/26 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: [[ ... ]] In a few days, I'll have a fair bit of spare time. I can make a port then, if no-one more experienced wants to snap it up. Like your Jottings, by the way.

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
no longer use FreeBSD.  Just about everything in these mailing lists turns If you stopped using FreeBSD BECAUSE OF FORUM, congratulations ;) This means that OS functionality is not important for you at all! Well, that certainly doesn't follow. exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:37:47 Wojciech Puchar wrote: Why would you need to do that? There is a bce driver in the 7.x OS already. Cause it's unstable? Search these or many other archives. The short answer: under IO load the card drops net link or panics kernel. is it any recipe to

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
loaded server with 2 months uptime and with quite lot of traffic going through that card. Don't have local archives handy, but here ya go: http://www.google.com/search?hl=ensafe=offclient=operarls=enhs=H9jnum=30q=bce+problem+freebsd+site%3Alists.freebsd.orgbtnG=Search -- Mel tomorrow i will

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
but is it for video? seems like sound broadcast It doesn't care what's inside the ogg container: http://www.theora.org/benefits/ good. i was suggested by /usr/ports/audio/ anyway for just playing static video/audio files on user request it's just exaggeration.

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:24:17PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the proper typedefs to

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while stopping using it because of forum - still read and posts here. None of your concern: this is just what everybody is writing about. Whether someone is using FreeBSD or not, and reading here or not, is irrelevant to most (and probably to all)

Re: interrupt storm on irq 10

2009-05-27 Thread David Kelly
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:30:19PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I'm not telling that you are wrong that cable produced this, but i can't find any explanation for that. One two-port controller card, two drives, two cables. Interrupt storms move from one port to the other with the suspect

Re: FreeBSD Software RAID

2009-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:24:17PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I haven't looked at the ZFS code but this sort of thing is exactly why all code I write uses int8_t, int16_t, int32_t, uint8_t, ... even when the first thing I have to do with a new compiler is to work out the proper typedefs

Re: Stable Mail Server And Web Mail

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Monday 25 May 2009 13:53:40 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, Hello all , I want to install a Mail Server with Webmail, Anybody to know a good Stable Mail Server and Web Mail I recommend the following step-by-step instructions: http://www.purplehat.org/?page_id=4 It's a detailed

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Polytropon
On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:02:08 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com wrote: You could write a script that sends uptime output and a start/stop flag to a database when the system starts and stops. This wouldn't account for improper shutdowns, although you could tell when a stop date/time

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while stopping using it because of forum - still read and posts here. None of your concern: this is just what everybody is writing about. Whether someone is using FreeBSD or not, and reading

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:38:32 Wojciech Puchar wrote: stream service/server into FreeBDS 7.2? Err, this thread is very long...can we blame our snuggle Pole or did no one mention convert to ogg-theora and install audio/ices2+audio/icecast2. but is it for video? seems like sound

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Boosten
Wojciech Puchar wrote: no longer use FreeBSD. Just about everything in these mailing lists turns If you stopped using FreeBSD BECAUSE OF FORUM, congratulations ;) This means that OS functionality is not important for you at all! Well, that certainly doesn't follow. exactly does. i just

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread prad
On Wed, 27 May 2009 19:34:04 +0200 Chris Knipe sav...@savage.za.org wrote: Snotty comments like this in a public forum, is exactly why I no longer use FreeBSD. i really don't understand this. it would make sense for you to ignore the forum, but why take it out on the os? -- In friendship,

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: mainstream, or because i have opinion at all, i just respond normally. Wojtek - I also think you have the capacity to help and you often do. But don't pretend to be speaking for the FreeBSD team because you are doing reread my posts.

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Boosten
Wojciech Puchar wrote: exactly does. i just don't catch why he - while stopping using it because of forum - still read and posts here. None of your concern: this is just what everybody is writing about. Whether someone is using FreeBSD or not, and reading here or not, is irrelevant to most

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Boris Samorodov
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl writes: 1. Monthly sponsoring of around 50 to 100 USD (restore a quote Wojciech deletted intentionally) add two zeroes to this values then maybe FreeBSD core team will be interested. of course i can't speak of them, but i think so. No,

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 21:59:58 Wojciech Puchar wrote: but is it for video? seems like sound broadcast It doesn't care what's inside the ogg container: http://www.theora.org/benefits/ good. i was suggested by /usr/ports/audio/ anyway for just playing static video/audio files on user

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Knipe
On 27/05/09 12:40 -0700, prad wrote: On Wed, 27 May 2009 19:34:04 +0200 Chris Knipe sav...@savage.za.org wrote: Snotty comments like this in a public forum, is exactly why I no longer use FreeBSD. i really don't understand this. it would make sense for you to ignore the forum, but why take

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I don't see what static content has got to do with it. OP wants a different delivery method. Just like you can download the static FreeBSD DVD via ftp/http or torrent. i said exaggeration, not wrong way. if there is a requirement to use THAT delivery method from client, you are absolutely

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 27 May 2009 at 09:44:03 PDT Glen Barber wrote: This is enough. I agree. It is characteristic of flamewars that the participants are no longer talking about anything except each other. It's entirely off-topic. I don't know which is more tiresome, Wojciech's edgy remarks or the

removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread herbert langhans
Hi Daemons, a short question: I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such).. Thanks herb langhans ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread prad
On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:30:01 +0200 Chris Knipe sav...@savage.za.org wrote: If you want the world to believe you have a mature OS, *ACT* like you have a mature OS... i think it is a good idea for people to act maturely on forums otherwise we stop communicating and start screammunicating.

removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread Robert Huff
herbert langhans writes: I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such).. If you want to be selective, try portsclean which is part of portupgrade(-*).

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
thread is a PERFECT example there of, but there are many, many, many threads that got COMPLETELY derailed because someone said the smallest little thing that annoyed someone else. GROW UP PEOPLE FFS. no matter what you think and what your opinion is, you will always find part of forum users

UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Graham Bentley
Hello, I have jsut loaded up 7.2, fetched the ports and installed xorg / fluxbox etc - for first time my kb / mouse didnt work in xorg but now I have that sorted with enabling hald etc However, I have noticed that the GBP symbol does not work? In console I get a beep, in xorg nothing. I have

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Karl Vogel
On Tue, 26 May 2009 23:14:10 -0400, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca said: S Just a little bit of sadness of having to 'down' it, given this uptime in S my relatively hostile environment. *sigh* I'll match your sigh and add some curse-words. One of our fileservers: date: Mon May 18

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Karl Vogel
On Wed, 27 May 2009 09:02:08 -0500, Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com said: A You could write a script that sends uptime output and a start/stop A flag to a database when the system starts and stops. This wouldn't A account for improper shutdowns, although you could tell when a stop A

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have jsut loaded up 7.2, fetched the ports and installed xorg / fluxbox etc - for first time my kb / mouse didnt work in xorg but now I have that sorted with enabling hald etc sorry if stupid question, but have xorg got radical changes within last months? I never needed hald to have

Re: Another uptime story

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
date: Mon May 18 09:03:09 EDT 2009 uname: FreeBSD 4.9-RELEASE #0 uptime: 9:03AM up 732 days, 11:36, 0 users Hardly possible in Poland. i can't imagine 2 years without power failures :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, a short question: I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? Sure. Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such).. They won't. But they'll have to

Re: Broadcom NetXtreme II BCM5709 Gigabit Ethernet Dell 610 and Dell 710 servers

2009-05-27 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, May 27, 2009 14:32:30 -0500 Mel Flynn mel.flynn+fbsd.questi...@mailing.thruhere.net wrote: On Tuesday 26 May 2009 02:08:38 Paul Schmehl wrote: --On May 25, 2009 4:02:57 PM -0700 Carlos Pardo cpa...@fastsoft.com wrote: We are back porting the bce driver from 8.0 to 7.0. We

RE: Is this a gmirror bug?

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Steele
did you checked that partitions with fsck? (fsck_ffs -y) does it detects errors and fix them? after fsck is it ok or still nonsense in Used? Unfortunately I did not do the fsck. We have an automated reimaging process that lets me rebuild a system in less than five minutes so I decided for

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/5/27 Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl: thread is a PERFECT example there of, but there are many, many, many threads that got COMPLETELY derailed because someone said the smallest little thing that annoyed someone else.  GROW UP PEOPLE FFS. no matter what you think and what

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Mel Flynn
On Wednesday 27 May 2009 22:34:36 Wojciech Puchar wrote: I don't see what static content has got to do with it. OP wants a different delivery method. Just like you can download the static FreeBSD DVD via ftp/http or torrent. i said exaggeration, not wrong way. if there is a requirement

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 27 May 2009 23:10:24 +0200 (CEST) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I have jsut loaded up 7.2, fetched the ports and installed xorg / fluxbox etc - for first time my kb / mouse didnt work in xorg but now I have that sorted with enabling hald etc sorry if

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Graham Bentley
sorry if stupid question, but have xorg got radical changes within last months? Xorg -version = 1.6.1 compiled from msot recent ports Initially mouse and keyboard didnt work even with correct xorg settings. Now you need hald_enable=YES and dbus_enable=YES in /etc/rc.conf and the ms / kbd will

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Graham Bentley
What this means is that to get a UK keyboard layout in xorg you need a file in /usr/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/ I've named my copy 10-x11-keyboard.fdi and it contains: ?xml version=1.0 encoding=ISO-8859-1? deviceinfo version=0.2 device match key=info.capabilities

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread prad
On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:20:15 +0100 Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com wrote: - post ONLY about FreeBSD. FreeBSD == what is created by FreeBSD fundation and contributors. But you're the troublemaker that needs shutting up. i don't see the matureness of comments like this. possibly you meant

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Server 1.5.3 also really wants to configure its input devices via hald. This is causing some issues with moused and /dev/sysmouse. There are a couple of options for how to deal one more question - does it mean that it really wants or you don't have a choice at all. I'm asking to know if

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
- post ONLY about FreeBSD. FreeBSD == what is created by FreeBSD fundation and contributors. But you're the troublemaker that needs shutting up. i don't see the matureness of comments like this. possibly you meant it in a different way. of course it's very mature response :) it was repeated

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread herbert langhans
Thanks, quite some GB I could clean out on my workstation running on a good(?) old(!) 20GB harddisk.. herb langhans On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, a short question:

Re: Streaming server

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
DEST STATE AGE EXP PKTS BYTES 62.75.158.169:8020 4:4 05:03:05 23:59:59 380K 296M 5 hours of online radio and I downloaded 296Meg. I don't want that hitting my harddisk at all. And if I do, then I can always record it. you don't have to. use for example

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Once again - please do moderated forum that posting rules will be - post ONLY about FreeBSD. FreeBSD == what is created by FreeBSD fundation and contributors. This means - base system+port system. And mean for example that: But you're the troublemaker that needs shutting up. I'm very sorry

RE: Is this a gmirror bug?

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
does it detects errors and fix them? after fsck is it ok or still nonsense in Used? Unfortunately I did not do the fsck. We have an automated reimaging process that lets me rebuild a system in less than five minutes so I decided for expediency to do this. If I see this happen again though, I'll

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread ill...@gmail.com
2009/5/27 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:43:51PM +0200, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Daemons, a short question: I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? Sure. Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such)..

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 09:21:19PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: mainstream, or because i have opinion at all, i just respond normally. Wojtek - I also think you have the capacity to help and you often do. But don't pretend to be speaking for the FreeBSD team because you are doing reread my

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 02:38:46PM -0500, Neal Hogan wrote: On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:22 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Of course - ban it! Just my 2c... Snotty comments like this in a public forum, is exactly why I no longer use FreeBSD.  Just about

RE: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Gary Gatten
PLEASE can we move on now! I prefer not to filter people cause on rare occasions everyone has something useful or funny to say and I don't want to miss those. Everyone is right, Everyone is wrong, kiss and make up - and then PLEASE STFU! And that's said with ALL due respect and not directed

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 11:57:58PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Server 1.5.3 also really wants to configure its input devices via hald. This is causing some issues with moused and /dev/sysmouse. There are a couple of options for how to deal one more question - does it mean that it

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:00 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: - post ONLY about FreeBSD. FreeBSD == what is created by FreeBSD fundation and contributors. But you're the troublemaker that needs shutting up. i don't see the matureness of comments like this. possibly

Re: UK Keyboard in 7.2 console and xorg

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The xorg-server port has an option not to use hal. But it is enabled by default. indeed | |[X] HALCompile with HAL config support u :) how nice. while i have Xorg already installed when i need, and don't upgrade it (as it works fine), once again thank you very

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Sorry to wade in to this, but the reality has been and is just the oposite. It is m. Puchar who has been making reactionary responses and somewhat unkind ones at that.Is it a language issue? Or is this. please tell me (privately) the fragment that you read as this, because everything i

rsync approach

2009-05-27 Thread prad
we have 2 static ip addresses with a machine running 7.2 connected to each. one is the primary server, while the other does only dns and receives bkp dumps from the first. we want to set things up so the 2nd can be brought on line at a moment's notice. therefore, we are thinking of rsync to

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well, that certainly doesn't follow. Actually, that one does. Don't bother, he just answered that after reading wojciech puchar in mail header, so he had to be against. If you use FreeBSD because of the OS functionality/reliability, etc then trashy noise on the questions list wouldn't

RE: Is this a gmirror bug?

2009-05-27 Thread Peter Steele
How this reimaging work if i may ask? bootable DVD with unix and script that do zcat [partition image.gz] /dev/partition We have a two step process. First we run a script that creates the master image as a tgz. The image is created at an alternate root using the -C option of pkg_add and the

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
As far as having the right to post your opinion . . sure . . . but that does not mean that your opinions are just as good as others. Being of the opinion that the earth is flat is just not a very good opinion . . . no? exactly. but as you may compare some of my opinions to flat earth as i

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, First of all, if anyone is still reading it, I apologize if I sounded harsh but I do care about FreeBSD so it does bother me that potential supporters are turned down. Explanation below. anyway, i reread the original sponsoring offer and i think i understand well. so - if FreeBSD

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 5:34 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Well, that certainly doesn't follow. Actually, that one does. Don't bother, he just answered that after reading wojciech puchar in mail header, so he had to be against. No! Unless you think that fBSd is

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread prad
On Wed, 27 May 2009 17:15:58 -0500 Neal Hogan nealho...@gmail.com wrote: of course it's very mature response :) it was repeated so many times this or similar way at me that it matured! That's actually pretty funny! Nice! yes that is very well done! As far as having the right to post

RTL8111-GR driver for FreeBSD6.4

2009-05-27 Thread Troy Beisigl
Hi all, I have been looking for and have not been able to find out if there is a driver for FreeBSD6.4 that supports the RTL8111-GR network adaptor. This is a port that is built into the Intel DG31PR Motherboard. Has anyone been able to get this network card to work under 6.4? Thanks,

RE: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to miss those. Everyone is right, Everyone is wrong, kiss and make up - and then PLEASE STFU! And that's said with ALL due respect and not directed toward any one person! All this $hit DID make me realize I need to get my company to pony up some $$$ - FreeBSD has been beneficial to u, so

Re: Flamewar ( was: Sponsoring FreeBSD)

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am afraid you still do not understand it. This sponsorship offer was NOT directed to you. Neither was it to me. I did not reply to it because it was clearly addressed to the core team. it was addressed to mailing list. if he would like to address it to core team, then he would do this! to

Help logging kernel messages after failed resume

2009-05-27 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
OK, it goes like this: Dell Inspiron 1318, boot -v can be found in here: http://pastebin.com/f3a1c204a sysctl -a | grep hw.acpi | sort can be found in here: http://pastebin.com/fcfc0035 First shot: Try the Livefs CD, myhost# acpiconf -s 3 WORKS !!! The machine goes into suspend state and

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
therefore, it seems that keeping the list to fbsd issues is a valid point. Which WILL end up with moderated list within some time. Current quality will not improve, only will get worse sooner or later. The moderated list should be started quickly for simple reason: at the beginning

Re: rsync approach

2009-05-27 Thread Doug Hardie
On 27 May 2009, at 15:03, prad wrote: we have 2 static ip addresses with a machine running 7.2 connected to each. one is the primary server, while the other does only dns and receives bkp dumps from the first. we want to set things up so the 2nd can be brought on line at a moment's

Re: RTL8111-GR driver for FreeBSD6.4

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have been looking for and have not been able to find out if there is a driver for FreeBSD6.4 that supports the RTL8111-GR network adaptor. This is a port that is built into the Intel DG31PR Motherboard. Has anyone been able man 4 re says it support RTL8111 but i have FreeBSD 7.1

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
No! Unless you think that fBSd is the only functional/reliable OS. If for my needs it's actually true. Only FreeBSD meets my requirements. Wojciech, I, like many others who have responded on this thread, appreciate much of the help that you provide on this list. You seem to fail (for whatever

Re: Sponsoring FreeBSD

2009-05-27 Thread Neal Hogan
On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 6:12 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: No! Unless you think that fBSd is the only functional/reliable OS. If for my needs it's actually true. Only FreeBSD meets my requirements. slide ok . . . /slide Wojciech, I, like many others who have

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread John D. Gage III
Robert Huff wrote: herbert langhans writes: I can delete the .tar.gz files from /usr/ports/distfiles - is this correct? Not that some port tree management goes crazy (dependencies or such).. If you want to be selective, try portsclean which is part of portupgrade(-*).

Problems with IPv6 CARP Interface in PF

2009-05-27 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello: I'm having reachability problems with a CARP interface set up on two 7.1 boxes with an uplink to Cisco routers. However, the inside CARP address on the same set of PF boxes are reachable with no trouble. Here's the config. Cisco Cisco HSRP Gateway |

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread RW
On Wed, 27 May 2009 22:56:10 +0200 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Using e.g. 'portmaster --clean-distfiles-all' only removes those distfiles that do not belong to installed ports. I've not used it myself, but there is also a shell script called distviper in bsdadminscripts which

Re: removing distfiles?

2009-05-27 Thread Robert Huff
RW writes: Personally I much prefer the less aggressive mode (distclean -D) which deletes files unreferenced by the ports tree, rather than unreferenced by installed ports. I use -DD. With nearly 1000 ports on one machine, it's important to realize many ports go months (and some

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