Re: Error Compiling Open Office

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Chris, have you loaded the linprocfs as suggested? ( i don't know if this is important ) i just finished the oo2.0 build on my 6.0 machine ( ports tree not current though ) jumping through all java hoops was the worst part of it all. i compiled -DWITHOUT_MOZILLA. regards, usleep On 3/29/06,

Re: zope-3.2.0 and plone trouble

2006-03-30 Thread Gerhard Schmidt
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 09:34:28AM +0100, Michel Le Cocq wrote: Hi, I just install zope-3.2.0 and made it working just well. Now I wanted to run plone on it so i go to /usr/portswww/plone and type make install, and there, it install zope-2.7.8_1 and also python-2.3.5_1 (i already had

How do you divide your network?? (do you use vlan??)

2006-03-30 Thread Mark Jayson Alvarez
Hi, How do you divide your network?? Our current setup looks like this. Given all switch are unmanaged. 1 pc router has two interfaces. 1st is the uplink to the internet and the 2nd is connected to our private lan switch. Now this private lan switch is then connected to each switch of every

Re: Indiana goes to DST

2006-03-30 Thread James Long
Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:08:41 -0500 From: DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Indiana goes to DST To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed x x 2 Eastern Time - Michigan - most locations

portsnap FAILS! (why?!)

2006-03-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
this way [EMAIL PROTECTED] portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... using portsnap2.FreeBSD.org. Fetching public key... failed. on FreeBSD-6.0/amd64, while working perfect on other machine with exactly same version of portsnap. the difference is that other machine chooses

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Miguel, On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:09:26PM -0600, Miguel wrote: Hi, im loading a lot of information to a postgresql 8.1.3 database, im using the copy command, using the same file and version of postgres in gentoo it spend a few minutes (~4-5), in freebsd 6.1-beta4 it has already spent 25

Re: portsnap FAILS! (why?!)

2006-03-30 Thread Colin Percival
Wojciech Puchar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... using portsnap2.FreeBSD.org. Fetching public key... failed. Usually this is due to network problems. If you run # portsnap --debug fetch it will probably show you what the problem is. Colin

Re: portsnap FAILS! (why?!)

2006-03-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On Thu, 30 Mar 2006, Colin Percival wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] portsnap fetch Looking up portsnap.FreeBSD.org mirrors... using portsnap2.FreeBSD.org. Fetching public key... failed. Usually this is due to network problems. If you run # portsnap --debug fetch it will

6.1-PRERELEASE: pf blocks fetch after restart

2006-03-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I wrote about this some weeks ago, now I have investigated further, system upgrated to latest (yesterday) snap of RELENG_6 Summary: 1) boot 2a) fetch http://host/file: operation not permitted 2b) fetch ftp://host/file: operation not permitted 3) pfctl -Fr pfctl -Rf pf.conf 4a) fetch

Re: Soekris Net4801 performance

2006-03-30 Thread johnryan_852
Thanks for all the excellent replies to this question. Dinesh's answer looks like exactly what I'm experiencing. Unfortunately I can't use FreeBSD 4, because I don't think FASTIPSEC with the HiFn card is supported there. I tried with OpenBSD 3.8 and got similar performance to FreeBSD. I might try

Re: DVD-Slideshow

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Chris, or you could symlink to: ( if you have linux compat enabled ) /usr/compat/linux/usr/bin/seq will you let me know if this helped you? will you relay the seq-patches to the portmaintainer? regards, usleep ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Haven't been able to make world in about a year

2006-03-30 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2006-03-29 15:26, Vaaf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 14:56 29.03.2006, Duane Whitty wrote: Hi, Your previous message reminded me of a previous project you were working on which I was following closely. I was just wondering if you have had any success with make world et al? I ask because

Re: Does mod_php4 include php4?

2006-03-30 Thread S W
Bill, Thank you for the prompt response. php4 now installed without mod_php4, configured httpd.conf - and everything seems to be working. Incidentally, acid no longer needs phplot, but is using jdgraph, instead. Best wishes, boink ___

Solved: 6.1-PRERELEASE: pf blocks fetch after restart

2006-03-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Solved, I had a wrong entry in the nullnet table. Excluding the persist keyword from the table definition made things work when only the rules were flushed - then the table would be removed and not recreated when the rules were loaded again. This caused the extra confusion. Erik -- Ph:

ipfw secure setup for ssh bruteforcers

2006-03-30 Thread nawcom
I have a pretty good setup with ipfw, and theres always dickheads constantly trying to get in - mostly through old microsoft and ssh1/2 exploits with certain usernames and passwords. I pretty much add their ip to a protected ban list (after 5 tries) which bans them from the entire server. From

Timescale for 6.1-RELEASE...

2006-03-30 Thread Harrison Peter CSA BIRKENHEAD
I realise the answer to this question is when it's ready, but does anyone have a rough idea how close to being ready 6.1 is? Thanks, Peter Harrison ** This document is strictly confidential and is intended only for use by

ssh-tunnel only accounts

2006-03-30 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: How do I add a user such that he can only establish a tunnel to some other service running on the host? that is, what shell do I need? Is there a way to restrict further what services they can connect to? Thanks, Erik -- Atos Origin, Madrid Phone: +34 91 214 8617

Re: ssh-tunnel only accounts

2006-03-30 Thread Dimitar Vasilev
authpf is your answer. 2006/3/30, Erik Norgaard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi: How do I add a user such that he can only establish a tunnel to some other service running on the host? that is, what shell do I need? Is there a way to restrict further what services they can connect to? Thanks, Erik

sendmail, a couple of questions.

2006-03-30 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, My server name is mailsrv and it has two interfaces: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx =external ip, internet yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy =internal ip, private lan File /etc/hosts looks like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.com localhost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mailsrv.mydomain.com mailsrv xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-30 Thread Vaaf
Hello Vladimir! First off, thank you for your worthy input. You're a very wise man. 30 years of development and continual introduction of new features build on top of existing ones is considered a very good design. And FreeBSD is still extensible and growing, despite of its age. Yes, the

Re: sendmail, a couple of questions.

2006-03-30 Thread Chuck Swiger
Efren Bravo wrote: [ ... ] 1st. How could I avoid this error (/var/log/maillog)? Mar 29 15:52:51 mailsrv sendmail[10381]: gethostbyaddr(yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy) failed: 1 Fix your reverse DNS for that IP. If yyy is internal, set up a local nameserver to provide a reverse zone, otherwise talk to your

Deleting Kernel conpile directory

2006-03-30 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, I am running a little low on disk space in /usr Can I delete the /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel directory? If so, which method is best: a: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/compile rm -rf mykernel or b: cd /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel make clean Thanks all, -Grant

Re: Packet drops and queue length upon bandwidth limiting in PF

2006-03-30 Thread Bill Moran
Ashish Awasthi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a relative newbie, so please don't flame me if my question doesn't make sense. In a network experiment to determine appropriate length of router buffers, I am using pfctl on FreeBSD 5.3 to limit the bandwidth to 100 Mbps on a 1 Gig link and

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Miguel
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:09:26PM -0600, Miguel wrote: Hi, im loading a lot of information to a postgresql 8.1.3 database, im using the copy command, using the same file and version of postgres in gentoo it spend a few minutes (~4-5), in freebsd 6.1-beta4 it has

Re: Deleting Kernel conpile directory

2006-03-30 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running a little low on disk space in /usr Can I delete the /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel directory? Sure. And if you use the buildkernel method when you build kernels, you won't even need that directory again. If you use the old method,

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:51:15AM +0100, Chris wrote: Sorry to hear that, can you point me to the PRs you filed so I can take a look? I didnt do a PR except one for a minor bug since there was nothing logged on it just died, I have kept one machine running 6.0 so I can try and resolve

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Miguel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miguel, On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:09:26PM -0600, Miguel wrote: Hi, im loading a lot of information to a postgresql 8.1.3 database, im using the copy command, using the same file and version of postgres in gentoo it spend a few minutes (~4-5), in freebsd

ssh session hangs when term is flooded with text.

2006-03-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
When I log into any FreeBSD box through the VPN (IPsec site-to-site) my ssh session will eventually hang when a large amount of text/data is displayed, for example compiler output, running top, running links or lynx, etc. Obviously this is a networking problem but I'm not sure where to start. --

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello Vladimir! 30 years of development and continual introduction of new features build on top of existing ones is considered a very good design. And FreeBSD is still extensible and growing, despite of its age. Yes, the fact that it's still ongoing is amazing. If it has managed

RE: Is ALTQ part of 6.0 base system

2006-03-30 Thread fbsd_user
Reading the pf firewall man pages says to use ALTQ with PF a custom kernel has to be complied with the ALTQ options included. This seems to indicate that ALTQ is only available when used with the pf firewall. ALTQ used to be available as a port so it could be used stand-a-lone. Can ALTQ support

ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Vaaf
Hello! Sometimes I notice ASCII files becoming double lined. As in there somehow appearing an empty line in between every line. Why is this? And: 01 How can I detect files with double lines? 02 And then eliminate this double lining? The goal would be to apply 01 and 02 to this script:

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 08:52:43AM -0600, Miguel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miguel, On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 07:09:26PM -0600, Miguel wrote: Hi, im loading a lot of information to a postgresql 8.1.3 database, im using the copy command, using the same file and version of

Re: Deleting Kernel conpile directory

2006-03-30 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 30 Mar 2006 09:40:03 -0500, Lowell Gilbert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I am running a little low on disk space in /usr Can I delete the /usr/src/sys/i386/compile/mykernel directory? Sure. And if you use the buildkernel method when you build kernels,

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:59:36PM +0200, Vaaf wrote: Hello! Sometimes I notice ASCII files becoming double lined. As in there somehow appearing an empty line in between every line. Why is this? And: 01 How can I detect files with double lines? 02 And then eliminate this double

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
Hello! Sometimes I notice ASCII files becoming double lined. As in there somehow appearing an empty line in between every line. Why is this? And: 01 How can I detect files with double lines? 02 And then eliminate this double lining? Check out tr(1) It will quite easily remove the

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Vaaf wrote: Yes, the fact that it's still ongoing is amazing. If it has managed to keep going for 30 years, it will surely keep on going for another 30 years. What I meant was, the fundamentals for FreeBSD was set 30 years ago. Isn't it time we change that? I'm probably just trolling. I'm

Re: Is ALTQ part of 6.0 base system

2006-03-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Can ALTQ support be compiled into a custom kernel and be used stand-a-lone? They can be used in anything which is compiled to use them, yes. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Soekris Net4801 performance

2006-03-30 Thread David Kelly
On Mar 30, 2006, at 5:32 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried with OpenBSD 3.8 and got similar performance to FreeBSD. I might try NetBSD in the weekend, someone mentioned that, and it's probably a good idea. I suggested earlier that you verify how fast your disk interface runs. Am

RE: Is ALTQ part of 6.0 base system

2006-03-30 Thread fbsd_user
Then if what you say is true, there would be man pages in the base system for using ALTQ stand-a-lone and there are none. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Vaaf
At 17:20 30.03.2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello! Sometimes I notice ASCII files becoming double lined. As in there somehow appearing an empty line in between every line. Why is this? And: 01 How can I detect files with double lines? 02 And then eliminate this double lining? Check

a number of widly varied questions [FreeBSD 6.0; stdc++6, Xorg/Drivers issues, one KDE issue]

2006-03-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
Sorry if some of these aren't all exactly appropriate for here, but this seems like the best place to ask for a number of them, especially given my system is FreeBSD, and I've gotten everything from ports. I'm putting all of this in one email as just a not-so-quick, quick overview, and to ask if I

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 30 March 2006 09:04, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:59:36PM +0200, Vaaf wrote: Hello! Sometimes I notice ASCII files becoming double lined. As in there somehow appearing an empty line in between every line. Why is this? And: 01 How can I detect files

Re: Does mod_php4 include php4?

2006-03-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
S W wrote: Bill, Thank you for the prompt response. php4 now installed without mod_php4, configured httpd.conf - and everything seems to be working. Incidentally, acid no longer needs phplot, but is using jdgraph, instead. Best wishes, boink Keep in mind that PHP comes in three

Installing PHP

2006-03-30 Thread Darryl Hoar
greetings, I have a freebsd 6.0-release box. I need to install php to use with squirrelmail. When I go to /usr/ports/www and look for php4, I see a lot of sub directories with names that aren't clear as to which one installs php4. So, anybody care to clarify this for me ? Also, I need to

Teclas Mayor que y Menor que

2006-03-30 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
Hola. Tengo un problema con el teclado español de FreeBSD 6.1 beta, y es que la tecla donde estan los simbolos mayor que y menor que no funciona en el KDE 3.5.1 (en consola si que funciona)... ¿Algun tip de alguien que ya haya solucionado esto, por favor?. Muchísimas gracias. Jose. --

Re: Does mod_php4 include php4?

2006-03-30 Thread S W
Agreed, mod comes with phpN: # pkg_info | grep php php4-4.4.2_1PHP Scripting Language (Apache Module and CLI) # ...and: # httpd -t -D DUMP_MODULES Loaded Modules: core_module (static) ... 8 8 8 ... php4_module (shared) Syntax OK # Best, boink On 3/30/06, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL

Re: Installing PHP

2006-03-30 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hi Darryl, Thursday, March 30, 2006, 6:04:05 PM, you has on mind: greetings, I have a freebsd 6.0-release box. I need to install php to use with squirrelmail. When I go to /usr/ports/www and look for php4, I see a lot of sub directories with names that aren't clear as to which one

Re: sendmail, a couple of questions.

2006-03-30 Thread Derek Ragona
At 08:03 AM 3/30/2006, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, My server name is mailsrv and it has two interfaces: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx =external ip, internet yyy.yyy.yyy.yyy =internal ip, private lan File /etc/hosts looks like: 127.0.0.1 localhost.mydomain.com localhost xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Re: a number of widly varied questions [FreeBSD 6.0; stdc++6, Xorg/Drivers issues, one KDE issue]

2006-03-30 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 30 March 2006 09:48, Jim Stapleton wrote: Sorry if some of these aren't all exactly appropriate for here, but this seems like the best place to ask for a number of them, especially given my system is FreeBSD, and I've gotten everything from ports. I'm putting all of this in one

Re: sendmail, a couple of questions.

2006-03-30 Thread wc_fbsd
At 11:33 AM 3/30/2006, you wrote: File /etc/hosts looks like: xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mailsrv.mydomain.com mailsrv xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx mailsrv.mydomain.com. don't have duplicate names to different IP's. Also be sure you have dotted fully qualified names for both IP's. FWIW, the double

Re: Teclas Mayor que y Menor que

2006-03-30 Thread guru
El día Thursday, March 30, 2006 a las 06:10:22PM +0200, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez escribió: Hola. Tengo un problema con el teclado español de FreeBSD 6.1 beta, y es que la tecla donde estan los simbolos mayor que y menor que no funciona en el KDE 3.5.1 (en consola si que funciona)...

Re: getop.h conflict when building audio/akode

2006-03-30 Thread Michael Nottebrock
On Thursday, 30. March 2006 09:08, Olivier Nicole wrote: Ports are up to date (30 minutes ago) That usr/local/include/getopt.h comes from libgnugetopt-1.2 (up to date too) Deinstall the libgnugetopt port - it's only needed on FreeBSD releases earlier than 5.x and causes buildtime errors on

Re: a number of widly varied questions [FreeBSD 6.0; stdc++6, Xorg/Drivers issues, one KDE issue]

2006-03-30 Thread Jim Stapleton
Thank you, that screen refresh rate seems to have fixed it. The original that xorg generated through the config script just drove my monitor bonkers (lots of shaking and a message on the screen that complained). I finally managed to get it to work forcing horiz and vert to be 60.0 (60.0-60.0 on

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
At 17:20 30.03.2006, Jerry McAllister wrote: Hello! Sometimes I notice ASCII files becoming double lined. As in there somehow appearing an empty line in between every line. Why is this? And: 01 How can I detect files with double lines? 02 And then eliminate this

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Vaaf
At 17:58 30.03.2006, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 09:04, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:59:36PM +0200, Vaaf wrote: Hello! Sometimes I notice ASCII files becoming double lined. As in there somehow appearing an empty line in between every line.

RE: Need some tips in reorganizing our LAN.

2006-03-30 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Jayson Alvarez Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 7:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need some tips in reorganizing our LAN. Hi, Right now, I'm working in a poor government agency where the network is

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 05:45:11PM +0200, Vaaf wrote: As for Mr. Kennaway, if you had a big bugger up your nose the minute you're about to go on a date, wouldn't you like an honest opinion? Are you asking me out? If so I have to tell you I don't date creatures with green scaly skin who live

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
well i am sure that you would have saved everybody ( including yourself ) a hell of a lot of time if you had called these guys: www.bsdconsulting.no or is that a risk you can't take either? ( or is bsdconsulting.no you?, then all bets are off ) i don't know why i am doing this. i have a very

Installation from usb cdrom?

2006-03-30 Thread Steve Kargl
I've never tried to install FreeBSD from a USB connected cdrom. Is this possible with FreeBSD 6.x and -current? If not, any suggetions for the installation of FreeBSD on the hyperblade nodes of an Appro mini-cluster? www.appro.com -- Steve ___

Re: Why are so many people using 4.x?

2006-03-30 Thread Chris
On 29/03/06, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 08:48:07PM +0100, Chris wrote: Well without a doubt 4.x is the fastest and most stable freebsd out of the 3. The comment earlier where it just runs and runs is a good way of describing it. 6.x is faster at

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Donald J. O'Neill
On Thursday 30 March 2006 11:27, Vaaf wrote: At 17:58 30.03.2006, Donald J. O'Neill wrote: On Thursday 30 March 2006 09:04, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:59:36PM +0200, Vaaf wrote: Hello! Sometimes I notice ASCII files becoming double lined. As in there

system monitors and SMP on FreeBSD

2006-03-30 Thread Marco Beishuizen
Hi, Is there a system monitor for freebsd that supports SMP? I've tried some (gkrellm, xosview, xsysinfo) but they all show only one cpu. Or is there a way to enable SMP in these monitors? Thanks, Marco -- If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.

Re: system monitors and SMP on FreeBSD

2006-03-30 Thread pete wright
On 3/30/06, Marco Beishuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a system monitor for freebsd that supports SMP? I've tried some (gkrellm, xosview, xsysinfo) but they all show only one cpu. Or is there a way to enable SMP in these monitors? if you have an SMP kernel, and multiple CPU's

Re: Java and tomcat

2006-03-30 Thread David Robillard
Martin, this 'how to' isn't working... It isn't up to date, some downloads doesn't exist What can I do ? The java page on the FreeBSD server is for an old version of Tomcat and Java. To get Tomcat 5.5 running, try this instead. Note that if you don't have porteasy(1), just install it:

Re: system monitors and SMP on FreeBSD

2006-03-30 Thread Marco Beishuizen
On stardate Thu, 30 Mar 2006, the wise pete wright entered: On 3/30/06, Marco Beishuizen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Is there a system monitor for freebsd that supports SMP? I've tried some (gkrellm, xosview, xsysinfo) but they all show only one cpu. Or is there a way to enable SMP

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Miguel, 3.0G i looked at your top-screenshot, i have the impression you could dedicate far more memory to postgresql. maybe it would be usefull to post your postgresql.conf ( this is in fact a postgresql question, but i don't care ). you might want to turn fsync off, my limited knowledge about

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Kris, 3.0G Well there you go then..you're trying to access a file that is larger than RAM, so naturally you won't be able to fit it all in RAM, and with 1GB less RAM in your system you'll spend much more time reading bits of it from disk and later throwing them away. i know a bit of

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Miguel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris, 3.0G Well there you go then..you're trying to access a file that is larger than RAM, so naturally you won't be able to fit it all in RAM, and with 1GB less RAM in your system you'll spend much more time reading bits of it from disk and later throwing

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 09:41:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miguel, 3.0G i looked at your top-screenshot, i have the impression you could dedicate far more memory to postgresql. maybe it would be usefull to post your postgresql.conf ( this is in fact a postgresql question, but i

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Vaaf
At 19:38 30.03.2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 05:45:11PM +0200, Vaaf wrote: As for Mr. Kennaway, if you had a big bugger up your nose the minute you're about to go on a date, wouldn't you like an honest opinion? Are you asking me out? If so I have to tell you I don't

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Vaaf
At 19:49 30.03.2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well i am sure that you would have saved everybody ( including yourself ) a hell of a lot of time if you had called these guys: www.bsdconsulting.no or is that a risk you can't take either? ( or is bsdconsulting.no you?, then all bets are off )

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Miguel, Yes, it is a dump of a single table. i want to tranfer the data from one server to another, and this is one of the biggest table. ok, but gentoo performs the same task ok, so it is not a postgresql problem. you have not confirmed wether the gentoo-box is running with the same

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Kris, Yes, this is my impression of the problem too. Any time your process is waiting on disk I/O it is going to perform terribly (on any OS - disks are slow), and the way to fix this is to make sure it does as little I/O as possible (by allowing everything to be cached in RAM). just for my

reciept of damaged jewel cases.

2006-03-30 Thread Gmyers
Hello I ordered 5.3, 5.4, and now 6.0. ALL the jewel cases I have received are damaged. They can't store or hold the media. And the disks are scratched from the movement inside the box during shipping. This is quite frustrating. It would be embarrassing to display this media with the scratched

Re: reciept of damaged jewel cases.

2006-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 12:53:13PM -0800, Gmyers wrote: Hello I ordered 5.3, 5.4, and now 6.0. Not from this mailing list - you'll need to contact the company you bought it from. Kris pgpKXb7jBQgOW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Miguel attached is my config file, shared_buffers are 25% of total RAM im guessing that this is a disk controlled bug or something, when i execute any query involving many rows, the server response is very low, ssh, su, even copy or rename a file, cpu usage remains ~87% idle though you are

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 10:49:01PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris, Yes, this is my impression of the problem too. Any time your process is waiting on disk I/O it is going to perform terribly (on any OS - disks are slow), and the way to fix this is to make sure it does as little

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Jerry McAllister
At 19:38 30.03.2006, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 05:45:11PM +0200, Vaaf wrote: As for Mr. Kennaway, if you had a big bugger up your nose the minute you're about to go on a date, wouldn't you like an honest opinion? Are you asking me out? If so I have to tell you

Re: reciept of damaged jewel cases.

2006-03-30 Thread Lars Cleary
Gmyers wrote: Hello I ordered 5.3, 5.4, and now 6.0. ALL the jewel cases I have received are damaged. They can't store or hold the media. And the disks are scratched from the movement inside the box during shipping. This is quite frustrating. It would be embarrassing to display this media with

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread Lars Cleary
Vaaf wrote: I pointed out a flaw in FreeBSD's methodology. The fact that it doesn't have one. I thought you were using DragonFlyBSD now. Why are you complaining on this list then? As to CRLF, check google, it helps: http://galaxy.ps.uci.edu/users/esirko/howto/crlf.html And I also find you

Re: reciept of damaged jewel cases.

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
Hi Geoff, On 3/30/06, Gmyers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello I ordered 5.3, 5.4, and now 6.0. ALL the jewel cases I have received are damaged. They can't store or hold the media. And the disks are scratched from the movement inside the box during shipping. This is quite frustrating. It

Re: Teclas Mayor que y Menor que

2006-03-30 Thread Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez
On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 18:46 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: El día Thursday, March 30, 2006 a las 06:10:22PM +0200, Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez escribió: Hola. Tengo un problema con el teclado español de FreeBSD 6.1 beta, y es que la tecla donde estan los simbolos mayor que y menor que

Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Micah
I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing. firefox or thunderbird do not show up in ps (checked using ps -auwx | grep firefox). No

Re: ASCII files becoming double lined

2006-03-30 Thread usleepless
www.bsdconsulting.no or is that a risk you can't take either? ( or is bsdconsulting.no you?, then all bets are off ) no, i was trying to save you time and money. but after some googling i just discovered you are just a kid. i am a funny guy, i just might find your professor/teacher involved

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Lars Cleary
Micah wrote: I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing. firefox or thunderbird do not show up in ps (checked using ps -auwx | grep

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Michal Mertl
Miguel wrote: .. postgresql is slow for me and others wrote: ... you may have to dedicate more memory to it Sorry for the above, but I haven't seen the beginning of the thread. I don't know PostgreSQL much but I also has been recently running quite simple program on one quite large table (2

SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-30 Thread Richard P. Koett
Hello All: I'm setting up a small fileserver at home running 5.4-RELEASE. I'm booting from a small IDE hard drive and have installed a SiI3112 controller and a pair of SATA drives for data storage. Before starting I flashed the controller with latest firmware (4.2.77) and performed a low-level

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Micah
Lars Cleary wrote: Micah wrote: I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing. firefox or thunderbird do not show up in ps (checked using

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Robert Huff
Micah writes: I confirm the problem. (The thunderbird compile finished ~10 minutes ago.) Checking... All files in ~/.mozilla and its subs are owned by my user and my user's group and have rw (x for dirs) as a minimum for user (some have r and rw for group). Likewise for

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 3/30/06, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars Cleary wrote: Micah wrote: I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely nothing. Recently

Re: SiI3112 Controller Question

2006-03-30 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Richard P. Koett wrote: 1) Are these SiI3112 controllers any good? I have the option of using a HighPoint HPT372 instead but was planning to use that elsewhere. A simple google for sil3112 freebsd will return you plenty of responses which will provide an answer to your question - which is,

Re: Interface Weirdness

2006-03-30 Thread Karol Kwiatkowski
On 03/29/06 20:44, Steve Douville wrote: I have two interfaces, em0 and em1. Whenever I try to put assign an IP address to em1, the kernel crashes. I've tried different ip's and subnets, all with the same result. How can I find the error that caused it to crash? It isn't in the messages log

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Micah
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/30/06, Micah [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lars Cleary wrote: Micah wrote: I just updated my ports collection this morning and upgraded all out of date ports, including thunderbird and firefox. Now typing thunderbird or firefox on the command line does absolutely

something better then rsync for duplicating systems ... ?

2006-03-30 Thread Marc G. Fournier
I have two servers, one of them a backup of the other ... right now, I'm using rsync to do it, but since rsync has to traverse both servers file systems to do its comparison, it puts a good load on the system, and takes awhile to run ... So, are there any better tools I could be using,

Re: No shared library support for realplayer?

2006-03-30 Thread Oliver Iberien
Thanks for your response! It turns out that it is perfectly easy to start RealPlayer from within, say Firefox. Starting it from a console with KDE going doesn't work, just as you say. I have found that a lot of the errors I have, such as this one, are really just mistaken assumptions that I

Re: Cheap FreeBSD hosting?

2006-03-30 Thread Thomas
Hi Solnet (Switzerland ISP) offers dedicated server with FreeBSD for about 38$ a month. http://www.solnet.ch/produkte/server/dedicated/linux.html (the support speaks/writes english) Regards, Thomas Scott I. Remick schrieb: Well it seems my perfect FreeBSD webhost, which had great service,

formating a disk

2006-03-30 Thread Albert Shih
Hi all I've strange problem with a external disk (firewire). I don't know how I can format it. I've already format this disk (on my FreeBSD box with newfs), after that I re­format this disk with Windows XP (maybe bad idea ;-) ) and now I cannot format the disk with anything When I try fdisk

Re: terrible performance in 6.1beta4

2006-03-30 Thread Miguel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Miguel attached is my config file, shared_buffers are 25% of total RAM im guessing that this is a disk controlled bug or something, when i execute any query involving many rows, the server response is very low, ssh, su, even copy or rename a file, cpu usage remains

Re: Thunderbird and Firefox dead after portupgrade

2006-03-30 Thread Albert Shih
Le 30/03/2006 à 14:42:10-0800, Micah a écrit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1.5.0.1_2 was commited last night, so it's probably a recent breakage. I just found a bug report on it at http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=95100 So we have four confirmed cases of firefox not working.

Logitech MX700 Moiuse Prblems

2006-03-30 Thread Joe Kelsey
I have read many messages on the various lists concerning the Logitech MX700 mouse and button problems, especially with the scrolling wheel. The message that provided me the real clue to what is going on was the one to hardware@ by Joe Schmoe that went through a very complex setup involving

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