Re: spamfilter

2006-08-02 Thread David Schulz
I can only recommend a program called dspam, which is also in the ports. I personally had a very hard time to install and configure it, so this is not a praise only, but once i had it running it almost immediately started taking care on 99 percent of my spam. On Aug 1, 2006, at 7:51 PM, Dua

Fastest disk in the west or bad iozone numbers?

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
Anyone have a clue why iozone reports disk read rates of 688MegaBytes/s on a 1GB test file? Am I doing something stupid, like not converting the numbers correctly? I've attached the iozone report, It's from a single 400GB Seagate SATA drive. infomatic# iozone -az -g 1g -b ~/seagate.xls Io

user limits

2006-08-02 Thread Mihai Velicu
Can someone tell me where I can find some resources for limiting user account. As example to not execute some programs to not see the content of some folders and so on. Thank you, Mihai ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: Adding To Path

2006-08-02 Thread beno
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Did you mean to use the "-m" option? No. Someone pointed out the file to edit, which I knew existed but couldn't find ;) Thanks! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Xiao-Yong Jin wrote: Let me say it again. There are three problems we are trying to solve. a. Bandwidth. Bandwidth, IMHO, isn't that big of an issue ... the ramp up time for this, IMHO, will be slow, so the bandwidth usage will be a gradual increase ... b. Duplicates.

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Olivier Nicole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> You still can't avoid fakeries. > > Except that the fake will not bother coming back 3 times at one week > interval, just to plant his faked data. > Yes, just put it in the crontab. Easy, isn't it? > Olivier > > -- Xiao-Yong _

Re: 17" or 19"

2006-08-02 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Aug 2, 2006, at 8:00 PM, David Kelly wrote: On Aug 2, 2006, at 6:55 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: Me? I'd go for two monster 22 inch CRTs, or three 19 inch CRTs. So lacking in imagination we are. Don't settle for anything less than 30" http://www.apple.com/displays/ Don't stop there.

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
> You still can't avoid fakeries. Except that the fake will not bother coming back 3 times at one week interval, just to plant his faked data. Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-que

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
Mikhail Goriachev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > User Freebsd wrote: >> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: >> >>> This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the >>> FreeBSD main page... or "registration" in sysinstall. Isn't this how >>> everyone else handles th

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Re: 17" or 19"

2006-08-02 Thread David Kelly
On Aug 2, 2006, at 6:55 PM, Nikolas Britton wrote: Me? I'd go for two monster 22 inch CRTs, or three 19 inch CRTs. So lacking in imagination we are. Don't settle for anything less than 30" http://www.apple.com/displays/ -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] =

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
User Freebsd wrote: > On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: > >> This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the >> FreeBSD main page... or "registration" in sysinstall. Isn't this how >> everyone else handles the problem? > > User A installs FreeBSD, registers, wo

portmanager question

2006-08-02 Thread jan gestre
hi guys, sorry for this newbie question, i've been upgrading my box using portupgrade but recently i'm experiencing some wierd logs that can't be explained nor solved but luckily my box does not appear to be broken, i have a question though regarding portmanager, someone on this list recommended

Re: Intel 82563EB + Blackford on v6.1

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 6/16/06, Danial Thom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It seems that most of the new MBs with the Blackford chipset use the 82563EB dual gig intel controller. Is there support forthcoming for the controller? Has anyone tested with a blackford MB yet? Ditto... Supermicro X7DBE. Where is the driver?

Re: qauestion using ed.

2006-08-02 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 04:59:03PM -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006, Gary Kline wrote: > > > > Guys, > > > > How, pray tel, do I use ed to delete 23 lines? I can find "foo" > > with /foo, but then .,20d or .,+20d or .,+20 d don't work. > > .,.+20d > > +20d > > If y

Portmanger getting stuck in loop

2006-08-02 Thread pete wright
Hi all, I've got a portmanager question. I've been using it for quite some time on various systems with great success - until today when i ctl+c'd in the wrong terminal and broke an upgrade that was going on. Now when i try to re-run portmanger to get a list of out of date ports I am getting this

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Peter A. Giessel wrote: On 2006/08/02 15:37, User Freebsd seems to have typed: On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the FreeBSD main page... or "registration" in sysinstall. Isn't this how everyone

Re: 4TB filesystem

2006-08-02 Thread N. Harrington
--- Lutz Rabing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi all, > > is someone still working on the "bigdisk" project? > it becomes > more an more easy to create disk arrays bigger than > 2TB ... it > would be a "really nice to have" feature. > > lutz > Nice to have, but I wouldn't want to fsck it! :)

Re: Changing user password from command line

2006-08-02 Thread Micah
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: On Wednesday, 2 August 2006 at 15:53:07 +0300, Simon Phoenix wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 12:48, Mike Fern wrote: Dear all, Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from command line? We can add a user using single line pw (pw useradd),

Re: qauestion using ed.

2006-08-02 Thread Bill Campbell
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006, Gary Kline wrote: > > Guys, > > How, pray tel, do I use ed to delete 23 lines? I can find "foo" > with /foo, but then .,20d or .,+20d or .,+20 d don't work. .,.+20d +20d If you use the ``ex'' invocation of vi(m), ``20dd'' should do it. Bill -- INTERNET:

Re: 17" or 19"

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) The 19" is $100 more expensive as the 17" What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. Go for the 17" or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) 19" one. I'm not

Re: Changing user password from command line

2006-08-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 2 August 2006 at 15:53:07 +0300, Simon Phoenix wrote: > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 12:48, Mike Fern wrote: >> Dear all, >> Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from >> command line? >> We can add a user using single line pw (pw useradd), but i need >> ab

Re: Changing user password from command line

2006-08-02 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Wednesday, 2 August 2006 at 16:48:48 +0700, Mike Fern wrote: > Dear all, > Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from > command line? Of course. I thought it was the only way. $ man -k password passwd(1), yppasswd(1) - modify a user's password From that m

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread User Freebsd
On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Nikolas Britton wrote: This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the FreeBSD main page... or "registration" in sysinstall. Isn't this how everyone else handles the problem? User A installs FreeBSD, registers, works with it for a week, finds he i

qauestion using ed.

2006-08-02 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, How, pray tel, do I use ed to delete 23 lines? I can find "foo" with /foo, but then .,20d or .,+20d or .,+20 d don't work. Anybody? gary -- Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.thought.org Public service Unix ___

Re: need help troubleshooting man

2006-08-02 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 18:03, Jonathan Horne wrote: > 1) i have only one box that is running STABLE, and its my x/kde > workstation.   this is also my only computer with half-broken man pages. > 2) i have several production and development servers (no desktops), and > they are all RELENG.  all

4TB filesystem

2006-08-02 Thread Lutz Rabing
hi all, is someone still working on the "bigdisk" project? it becomes more an more easy to create disk arrays bigger than 2TB ... it would be a "really nice to have" feature. lutz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.or

Re: need help troubleshooting man

2006-08-02 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 05:14, Matti J. Karki wrote: > On 8/1/06, Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > i remember a thread from a few weeks back, that i followed closely, but > > was never able to resolve my issue as the original poster did. i have a > > 6.1-STABLE system that the bul

Re: 17" or 19"

2006-08-02 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Aug 2, 2006, at 4:25 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) The 19" is $100 more expensive as the 17" What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. Go for the 17" or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) 19" one. I'm

Re: upgrade port, a couple of questions

2006-08-02 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Scott Oertel wrote: Nicolas Blais wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:27, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, How can I see which ports depend on libgmp-4.1.4_1? If I upgrade it, the applications that are using the old libgmp would be affected? Thanks... Efren Bravo. If you go into /var/db/pk

Re: 17" or 19"

2006-08-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
> > Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) > The 19" is $100 more expensive as the 17" > What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. > Go for the 17" or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) > 19" one. I'm not that rich. Probably my doubts are rooted i

Re: Mysql from ports

2006-08-02 Thread Ron Clark
Yes, ports tree is current. I just ran cvsup yesterday. That= sould be current enough, right? Ron On Wed= Aug 2 16:25 , Eric sent: Ron Clark wrote: > Good day all, > > I am building a new server and need Mys=l. I have tried to insta= ll > 4.1 se

Re: upgrade port, a couple of questions

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
Nicolas Blais wrote: On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:27, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, How can I see which ports depend on libgmp-4.1.4_1? If I upgrade it, the applications that are using the old libgmp would be affected? Thanks... Efren Bravo. If you go into /var/db/pkg/libgmp-4.1.4_1 you

17" or 19"

2006-08-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
Two LCD screens. Both have the same resolution (1280x1024) The 19" is $100 more expensive as the 17" What would to your opinions be the right thing to do. Go for the 17" or the larger (but probably a little less crystal sharp) 19" one. I'm not that rich. Probably my doubts are rooted in this;-) Tha

Re: upgrade port, a couple of questions

2006-08-02 Thread Nicolas Blais
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 17:27, Efren Bravo wrote: > Hi, > > How can I see which ports depend on > libgmp-4.1.4_1? > > If I upgrade it, the applications that are using > the old libgmp would be affected? > > Thanks... > > Efren Bravo. If you go into /var/db/pkg/libgmp-4.1.4_1 you'll see a file

upgrade port, a couple of questions

2006-08-02 Thread Efren Bravo
Hi, How can I see which ports depend on libgmp-4.1.4_1? If I upgrade it, the applications that are using the old libgmp would be affected? Thanks... Efren Bravo. - Fight back spam! Download the Blue Frog. http://www.bluesecurity.com/register/s?user=ZWZyZW5iYQ%3D%3D __

Need help using ssh/netcat to proxy udp

2006-08-02 Thread Doug Poland
Hello, I'm trying to use ssh and netcat to forward dns queries from a 6.1-STABLE workstation to a remote 6.1-STABLE DNS server. I was inspired by the information supplied at: http://zarb.org/~gc/html/udp-in-ssh-tunneling.html The methodology is elegant and simple, but I'm unable to get it

Re: Mysql from ports

2006-08-02 Thread Gerard Seibert
Ron Clark wrote: > Good day all, > > I am building a new server and need Mysql. I have tried to install >4.1 server and 5.0 server. Both error out during the build. I try to >restart the install and it installs, but then will not start because >/var/log/mysql directory does not e

Re: Office msg system

2006-08-02 Thread bsd
> Looking for suggestions on a web based msg system for an office. People > are in and out quite a bit, they need to be able to log in from the road. > Prefer email, notes, and maybe bulletin board to notify just a group or > everyone in case of a disaster. > Ability to link into cell phone text

Re: Mysql from ports

2006-08-02 Thread Eric
Ron Clark wrote: >Good day all, > > I am building a new server and need Mys=l. I have tried to install >4.1 server and 5.0 server. Both error out durin= the build. I try to >restart the install and it installs, but then will no= start because >/var/log/mysql directory does not

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: This may sound dumb but why don't we just put a registration link on the FreeBSD main page... or "registration" in sysinstall. Isn't this how everyone else handles the problem? Not on the home page, I would suggest, because a) opt-in registrations have really low take-up

Re: Need Advice for Tuning NFS to place nice with a Netapp

2006-08-02 Thread Freminlins
On 02/08/06, N. Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Cool! Can you share with me what sort of settings you use on your boxes? sysctl/kerneltunes/mount options? This may be a disappointment to you but... I didn't have to do anything :-( All I have is rw on the client. It has taken me a over

Re: Office msg system

2006-08-02 Thread Eric
Mark Busby wrote: > Looking for suggestions on a web based msg system for an office. People are > in and out quite a bit, they need to be able to log in from the road. Prefer > email, notes, and maybe bulletin board to notify just a group or everyone in > case of a disaster. > Ability to link

Mysql from ports

2006-08-02 Thread Ron Clark
Good day all, I am building a new server and need Mys= ql. I have tried to install 4.1 server and 5.0 server. Both error out durin= g the build. I try to restart the install and it installs, but then will no= t start because /var/log/mysql directory does not exist. I create the di

Office msg system

2006-08-02 Thread Mark Busby
Looking for suggestions on a web based msg system for an office. People are in and out quite a bit, they need to be able to log in from the road. Prefer email, notes, and maybe bulletin board to notify just a group or everyone in case of a disaster. Ability to link into cell phone text msg sy

no stable zsh available in ports

2006-08-02 Thread beno0028
On 29 August 2005 the port shells/zsh-devel was removed (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=1078555+0+/usr/local/www/db/text/2005/cvs-all/20050904.cvs-all). Perhaps as a consequence, on 30 April 2006 the port shells/zsh was changed from version 4.2.6 of the stable branch to version 4.3.2

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> But the question then goes back to: can you make any kind of count out >> of cvsup servers? Someone already said they thought you couldn't. >> >> At the end of

Re: Adding To Path

2006-08-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
beno <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi; > I went to set env of my path to add another folder. Everything > *seemed* to work fine (it added, I checked) until I shelled out and > back in. Then it was gone! Here's what I tried: > > FreeBSD 5.3September 1, 1999 > FreeBSD 5.3 > serve

Re: Will 'top' display cpu stats per cpu on SMP systems?

2006-08-02 Thread Lowell Gilbert
joe mcguckin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Similar to top on Linux ? The layout is somewhat different, but yes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Unable to print

2006-08-02 Thread Gerard Seibert
I know I posted earlier about this; however, since then I have gathered more information. First, I installed LPRng and had it replace the base system. I rebooted the system and it started up fine. However, I still cannot print. I can print from within 'apsfilter' but that is it. The printer is

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Nikolas Britton wrote: On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But the question then goes back to: can you make any kind of count out of cvsup servers? Someone already said they thought you couldn't. At the end of the day, I think that unique IP address is as close as it's possib

Re: best way to copy from one fbsd box to another

2006-08-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:52:09PM -0400, David Banning wrote: > > I am installing a new server and have to copy many files from old server > to new. I have connected a windows box to each via samba, and am dragging > from one to the other via the windows box. > > This might seem like a silly ques

Re: options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, dick hoogendijk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor. I recompiled the kernel with options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console. Nice, but the charact

Re: Need Advice for Tuning NFS to place nice with a Netapp

2006-08-02 Thread N. Harrington
--- Freminlins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nicole, > > On 02/08/06, N. Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Hi > > I have several web servers that are attached to a > > Netapp (network appliance) unit via NFS-3. A few > > servers are 5.5 and a few are 6.1 for comparison > > testing. Al

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, Alex Zbyslaw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Atom Powers wrote: > > It's still going to take you at least a release to get it into the > base install. But if you can find a way to use the portsnap data and > get useful information out of the cvsup data you can probably get > numbers now wi

Systrace port status?

2006-08-02 Thread Michael Dexter
Hello, Does anyone know the status of the port of systrace to FreeBSD? The project page does not appear to be updated and the author has not replied to my e-mail. Thanks, Michael. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd

Re: piperd in top

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 02), DAve said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said: We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. But looking at top I am seei

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-08-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:56:33AM -0700, Joshua Lewis wrote: > Other then >personal preference. I have been using enlightenment for about a week >and perhaps it is something I did but my resolution is stuck at >1600x1280 at 6

Re: options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE

2006-08-02 Thread Simon Phoenix
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 16:58, dick hoogendijk wrote: > I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console > for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor. > > I recompiled the kernel with > options VESA > options SC_PIXEL_MODE > > After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console. > Nic

Re: piperd in top

2006-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 02), DAve said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > >In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said: > >>We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've > >>been watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. > >>But looking at top I am seeing a lot of processes

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way t

Re: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-08-02 Thread Nikolas Britton
On 8/2/06, Joshua Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I am actually not looking for a Windows look alike. I am simply replacing my XP system with a BSD solution. I am looking for a fast easy to configure and fun WM. I am absolutely looking for something new to use. not Windows like. Tha

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: > Dan Nelson wrote: > >In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: > >>Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder > >>which size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the > >>safest way to remove this file? >

Re: piperd in top

2006-08-02 Thread DAve
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 01), DAve said: We are in the process of getting a good hammering of spam. I've been watching my mail gateways and they are keeping up well enough. But looking at top I am seeing a lot of processes with state of piperd. Piperd means the process is wai

Re: Weird result of portupgrade -aRr concerning pkgconfig or is it pkg-config?

2006-08-02 Thread RW
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 15:00, Kevin Monceaux wrote: > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:34:46PM +0100, RW wrote: > > $ grep pkgconfig /usr/ports/MOVED > > devel/pkgconfig|devel/pkg-config|2006-05-27|Renamed to use real vendor > > package name > > > > You can probably just pkg_delete pkgconfig, and f

Re: Telecom

2006-08-02 Thread RW
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 14:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear All, > > Can we use FreeBSD in Telecom industry? If I want to build an Internet > Backbone which connect across country in asia. Is it suitable? How is > its stability of routing compare to Cisco? Internet backbone router don't ru

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way to remove this file? If its timestamp updates when you touch a file on the

Re: removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 02), Scott Oertel said: > Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which > size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way > to remove this file? If its timestamp updates when you touch a file on the main filesystem, it's

RE: Replacing windows XP at home.

2006-08-02 Thread Joshua Lewis
I am actually not looking for a Windows look alike. I am simply replacing my XP system with a BSD solution. I am looking for a fast easy to configure and fun WM. I am absolutely looking for something new to use. not Windows like. That is why I was looking at enlightenment and fluxbo

removing large files (lost+found)

2006-08-02 Thread Scott Oertel
Yesterday after an fsck a file was placed in the lost+found folder which size was exactly the size of the drive (450gb). What is the safest way to remove this file? Thanks, Scott Oertel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I have SATA one cables/connectors, and they do come loose when fiddling in the case, but otherwise they are fine (when the case is closed and the machine is running. However, I do prefer the locking cables and jacks in SATA II. You might look at Newegg as your vendor, I believe I saw some there:

Broadcom BCM5780 NIC on fujitsu primergy 220 server

2006-08-02 Thread ovidiu ene
Hi, I've found this post: http://www.mail-archive.com/freebsd-net@freebsd.org/msg19247.html It seems that support for BCM5780 was added into bge driver, in CURRENT, so i've cvsuped, and tried, and still not working. Anybody have an ideea howto solve this problem? (I have a Fujitsu Primergy

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Morse
No, they were all normal (the latter two were 0, the first was about 110). FWIW, the query usually proceeds normally; it's only when it doesn't that things go bad. I'm wondering if this is a problem with threads -- I've been doing research, and a number of places say that there are threadi

Re: SATA Cables Suck!

2006-08-02 Thread Eric
On 1 Aug 2006 at 17:23, Nikolas Britton wrote: > The number one problem I've had with SATA RAIDs has been the cables! 4 > times I've lost arrays because the cables came loose or some other > stupid problem with the cables. > > I need a vendor that has high quality latching SATA-II cables. Also...

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I thought there were mysql forums, but I am not sure. In the queries I gave you, none of the results were too large I take it (not above the low thousands)? -Jim Stapleton On 8/2/06, Richard Morse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi! All of these queries worked just fine, without causing any proble

Re: Weird result of portupgrade -aRr concerning pkgconfig or is it pkg-config?

2006-08-02 Thread Kevin Monceaux
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:34:46PM +0100, RW wrote: > $ grep pkgconfig /usr/ports/MOVED > devel/pkgconfig|devel/pkg-config|2006-05-27|Renamed to use real vendor > package name > > You can probably just pkg_delete pkgconfig, and fix-up the dependencies. > Between the two you probably need to in

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Morse
Hi! All of these queries worked just fine, without causing any problems. As this is more of a mysql issue, do you have any suggestions where it would be best for me to query them? Thanks, Ricky On Aug 2, 2006, at 9:36 AM, Jim Stapleton wrote: Not sure, seems more of a mysql question, bu

options VESA SC_PIXEL_MODE

2006-08-02 Thread dick hoogendijk
I followed some advice on how to get higher resolutions on the console for my 1280x1024 LCD monitor. I recompiled the kernel with options VESA options SC_PIXEL_MODE After a vidcontrol MODE_282 I get a 1280x1024 console. Nice, but the characters are just "fat" compared to the chars I get in Xorg r

anyone have any luck on installing FreeBSD on a SATA drive on an Adaptec 1205SA card?

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
I got this thinking adaptec would make their own chip, turns out it is a SiL 3112 (I got it to hopefully end the issues I was having with the SiL 2114 on my motherboard, turns out I just ended up with more). Anyway, while this new chip fixed the issues of write errors in windows, BSD cannot boot

Re: Understanding top and memory usage

2006-08-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Philip Radford wrote: [ ... ] When using the top command I get the following in regards to memory usage. Mem: 223M Active, 970M Inact, 175M Wired, 50M Cache, 112M Buf, 73M Free Swap: 3029M Total, 12K Used, 3029M Free Can someone advise me which figure relates to actual physical memory which is

Re: gcc: cpp pre-defined variables

2006-08-02 Thread Chuck Swiger
Lorin Lund wrote: How can I find all the variables that are pre-defined in the pre-processor. Do these come from a configuration file? Or are the compiled in to cpp when it is ported to a platform? Something like: touch test.h; cpp -dM test.h ...will show you all of the predefined ma

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Jim Stapleton
Not sure, seems more of a mysql question, but here's some guesses I have for diagnostics. could you run these queries? SELECT COUNT(*) FROM users WHERE status < 3 SELECT COUNT(*) FROM sessiions WHERE sid = "d9fe25949f79f2c767a0d237b4fdf841" SELECT COUNT(*) FROM FROM users u INNER JOIN sessions s

Re: Weird result of portupgrade -aRr concerning pkgconfig or is it pkg-config?

2006-08-02 Thread RW
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 13:22, Bobby Knight wrote: > HelloNewly installed 6.1. Barely touched ports so one would expect it > to work, yet it fails brutally for me as a new user when I do portupgrade > -arR just to upgrade a few packages.I have no clue why and what to do > so I am hopin

Re: Weird result of portupgrade -aRr concerning pkgconfig or is it pkg-config?

2006-08-02 Thread Kevin Monceaux
Bobby, On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 02:22:18PM +0200, Bobby Knight wrote: > HelloNewly installed 6.1. I recently said hello to a newly installed FreeBSD 6.1 myself. > Barely touched ports so one would expect it to work, That sounds like a reasonable expectation for FreeBSD. I'm new to Free

2 Gateways.

2006-08-02 Thread Лукьяненко Александр
Hi, all! Problem: PC with FreeBSD, there are 2 gateway GW1 and GW2, GW1 is default. Need: Queries that come from GW2 goes through GW2, not through default. How can I do it? -- mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list ht

Telecom

2006-08-02 Thread root
Dear All, Can we use FreeBSD in Telecom industry? If I want to build an Internet Backbone which connect across country in asia. Is it suitable? How is its stability of routing compare to Cisco? Rgds, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Need Advice for Tuning NFS to place nice with a Netapp

2006-08-02 Thread Freminlins
Nicole, On 02/08/06, N. Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I have several web servers that are attached to a Netapp (network appliance) unit via NFS-3. A few servers are 5.5 and a few are 6.1 for comparison testing. All seem to have lousy performance. We have a similar setup and it run

Re: Problems with MySQL since upgrade

2006-08-02 Thread Richard Morse
On Aug 1, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Richard Morse wrote: Hi! I recently updated MySQL to version 5.0.22 using the ports system (portupgrade -r -R mysql-\*). Previous to this, MySQL was behaving perfectly normally. Since the upgrade, I have found that every so often -- sometimes two or three tim

Re: watchdog question.

2006-08-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > On Tuesday 01 August 2006 20:39, Efren Bravo wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've a freeBSD box and I've been seeing this > >> message for several months: sis0 watchdog > >> timeout. > >> > >> The box has two ethernet cards, sis0 (100mb) and > >> vr0 (10mb). > >> >

Re: watchdog question.

2006-08-02 Thread efrenba
> On Tuesday 01 August 2006 20:39, Efren Bravo wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've a freeBSD box and I've been seeing this >> message for several months: sis0 watchdog >> timeout. >> >> The box has two ethernet cards, sis0 (100mb) and >> vr0 (10mb). >> >> The messages isn't frequent but yesterday it got >> my

Re: Changing user password from command line

2006-08-02 Thread Simon Phoenix
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 12:48, Mike Fern wrote: > Dear all, > Does anybody know a program which is able to change user password from > command line? > We can add a user using single line pw (pw useradd), but i need > ability to set the password also, instead of old command "passwd user" > and t

Re: Gotta start somewhere ... how many of us are really out there?

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Atom Powers wrote: It's still going to take you at least a release to get it into the base install. But if you can find a way to use the portsnap data and get useful information out of the cvsup data you can probably get numbers now with an error margin as low as 8% to 15%. Hey, I said that a

Re: spamfilter

2006-08-02 Thread hackmiester (Hunter Fuller)
On 1 August 2006, at 22:55, User Freebsd wrote: If you want a truly user-friendly spam/virus solution, check out: http://www.renaissoft.com/maia/ I have this backing >200 VPS, including postgresql.org itself, and its literally a dream Misuse of literally - but I can second that recom

Re: watchdog question.

2006-08-02 Thread Alex Zbyslaw
Bill Moran wrote: RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 01 August 2006 20:39, Efren Bravo wrote: Hi, I've a freeBSD box and I've been seeing this message for several months: sis0 watchdog timeout. The box has two ethernet cards, sis0 (100mb) and vr0 (10mb). The messages isn't fr

Weird result of portupgrade -aRr concerning pkgconfig or is it pkg-config?

2006-08-02 Thread Bobby Knight
HelloNewly installed 6.1. Barely touched ports so one would expect it to work, yet it fails brutally for me as a new user when I do portupgrade -arR just to upgrade a few packages.I have no clue why and what to do so I am hoping someone here knows. Can't see what I have done wrong. I

Re: Using dnscache locally with FBSD 6.x

2006-08-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to "Mark Powell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, 1 Aug 2006, Bill Moran wrote: > > >>However, I use svscan to start up dnscache, and that starts very late in > >> the boot. That means I can't just have the single "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > >> line in resolv.conf, as every lookup woul

Re: a good web statistics port?

2006-08-02 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > i would really prefer awstats, but its been > in "command injection" limbo forever. awstats isn't nearly as dangerous as the advisories make it out. The last few security problems only apply to systems where awstats is configured to allow you

Re: Firefox 1.5.0.5 port build error

2006-08-02 Thread Matthew Seaman
On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:11:27PM +0530, Chandan Haldar wrote: > Having another crack at building firefox 1.5 on FreeBSD 6.0 Release... > Anyone knows what this cryptic error could be due to? Thanks in advance. > > Chandan > > > ===> Extracting for firefox-1.5.0.5,1 > => Checksum OK for firef

Re: portsdb output and portaudit question

2006-08-02 Thread Gerard
"jan gestre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > the box's running for almost 2 months now setup as webmail server, the > > only thing i removed was the linux compatible applications since i have no > > plans of installing linux. i ran pkgdb -F and pkgdb -fu to no avail, after > > doing cvsup this morning, ra

Re: Unable to Print

2006-08-02 Thread Gerard Seibert
Garance A Drosehn wrote: > On August 1/2006, I (Garance) wrote: > > > >Check to see if you have multiple versions of 'lpr' > >running. *If* you do, then the results that you see > >will probably depend on which version you run. > > What I meant to say was: Check to see if you have > multiple ve

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