Adding a new hard drive, and using geom

2008-07-06 Thread Joshua Isom
I bought a second hard drive for my computer since my /usr partition was getting full. I don't want to deal with hardware raid since I don't want to be dependent on a certain hardware vendor or chipset, so I'm wanting to go with geom. I'd prefer to not have to backup all my data(I know I

RE: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-07-06 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gary Kline Sent: Friday, July 04, 2008 2:42 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia? On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at

Re: Adding a new hard drive, and using geom

2008-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I bought a second hard drive for my computer since my /usr partition was getting full. I don't want to deal with hardware raid since I don't want to be dependent on a certain hardware vendor or chipset, you probably don't have RAID hardware to deal, unless you bough 300 or more $ card. so

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-07-06 Thread John Nielsen
I'm behind on my mailing list reading and don't really want to prolong/resurrect this thread unduly, but I do want to respond to this point: On Thursday 12 June 2008 07:37:06 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: you must have disks dedicated for raidz, disks dedicated for mirrored storage and disks

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ZFS on FreeBSD is GEOM-ified. While I believe what Wojciech said about needing a full disk is correct under Solaris, it's not the case in i never said it requires full disk. but it will work very slow sharing a disk with non-ZFS things. to say more: zfs set copies could be usable to

Re: Sound on amd64

2008-07-06 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:02:09 -0700 Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to update the kernel in 7.0-Stable (updated today) with either snd_hda or snd_ich, and it's erroring out during buildkernel with one or

Re: Sound on amd64

2008-07-06 Thread Tore Lund
Kurt Buff wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:02:09 -0700 Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Do you have both the generic sound support (sound) as well as the specific hardware driver enabled in your kernel config?

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
John Almberg wrote: Luckily, I have a pretty powerful machine sitting right next to my main webserver that I mainly use for backup. The two servers are directly connected to each other with a twisted ethernet cable, using extra NIC cards in the machines, so they have a fast, dedicated 'LAN'

Disabling Super key?

2008-07-06 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Is there any way I could disable the Windows key on my keyboard? I use FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE on a Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. My Windows key (Super_L) has developed a problem for some unknown reason: it gets pressed and remains so without my touching it. I could diagnose this only using xev, which

linux_base and SMP support ?

2008-07-06 Thread P.Moulin
Hi there. I recently added linux_base-fc4 on a host, to run linux setiathome enhanced versions (aka crunchers). The problem is that on multicore engines (core 2 duo, pentium D, etc...) where before there was 2 freebsd-crunchers on 2 differents core, now, with linux-crunchers, the 2 crunchers

Re: Konqueror UNICODE fonts

2008-07-06 Thread Ezequiel Aguerre
Hi, 1. Make sure you have the proper fonts :P 2. Choose a generic font name in konqueror config, something like Sans and Monospace instead of (for example) Bitstream Vera Sans and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. 3. Make sure you have configured fontconfig so that it makes the proper replace from Sans -

minimum xorg install for clients side

2008-07-06 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I've a headless machine on which I'd like to run xorg clients, but no server. What ports do I need to install? xorg-apps? many thanks anton -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol University University Walk, Bristol BS8 1TR, UK Tel: +44 (0)117 928 8233 Fax: +44

Re: linux_base and SMP support ?

2008-07-06 Thread Kris Kennaway
P.Moulin wrote: Hi there. I recently added linux_base-fc4 on a host, to run linux setiathome enhanced versions (aka crunchers). The problem is that on multicore engines (core 2 duo, pentium D, etc...) where before there was 2 freebsd-crunchers on 2 differents core, now, with linux-crunchers,

Re: Konqueror UNICODE fonts

2008-07-06 Thread Ghirai
On Sunday 06 July 2008 13:08:55 Ezequiel Aguerre wrote: Hi, 1. Make sure you have the proper fonts :P 2. Choose a generic font name in konqueror config, something like Sans and Monospace instead of (for example) Bitstream Vera Sans and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. 3. Make sure you have

Re: minimum xorg install for clients side

2008-07-06 Thread Fraser Tweedale
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 11:38:42AM +0100, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I've a headless machine on which I'd like to run xorg clients, but no server. What ports do I need to install? xorg-apps? many thanks anton xorg-libraries is the place to start. xorg-apps is a collection of small X

Re: minimum xorg install for clients side

2008-07-06 Thread Anders Trobäck
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:38:42 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a headless machine on which I'd like to run xorg clients, but no server. What ports do I need to install? xorg-apps? many thanks anton Not 100% sure what you are asking, but if you want to run, let's

Development (Linux) and production (freeBSD) servers?

2008-07-06 Thread Gintautas Simkus
Hello, I have a freeBSD AMP web server running on an old desktop, while on my laptop I am running Ubuntu and Windows OSes. My main concern is this: is it possible backup my production server data with rsync for instance and keep it on Ubuntu server? Are there any other consideration to take into

Re: Development (Linux) and production (freeBSD) servers?

2008-07-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 04:17:06PM +0300, Gintautas Simkus wrote: Hello, I have a freeBSD AMP web server running on an old desktop, while on my laptop I am running Ubuntu and Windows OSes. My main concern is this: is it possible backup my production server data with rsync for instance and keep

Reconfiguring network interfaces

2008-07-06 Thread David Allen
I need to make several wholesale changes to a few different systems, and I'd prefer to do it over SSH without losing connectivity where possible. I know I can use ifconfig, or edit /etc/rc.conf directly and reboot, but is there a canonical way to make the changes in /etc/rc.conf and reload those

Portupgrade

2008-07-06 Thread dfeustel
I ran the command 'portupgrade -all' yesterday and now I have some questions about the way the command works. Building of numerous packages was preceeded by a graphical menu of build options for the package to be built. In the case of clisp, I changed the default to include building the pari math

Re: Portupgrade

2008-07-06 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:07:45PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I ran the command 'portupgrade -all' yesterday and now I have some questions about the way the command works. Building of numerous packages was preceeded by a graphical menu of build options for the package to be built. In

Re: Reconfiguring network interfaces

2008-07-06 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:06 AM 7/6/2008, David Allen wrote: I need to make several wholesale changes to a few different systems, and I'd prefer to do it over SSH without losing connectivity where possible. I know I can use ifconfig, or edit /etc/rc.conf directly and reboot, but is there a canonical way to make

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jul 6, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: John Almberg wrote: [snip] In the second case, it's really just about competition for resources. I suspect that you could have achieved a pretty good speed-up simply by adding another hard drive to your server and moving all of the

Re: Reconfiguring network interfaces

2008-07-06 Thread Andrew D
David Allen wrote: I need to make several wholesale changes to a few different systems, and I'd prefer to do it over SSH without losing connectivity where possible. I know I can use ifconfig, or edit /etc/rc.conf directly and reboot, but is there a canonical way to make the changes in

Re: Reconfiguring network interfaces

2008-07-06 Thread Mel
On Sunday 06 July 2008 16:06:49 David Allen wrote: I need to make several wholesale changes to a few different systems, and I'd prefer to do it over SSH without losing connectivity where possible. I know I can use ifconfig, or edit /etc/rc.conf directly and reboot, but is there a canonical

Re: minimum xorg install for clients side

2008-07-06 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:16:36PM +0200, Anders Trob??ck wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:38:42 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a headless machine on which I'd like to run xorg clients, but no server. What ports do I need to install? xorg-apps? many thanks

natd and ipfw external hangs

2008-07-06 Thread Alex Teslik
Hello, I recently upgraded to 7.0-STABLE and have setup an ipfw+natd combo on my dual homed host. I have two interfaces: em0 - external interface to the net 24.205.x.x sk0 - internal interface 192.168.x.x When users connect on the 192.168.x.x internal network everything works great. Packets

Re: Reconfiguring network interfaces

2008-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
would work, but would require I do that locally. You could also use the alias featue, adding the new ip, sshing into the new ip, and dump the old ip. ** Though I haven't tried this method personally. ** but i did. ___

Fwd: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread John Almberg
On Jul 6, 2008, at 4:58 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: John Almberg wrote: Luckily, I have a pretty powerful machine sitting right next to my main webserver that I mainly use for backup. The two servers are directly connected to each other with a twisted ethernet cable, using extra NIC cards

Re: FreeBSD + ZFS on a production server?

2008-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
point: On Thursday 12 June 2008 07:37:06 am Wojciech Puchar wrote: you must have disks dedicated for raidz, disks dedicated for mirrored storage and disks dedicated for unprotected storage. it's inflexible and not much usable. actually - much less usable than legacy

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread Mel
On Sunday 06 July 2008 10:58:54 Matthew Seaman wrote: I suspect that you could have achieved a pretty good speed-up simply by adding another hard drive to your server and moving all of the database onto it, separate from the web root and any other areas which apache would be doing a lot of

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread John Almberg
When I go back and look at the original top output for the single machine I note that it's out of RAM. It looks to me like apache and mysqld were contending over memory. Can you explain this idea in more detail, Chris? I thought this TOP display indicated that there was still 2G free.

unable to fetch wmthemeinstall

2008-07-06 Thread luizbcampos
Despite I have enabled port 21 on /etc/pf.conf, I dont get fetching wmthemeinstall I get -operation not permitted, I use Free-BSD-7.0-R amd64 Regards Luiz ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

[OT] Why behaves my application different when run in gdb

2008-07-06 Thread Tobias Rehbein
Hi all. Sorry for asking off-topic questions but I started to dive into C programming. I know a couple of scripting languages quite well but wanted to learn something more low level. What me struck now is the fact that my code will crash (signal 11) while processing a strcpy. When I run the same

Recovering root password from a drive by mounting the cdrom

2008-07-06 Thread Mukarram Syed
Hi, I am totally new to freebsd and as a Unix admin (not a freebsd unix admin though), I have to recover a lost root password from a freebsd drive. I need your help! I have booted up from a freebsd install cd 1. I have connected my freebsd drive in the system. Now I don't know how to mount the

Re: Recovering root password from a drive by mounting the cdrom

2008-07-06 Thread David Alanis
Quoting Mukarram Syed [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I am totally new to freebsd and as a Unix admin (not a freebsd unix admin though), I have to recover a lost root password from a freebsd drive. I need your help! I have booted up from a freebsd install cd 1. I have connected my freebsd

Re: minimum xorg install for clients side

2008-07-06 Thread Anders Trobäck
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 16:24:08 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:16:36PM +0200, Anders Trob??ck wrote: On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 11:38:42 +0100 Anton Shterenlikht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've a headless machine on which I'd like to run xorg clients,

Re: [OT] Why behaves my application different when run in gdb

2008-07-06 Thread cpghost
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008 18:36:26 +0200 Tobias Rehbein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What me struck now is the fact that my code will crash (signal 11) while processing a strcpy. When I run the same thing in gdb it won't crash and whats even more important to me: It does what I wanted it to do... If

Can't run GNUstep apps. X-Windows error - RenderBadPicture

2008-07-06 Thread Pedro Alves
Hello I am trying to run GNUStep applications on my machine. After installing all the applications and libraries and configuring the environment I get the following error when for instance I start any GNUstep app ie. TextEdit, Gorm ... 2008-07-06 20:35:18.082 TextEdit[911] X-Windows error -

Can't run WindowMaker. Fatal server error:

2008-07-06 Thread Pedro Alves
Hello I have a serious problem with windowmaker. Every time I configure .xinitrc to launch wmaker, the server aborts here what I get: Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting xnit: connection to X server lost. wmaker warning: got signal1-exiting... So... What to do, as I don't

Re: Can't run WindowMaker. Fatal server error:

2008-07-06 Thread Luke Dean
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Pedro Alves wrote: Hello I have a serious problem with windowmaker. Every time I configure .xinitrc to launch wmaker, the server aborts here what I get: Fatal server error: Caught signal 11. Server aborting xnit: connection to X server lost. wmaker warning: got

Re: Deny access from localhost to internet.....

2008-07-06 Thread Agus
2007/9/29 RW [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 02:22:42 +0200 Sten Daniel Soersdal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agus wrote: Hi guys, How are you today? The question is this..I want to restrict external access, that is from my BSD to the internet, to some groups of users.

Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 -- radio stubbornly remains down at Toshiba Satellite M30-951

2008-07-06 Thread Ariel Burbaickij
Hello dear mailing list participants, following situation: iwi device is configured as required in man iwi (4) in /boot/loader.conf and it is recognized during bootup. FreeBSD 7.0-Release is used. Under FreeBSD radio remains turned off. As I understood it from attempt to install iwicontrol it is

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread John Almberg
Since MySQL is clearly the bottleneck of the sites, I'd investigate why in the world apache2 needs 150M per process. Now that was a darn good question. I ran httpd -M and got a list of 60 loaded modules... duh. I said before I'm just a beginner Admin. I'm learning a lot, but some of these

Re: Sed in FreeBSD

2008-07-06 Thread Glen Barber
On 7/5/08, James Bailie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian Tymków wrote: I've tried with sed -e '/PATTERN/ a\ line' file but this did'n work. There are many axamples in internet but none of them work on FreeBSD. The inserted line needs to be on a separate physical line. sed -e

Re: Recovering root password from a drive by mounting the cdrom

2008-07-06 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I need your help! I have booted up from a freebsd install cd 1. I have connected my freebsd drive in the system. Now I don't know how to mount the drive to edit the /etc/shadow file. I am at the fixit prompt on the cd. IMHO mount yourrootpartition /mnt mount your_usr_partition_if_separate

Re: Sound on amd64

2008-07-06 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:25:58 +0200 Tore Lund [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kurt Buff wrote: On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 5 Jul 2008 19:02:09 -0700 Kurt Buff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... Do you have both the generic sound support

Re: Konqueror UNICODE fonts

2008-07-06 Thread Mitja
On Sunday 06 July 2008 06:23:34 Ghirai wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2008 13:08:55 Ezequiel Aguerre wrote: Hi, 1. Make sure you have the proper fonts :P 2. Choose a generic font name in konqueror config, something like Sans and Monospace instead of (for example) Bitstream Vera Sans and

Re: Konqueror UNICODE fonts

2008-07-06 Thread Ghirai
On Monday 07 July 2008 00:48:14 Mitja wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2008 06:23:34 Ghirai wrote: On Sunday 06 July 2008 13:08:55 Ezequiel Aguerre wrote: Hi, 1. Make sure you have the proper fonts :P 2. Choose a generic font name in konqueror config, something like Sans and Monospace

Re: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-07-06 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 12:00:50PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: This is not a silly idea. For many many years people would spend hundreds of dollars on a complete set of Encyclopedia Britannica or World Book encyclopedia to have it sit on their shelf gathering they bought it to HAVE it,

Re: Konqueror UNICODE fonts

2008-07-06 Thread Mitja
On Sunday 06 July 2008 17:02:07 Ghirai wrote: I have to used DejaVu fonts and than changed to Liberation fonts and I had and I have a problem as you had still. Thank you. The article itself has no squares. However, the Languages box on the right of the page shows squares for about 10

Re: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-07-06 Thread perryh
In my house, we had an encyclopedia because I was in school ... it was useful for research papers. I suspect the usefulness would depend on what one's teachers meant by research, which tends to change with grade level. In elementary and middle school, certainly. In high school, maybe. In

Trouble with Intel WIFI ipw2200

2008-07-06 Thread Diego F. Arias R.
Hi: i have installed freebsd on my laptop but i have a weird problem. I can assosiate with my AP(AccessPoint) using my WEp key but dont works. If i try to use DHCP or set a IP address dont works but if i put tcpdump i can see a few packets. If i try with a keyless network it works. yatusabes#

Re: Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 -- radio stubbornly remains down at Toshiba Satellite M30-951

2008-07-06 Thread David Gurvich
Have you accepted the license agreement? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why would it make such a difference to move mysqld to another machine?

2008-07-06 Thread Christopher Sean Hilton
On Jul 6, 2008, at 5:10 PM, John Almberg wrote: Since MySQL is clearly the bottleneck of the sites, I'd investigate why in the world apache2 needs 150M per process. Now that was a darn good question. I ran httpd -M and got a list of 60 loaded modules... duh. I said before I'm just a

Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia?

2008-07-06 Thread DAve
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Chad Perrin Sent: Monday, June 30, 2008 10:05 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Re: OT: anyone been crazy enough to mirror wikipedia? On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 05:15:39PM -0400,

Re: Intel Pro/Wireless 2200 -- radio stubbornly remains down at Toshiba Satellite M30-951

2008-07-06 Thread Ariel Burbaickij
Yes, of course, I have accepted license agreement. Never mind, though. Problem is solved. I found tiny hardware switch that indeed switches radio off/on on the laptop. It was in off position. Now it is in on and everything is fine. /wbr Ariel Burbaickij