Re: Problem in checking machine architecture

2008-07-19 Thread Tim Judd
Eitan Shefi wrote: I have a host with FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE (64 bit) installed. How do I check the host's architecture ? When I run: uname -m the output is: amd64 When I run: sysctl -a | less and search for: CPU I see that: hw.model: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU5140 @ 2.33GHz ...

Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2

2008-07-19 Thread Tim Judd
Manolis Kiagias wrote: Mark Boolootian wrote: Hi folks, I've done a couple of fresh installs on 7.0-RELEASE today, and subsequently run freebsd-update. freebsd-update reports: The following files will be updated as part of updating to 7.0-RELEASE-p3: /boot/kernel/kernel

Re: dump and restore

2008-07-19 Thread Peter Boosten
Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:51 am, Peter Boosten wrote: The /usr/ partition was 74Gb, and it took (according to dump 52631 seconds (~ 14.5 hours) to copy. Both disks are IDE, in the same machine on different IDE controllers. The time for dump/restore normally depends more on the

Re: Video Card Info

2008-07-19 Thread RW
On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Liddell writes: im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within FreeBSD with this particular video card ? I use an

Extracting tracks as WAV from a worn-out CD

2008-07-19 Thread Razmig K
Hello, I could successfully extract the last track, no. 7, on a pretty worn-out audio CD issuing the command: % cdda2wav -D 0,0,0 -t 7 (0,0,0 being the SCSI device corresponding to the cdda2wav -scanbus output) while I have failed doing so earlier via: % cdda2wav -D /dev/acd0 -t 7 since it

Kernel mode PPPoE or User mode PPPoE

2008-07-19 Thread आशीष शुक्ल Ashish Shukla
Hi I wanted to know if I'm using user-mode PPPoE or kernel-mode PPPoE. I'm following the handbook[1] to setup my PPPoE interface. Is there any way I can figure out this ? And what is the difference between kernel-mode PPP and user-mode PPP ? I'm running FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p3 (amd64).

Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2

2008-07-19 Thread David Newman
Mark Boolootian wrote: which leads me to conclude I've got -p3, including the BIND update. However 'uname -a' says something else: FreeBSD mumble.ucsc.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 18 07:33:20 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 And

Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2

2008-07-19 Thread Manolis Kiagias
David Newman wrote: Mark Boolootian wrote: which leads me to conclude I've got -p3, including the BIND update. However 'uname -a' says something else: FreeBSD mumble.ucsc.edu 7.0-RELEASE-p2 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p2 #0: Wed Jun 18 07:33:20 UTC 2008 [EMAIL

Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2

2008-07-19 Thread v
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Re: Video Card Info

2008-07-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RW wrote: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Liddell writes: im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within

Re: Video Card Info

2008-07-19 Thread George Hartzell
RW writes: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Liddell writes: im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone has heard or know of any issues within FreeBSD with this particular

Re: Video Card Info

2008-07-19 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Hartzell wrote: RW writes: On Fri, 18 Jul 2008 18:15:48 -0700 George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Warren Liddell writes: im looking to purchase the NVIDIA 8800GTX PCI Express Video Card an was wondering if anyone

Re: Why this linking fail?

2008-07-19 Thread Mel
On Thursday 17 July 2008 07:37:43 Unga wrote: --- On Thu, 7/17/08, Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry guys, I have found an issue. In the libc compile log shows following error: lex -P_nsyy -o/dev/stdout /usr/src/lib/libc/net/nslexer.l | sed -e '/YY_BUF_SIZE/s/16384/1024/' |

Re: http cache cleaner

2008-07-19 Thread Mel
On Thursday 17 July 2008 11:28:02 Jos Chrispijn wrote: Warren Liddell wrote: I have had every so often during the day a window saying http cache cleaner loading application appear but not listed in the actual processes or available to terminate, what is it an how do i stop it form loading ?

Re: log size handling

2008-07-19 Thread Mel
On Thursday 17 July 2008 13:31:39 Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Yes, I am compressing them. Load is not an issue yet but I want to optimize things that can be optimized. So I guess, rotate more often? I like the idea of having one monthly log because it is then processed by web stat software so it

Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2

2008-07-19 Thread Matthew Seaman
Manolis Kiagias wrote: This is not a problem with freebsd-update. The kernel has not changed between -p2 and -p3, so freebsd-update will not get you an updated one. If you recompile the kernel afterwards, it will show -p3 because of the change in /usr/src/sys/conf/newvers.sh (this changes

Re: Extracting tracks as WAV from a worn-out CD

2008-07-19 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Razmig K wrote: Snipped for logic: Hello, I could successfully extract the last track, no. 7, on a pretty worn-out audio CD got stuck at %84 giving the error cooked: Read cdda : Input/output error. Any explanations to this? Not trying to be overly arrogant, but aren't you asking

Re: dump and restore

2008-07-19 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Peter Boosten [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Malcolm Kay wrote: On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 06:51 am, Peter Boosten wrote: The /usr/ partition was 74Gb, and it took (according to dump 52631 seconds (~ 14.5 hours) to copy. Both disks are IDE, in the same machine on different IDE controllers. The time

Re: Extracting tracks as WAV from a worn-out CD

2008-07-19 Thread Razmig K
Kevin Kinsey a écrit : Not trying to be overly arrogant, but aren't you asking something similar to why doesn't my broken car run? No, I'm aware of the implications of having a broken car. The question asked for explanations, if any, on why successful extraction was possible via the SCSI

Re: Extracting tracks as WAV from a worn-out CD

2008-07-19 Thread Josh Carroll
Sorry this is truncated, the google mail application on blackberry doesn't include the full mail. Anyway, I would highly suggest using cdparanoia from ports. I have had great success recovering very scratched discs with it in the past. Good luck! Josh On 7/19/08, Razmig K [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freebsd-update says -p3, but i've got -p2

2008-07-19 Thread David Newman
On 7/19/08 9:50 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Manolis Kiagias wrote: This is not a problem with freebsd-update. The kernel has not changed between -p2 and -p3, so freebsd-update will not get you an updated one. If you recompile the kernel afterwards, it will show -p3 because of the change in

What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?

2008-07-19 Thread wrag
What price at the license of FreeBSD 7? it's important for me. I must know. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?

2008-07-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7? it's important for me. I must know. It is available for the low low price of $0 or the equivalent in your local currency. Yes really :) Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

How to prevent certain gnome apps from being installed ...

2008-07-19 Thread kiffin.gish
Every time gnome desktop is upgraded via portupgrade it reinstalls a bunch of applications that I had previously removed using pkg_delete. For example, since I only use firefox as my browser there's no need to also have epiphany nor galeon. However, by default they are always reinstalled.

Re: panic

2008-07-19 Thread Michael Grant
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Grant wrote: I have been having panics on one of my machines, roughly every week or so. I was running 6.3 pre-release and then I updated to 6.3 p2 and I still have the panic, here's the message that appears on

Re: panic

2008-07-19 Thread Kris Kennaway
Michael Grant wrote: On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 10:44 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Grant wrote: I have been having panics on one of my machines, roughly every week or so. I was running 6.3 pre-release and then I updated to 6.3 p2 and I still have the panic, here's the

Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?

2008-07-19 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Saturday 19 July 2008 15:40:53 Kris Kennaway wrote: ... or the equivalent in your local currency. Yes really :) Kris ROFL to death ! Sorry .. couldn't help it ... You made me spit my pepsi all over my desktop ! Thanks!! -- Blessings Gonzalo Nemmi

Re: How to prevent certain gnome apps from being installed ...

2008-07-19 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:26:42 +0200 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Every time gnome desktop is upgraded via portupgrade it reinstalls a bunch of applications that I had previously removed using pkg_delete. For example, since I only use firefox as my browser there's no need to also have epiphany

Re: Kernel mode PPPoE or User mode PPPoE

2008-07-19 Thread RW
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:14:40 +0530 ___ Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I wanted to know if I'm using user-mode PPPoE or kernel-mode PPPoE. I'm following the handbook[1] to setup my PPPoE interface. Is there any way I can figure out this ? If you are

Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?

2008-07-19 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008, Kris Kennaway wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7? it's important for me. I must know. It is available for the low low price of $0 or the equivalent in your local currency. Yes really :) Let's see, ... that would be approximately

Re: What price at the license of FreeBSD 7?

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Jeays
On July 19, 2008 04:21:03 pm Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Saturday 19 July 2008 15:40:53 Kris Kennaway wrote: ... or the equivalent in your local currency. Yes really :) Kris ROFL to death ! Sorry .. couldn't help it ... You made me spit my pepsi all over my desktop ! Thanks!! How many

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-06-29 - 2008-07-19

2008-07-19 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

How to divide up?

2008-07-19 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, Is there an easyy way of splitting yp these tags into one-per-line? I'm not obcessive [[?, :)]], but for what I've got in mind, the tags and stuff would look better to my eyes? the outcome of this will go ino a special database, not html . is there some clever perl one-liner that

Re: How to divide up?

2008-07-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 17:23:48 -0700, Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Guys, Is there an easyy way of splitting yp these tags into one-per-line? I'm not obcessive [[?, :)]], but for what I've got in mind, the tags and stuff would look better to my eyes? the outcome of this will go ino

Re: How to divide up?

2008-07-19 Thread Roland Smith
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 05:23:48PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Is there an easyy way of splitting yp these tags into one-per-line? I'm not obcessive [[?, :)]], but for what I've got in mind, the tags and stuff would look better to my eyes? the outcome of this will go ino a special

Re: how to simulate a user's crontab?

2008-07-19 Thread Karl Vogel
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 09:27:51 +0200, DA Forsyth [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: D John, it is not a permissions issue, but rather a path issue. Do as the D other poster suggested and run a cron job to dump the environment and you D will see that the PATH inside a cron job is very rudimentary. Either

Reading from USB devices

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, I'd like to read data from a USB device that is not a thumb drive. How would I do this? For instance, it's an oximeter for reading biometrics. What libraries exist for reading things like VID/PID, and most importantly, reading the data from the device? Thanks, Andy

Re: How to divide up?

2008-07-19 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 03:44:07 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now, if you want to merely hack something quick and dirty, a short Perl script can probably do regexp substitution similar to # # WARNING: THIS HAS NOT BEEN TESTED :P # my $foo =

Need help to compile netlogin client

2008-07-19 Thread Kevin JR
It must login first with a client before surf into Internet for me. The client can be compiled well under linux, however, it failed under freebsd due to the following code dealing with acquire ip/mac information: [CODE] static void getAddr(int sockfd, struct usrinfoSet *pui) {     struct ifreq

rtorrent refuses to open bittorrent file

2008-07-19 Thread luizbcampos
As I am a new user to rtorrent I would like to know how to set it up properly. After I had configured .rc.rtorrent when I type --anyfile.torrent -- I got the answer that rtorrent is unable to open such a file... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

re: debug messages for system crash output- Kennawayothers

2008-07-19 Thread Desmond Chapman
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Re: Kernel mode PPPoE or User mode PPPoE

2008-07-19 Thread Ashish Shukla आशीष शुक्ल
RW writes: On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 19:14:40 +0530 ___ Ashish Shukla [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I wanted to know if I'm using user-mode PPPoE or kernel-mode PPPoE. I'm following the handbook[1] to setup my PPPoE interface. Is there any way I can figure out this ?

Re: How to divide up?

2008-07-19 Thread Walt Pawley
At 5:23 PM -0700 7/19/08, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, Is there an easyy way of splitting yp these tags into one-per-line? I'm not obcessive [[?, :)]], but for what I've got in mind, the tags and stuff would look better to my eyes? the outcome of this will go ino a special database, not html .