Re: High Availability FreeBSD www cluster

2008-08-07 Thread Michael Christie
Thank you all for your input. Carp looks like it needs some investigation Thanks Michael Peter Ross wrote: Hi, Michael Christie wrote: I want to cluster some freeBSD servers, The purpose of this is to learn. I would like to run some basic services like www and mail on a test network. I

Re: Wireless net Card

2008-08-07 Thread Warren Liddell
On Thursday 07 August 2008 14:21:41 David Gurvich wrote: FreeBSD and Linux are different operating systems. There is no compatibility between them. FreeBSD has an emulation layer which works for a limited subset of Linux binary programs. These are not kernel drivers. Your best bet on

Cluster Filesystem

2008-08-07 Thread Konrad Heuer
Hello, I'd like to know whether there are any works on a cluster filesystem for FreeBSD. Here in our environment, we use StorNext for Linux and OS X, and Quantum people told me that they once also had a kernel module for FreeBSD. But because there was a lack of demands they stopped

Add CONFIGURE_ARGS option for port in make.conf

2008-08-07 Thread Matthias Kellermann
Hi list, I want to compile a port with an option that is not controllable through the FreeBSD Makefile or with make config. The specific port is lang/php4 and the option I want to add is --with-mime-magic (I know, php4 is old and not supported after 8.8.08 and --with-mime-magic is

What is the best kind of computer, overall? [was: Re: general questions about 7.0 and computer efficiency......]

2008-08-07 Thread Gary Kline
On Wed, Aug 06, 2008 at 07:10:59AM +0200, Roland Smith wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 05:07:08PM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: This brings me to my next question which is:: It it better to buy a proprietary make like Dell or HP or stick to something more generic? Let's assume

dnat for specific source IP

2008-08-07 Thread rvenne
Hello world, How could I setup some dnat rules with ipf/ipnat couple? for exemple: All UDP paquects on port 1025, from $FRIENDIP should be dnat to $MYIP rdr do not seams accept any source ip rules, but only destinate ip. thanks -- Richard VENNE IT Administrator Administrateur réseaux

Ports upgrade within Jail

2008-08-07 Thread Druckbar
Hello List, i have a jail hosted on a 6-2 RELEASE machine i don't have access to. As i don't have access, i can't upgrade the base system. But i would like to keep the ports i use up to date. Will i encounter problems if i just upgrade my ports using portsnap and portmaster? or will those

problems with a C script, exiting with signal 10

2008-08-07 Thread Jordi Moles Blanco
Hi, I've got this home-made script, written in C, on a Freebsd 7.0 server with different versions of postfix: 2.3,2,4 and 2.5 The problem is that, while most of the time it works like a charm, sometimes it crashes and bounces the message. It's not really a big deal, cause the sender gets

Re: Cluster Filesystem

2008-08-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:44:55 +0200 (CEST) Konrad Heuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really like UFS, and maybe ZFS is wonderful, too; but a cluster filesystem has many charms in a large production environment: load distribution, redundancy in case of failures, ... man ggated - there have been

RE: Cluster Filesystem

2008-08-07 Thread Rudi Kramer - MWEB
Norberto Meijome On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:44:55 +0200 (CEST) Konrad Heuer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really like UFS, and maybe ZFS is wonderful, too; but a cluster filesystem has many charms in a large production environment: load distribution, redundancy in case of failures, ...

Ports upgrade within Jail

2008-08-07 Thread Edwin Groothuis
Will i encounter problems if i just upgrade my ports using portsnap and portmaster? or will those tools be aware of the version my base system is and only use ports that are made for this version? The components of your jail are totally seperate from the host. You can use portsnap, or cvsup,

RE: Cluster Filesystem

2008-08-07 Thread Wojciech Puchar
DragonFly BSD is busy working on. It's not 100% finished but hopefully soon and it should be ported to FreeBSD. It looks to be pretty good ^^ i wish it will, at first glance it looks like ZFS done right. ___

Re: Ports upgrade within Jail

2008-08-07 Thread Ivailo Tanusheff
The only common between the jail and the hosted system are the kernel and its drivers. You may use entirely different ports in the base system and into the jailed enviroment. So you may keep your jailed ports up to date without any concern as long as they do not conflict with the base system

IPsec with NAT-T in transport mode dropping all packets?

2008-08-07 Thread David Murray
Greetings All, I'm having a bit of trouble getting IPsec working in transport mode with NAT-T. I wonder if any experts out there might be able to point me in the right direction. Briefly, the background is that I'm trying to configure a FreeBSD box to provide to remote Windows clients with

Re: Upgrading from 6.x to 7.x

2008-08-07 Thread Warren Liddell
The easiest way to do the upgrade (if you are using a GENERIC kernel) is to use Freebsd-update (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/) It's a pretty powerful tool which allows you to do binary updates for FreeBSD. To upgrade between major versions you would want to check out this page:

Re: Atheros (ath) MSI wireless embedded chipset fails to attach on 7.0-STABLE

2008-08-07 Thread Alexander Sack
Edwin L. Culp wrote: Alexander Sack [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Final update, I got everything working! I came home and connected by new notebook using the latest PCIe Atheros chipset to a WPA2 network using wpa_supplicant! Yippie! Hope this thread helps someone else, -aps On

Re: Add CONFIGURE_ARGS option for port in make.conf

2008-08-07 Thread RW
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:04:23 +0200 Matthias Kellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I want to compile a port with an option that is not controllable through the FreeBSD Makefile or with make config. ... So I added an option to make.conf(5): .if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/php4}

Re: Add CONFIGURE_ARGS option for port in make.conf

2008-08-07 Thread Matthias Kellermann
RW wrote: On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 10:04:23 +0200 Matthias Kellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi list, I want to compile a port with an option that is not controllable through the FreeBSD Makefile or with make config. ... So I added an option to make.conf(5): .if ${.CURDIR:M*/lang/php4}

64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)

2008-08-07 Thread Maxim Khitrov
Hello all, Simple question - am I able to run 64-bit linux binaries using the ABI emulation under FreeBSD 7.0 amd64? In the NOTES for amd64 kernel configuration the COMPAT_LINUX option is commented out, but I don't understand the explanation at the top of the section: #XXX keep these here for

Disk errors on installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-08-07 Thread Snorre D. Øverbø
Hi all, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 release on a box at home. When I boot up with the installation DVD these error messages appear on the screen. [Written down by hand:] ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=0055347 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA

Re: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)

2008-08-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello all, Simple question - am I able to run 64-bit linux binaries using the ABI emulation under FreeBSD 7.0 amd64? In the NOTES for amd64 kernel configuration the COMPAT_LINUX option is commented out, but I don't understand the explanation at the top of the section: Not

Re: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)

2008-08-07 Thread David Gurvich
If you are looking for batch processing, octave may be an option. The objective was to be as compatible with Matlab as possible. There wasn't any gui available when I last looked at this program. As a side note, I found the following from the Matlab site hilarious : FreeBSD distributions of

Re: Disk errors on installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-08-07 Thread larin
Snorre D. Øverbø wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 release on a box at home. When I boot up with the installation DVD these error messages appear on the screen. [Written down by hand:] ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=0055347 ad0:

Re: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)

2008-08-07 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: Hello all, Simple question - am I able to run 64-bit linux binaries using the ABI emulation under FreeBSD 7.0 amd64? In the NOTES for amd64 kernel configuration the COMPAT_LINUX option is commented

Re: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)

2008-08-07 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Sean Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:47:45 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab) Apparently Matlab tries to allocate a continuous chunk of memory,

Re: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)

2008-08-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:52 AM, Sean Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:47:45 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab) Apparently Matlab tries to allocate a continuous

joining 2 files together ?

2008-08-07 Thread beni
Hi, I am trying to find the equivalent for the old dos copy file1+file2 command (copy myfile1.txt+myfile2.txt copies the contents in myfile2.txt and combines it with the contents in myfile1.txt). But the standard freebsd cp doesn't seem to want the + between the two files : bsdaddict# cp

Re: joining 2 files together ?

2008-08-07 Thread Bill Moran
In response to beni [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am trying to find the equivalent for the old dos copy file1+file2 command (copy myfile1.txt+myfile2.txt copies the contents in myfile2.txt and combines it with the contents in myfile1.txt). But the standard freebsd cp doesn't seem to want the +

Re: joining 2 files together ?

2008-08-07 Thread David Gurvich
You might try the old 'cat file1 file2 ... fileN'. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: joining 2 files together ?

2008-08-07 Thread Edward Ruggeri
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:38 AM, Bill Moran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But to answer your real question, you can't just mash two avi files together to make 1 big one. You'll need something like avidemux or one of the command line tools to actually get the avi headers correct. If I recall

Re: joining 2 files together ?

2008-08-07 Thread David Kelly
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:39:09AM -0400, David Gurvich wrote: You might try the old 'cat file1 file2 ... fileN'. % cat file1 file2 ... fileN fileconcatenated -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whom computers would

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Re: Disk errors on installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-08-07 Thread Lokadamus
Snorre D. Øverbø wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 release on a box at home. When I boot up with the installation DVD these error messages appear on the screen. [Written down by hand:] ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=0055347 ad0:

Re: Upgrading from 6.x to 7.x

2008-08-07 Thread Vincent Hoffman
Warren Liddell wrote: The easiest way to do the upgrade (if you are using a GENERIC kernel) is to use Freebsd-update (http://www.daemonology.net/freebsd-update/) It's a pretty powerful tool which allows you to do binary updates for FreeBSD. To upgrade between major versions you would want to

can't get skype to work

2008-08-07 Thread Reinhold
Hi I've just installed FreeBSD7-STABLE on my laptop and its running very nicely. I tried to get skype working I keep getting core dumps Here is the output from skype *** glibc detected *** skype: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0944a7b8 *** === Backtrace: =

Re: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)

2008-08-07 Thread Mark Tinguely
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:47:45 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Apparently Matlab tries to allocate a continuous chunk of memory, and we needed to upgrade to 64-bit hardware to give it access to more than 1GB of memory, which is about the most that it was able

Re: problems with a C script, exiting with signal 10

2008-08-07 Thread Patrick Mahan
Jordi Moles Blanco presented these words - circa 8/7/08 3:13 AM- Hi, I've got this home-made script, written in C, on a Freebsd 7.0 server with different versions of postfix: 2.3,2,4 and 2.5 The problem is that, while most of the time it works like a charm, sometimes it crashes and

Re: joining 2 files together ?

2008-08-07 Thread Patrick Mahan
beni presented these words - circa 8/7/08 8:34 AM- Hi, I am trying to find the equivalent for the old dos copy file1+file2 command (copy myfile1.txt+myfile2.txt copies the contents in myfile2.txt and combines it with the contents in myfile1.txt). But the standard freebsd cp doesn't seem to

Re: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)

2008-08-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Mark Tinguely wrote: Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:47:45 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Apparently Matlab tries to allocate a continuous chunk of memory, and we needed to upgrade to 64-bit hardware to give it access to more than 1GB of memory, which is about the most

Re: newsyslog.conf / rotating logs based on size AND time

2008-08-07 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:12:45 -0400, Garance A Drosehn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't looked closely at newsyslog in awhile. I started to write up a reply to you, but in a quick test newsyslog does not seem to be working the way that I expected it to work. It might just be that I

Fw: wpi not working on 11b

2008-08-07 Thread Tobias Kirschstein
hi, as i didn't get any response to my email on current list i try it here now... thanks for any help. -- ciao, tobias ---BeginMessage--- hi, since vlan came in i can't connect to any 11b network anymore using the intel wireless card with the wpi driver and i can't figure out where the

Linking amd64 binary with a 32-bit linux library

2008-08-07 Thread Maxim Khitrov
My knowledge of compilers is insufficient to answer this question. I'm currently going through the process of installing a 32-bit version of Matlab onto FreeBSD 7.0 amd64. In fact, Matlab itself has been installed and seems to be running fine (albeit without a GUI due to some java-related issues).

Re: Linking amd64 binary with a 32-bit linux library

2008-08-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Maxim Khitrov wrote: I take it that this happens because libmat.so is a linux binary, but is there any way to do what I'm after? You can't mix and match Linux and FreeBSD code in the same binary. You will have to make a completely Linux binary, either by compiling on a Linux system, or by

Re: Linking amd64 binary with a 32-bit linux library

2008-08-07 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: I take it that this happens because libmat.so is a linux binary, but is there any way to do what I'm after? You can't mix and match Linux and FreeBSD code in the same binary. You will have to make a

Re: newsyslog.conf / rotating logs based on size AND time

2008-08-07 Thread Garance A Drosehn
At 10:17 AM +0200 8/5/08, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: My question is how can I make sure the logs are rotated when they grow too large AND they are also rotated at a specified point in time (start of a new month). I am reading man newsyslog.conf and it says: If the when field contains an asterisk

Re: Remote host replies to SYN+FIN

2008-08-07 Thread kalin m
does anybody have any idea how to resolve this? thanks.. kalin m wrote: hi all... after setting up a pf rule set on one of newly installed freebsd 7 i did a scan with nessus 3 on that machine the result i got was like this one: http://www.nessus.org/plugins/index.php?view=singleid=11618

Re: Remote host replies to SYN+FIN

2008-08-07 Thread FreeBSD
kalin m a écrit : does anybody have any idea how to resolve this? thanks.. kalin m wrote: hi all... after setting up a pf rule set on one of newly installed freebsd 7 i did a scan with nessus 3 on that machine the result i got was like this one:

Re: Add CONFIGURE_ARGS option for port in make.conf

2008-08-07 Thread Martin Tournoij
On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 10:04:23AM +0200, Matthias Kellermann wrote: Hi list, I want to compile a port with an option that is not controllable through the FreeBSD Makefile or with make config. The specific port is lang/php4 and the option I want to add is --with-mime-magic (I know, php4

Re: Remote host replies to SYN+FIN

2008-08-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 7, 2008, at 11:33 AM, kalin m wrote: does anybody have any idea how to resolve this? thanks.. kalin m wrote: hi all... after setting up a pf rule set on one of newly installed freebsd 7 i did a scan with nessus 3 on that machine the result i got was like this one:

Re: Linking amd64 binary with a 32-bit linux library

2008-08-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Maxim Khitrov wrote: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: I take it that this happens because libmat.so is a linux binary, but is there any way to do what I'm after? You can't mix and match Linux and FreeBSD code in the same binary. You

having problems with dhcpd and bootp clients

2008-08-07 Thread Andrew Falanga
Hi, dhcpd starts so I know that there are no problems with my configuration file (at least syntax, I suppose that a semantic error may still be present). Running dhcpd with the -d option shows this string being placed on stderr: BOOTREQUEST from MAC via fxp0: BOOTP from dynamic client and no

Re: 64-bit Linux Binary Compatibility (for Matlab)

2008-08-07 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 07 August 2008, David Gurvich wrote: If you are looking for batch processing, octave may be an option. The objective was to be as compatible with Matlab as possible. There wasn't any gui available when I last looked at this program. There's math/koctave, which is a GUI for some

Mixing 64 and 32-bit code (was: Linking amd64 binary with a 32-bit linux library)

2008-08-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Kris Kennaway ha scritto: You can't mix and match Linux and FreeBSD code in the same binary. Sorry for stepping in, but I have a similar question I asked in the past and didn't get any answer: is it possible to mix and match 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD code? I have a closed source 32-bit

Disk quotas out of sync

2008-08-07 Thread Simon
Hello Folks, Ever since I went from 6.x to 7.x I have started experiencing disk quotas getting out of sync, way out of sync. For example, a user with 160GB quota suddenly shows usage of only 120GB This forces me to run quotacheck -av often. Was something changed regarding quotas in 7.x? Nobody

Re: Mixing 64 and 32-bit code

2008-08-07 Thread Kris Kennaway
Andrea Venturoli wrote: Kris Kennaway ha scritto: You can't mix and match Linux and FreeBSD code in the same binary. Sorry for stepping in, but I have a similar question I asked in the past and didn't get any answer: is it possible to mix and match 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD code? I have a

Re: Remote host replies to SYN+FIN

2008-08-07 Thread kalin m
i have that in i still get that message from nessus... maybe synproxy or something like S/SAF?! FreeBSD wrote: kalin m a écrit : does anybody have any idea how to resolve this? thanks.. kalin m wrote: hi all... after setting up a pf rule set on one of newly installed freebsd

Re: Remote host replies to SYN+FIN

2008-08-07 Thread kalin m
thanks... or something like it... i'll try... Chuck Swiger wrote: On Aug 7, 2008, at 11:33 AM, kalin m wrote: does anybody have any idea how to resolve this? thanks.. kalin m wrote: hi all... after setting up a pf rule set on one of newly installed freebsd 7 i did a scan with nessus 3

Resizing partitions and slices

2008-08-07 Thread David Gurvich
I have a hard drive with one slice and 3 partitions. Only two partitions are actually being used. I would like to delete the 3rd partition, resize the slice, and create a second slice the size of the deleted partition. Is there a safe way, one that preserves the data on the other 2 partitions,

Questions about healthd and mprime

2008-08-07 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
I recently got close to burning up my shiny new Athlon64 processor. (Wire got tangled up in the heatsink fan. Thankfully, I caught it in time, before the processor was fully cooked.) On and off, I was watching the BIOS system hardware monitor screen at the time, which is how I managed to catch

Re: Mixing 64 and 32-bit code (was: Linking amd64 binary with a 32-bit linux library)

2008-08-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 7, 2008, at 12:31 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: You can't mix and match Linux and FreeBSD code in the same binary. Sorry for stepping in, but I have a similar question I asked in the past and didn't get any answer: is it possible to mix and match 32-bit and 64-bit FreeBSD code? I have

Re: Questions about healthd and mprime

2008-08-07 Thread Josh Carroll
OK, so _now_ I've looked around and found out that a lot of folks these days heat up their CPUs by running the mprime thingy. Swell. But I don't know diddly poo about this program. So can somebody please tell me the set of best command line options for the thing if your only goal is to

Re: Linking amd64 binary with a 32-bit linux library

2008-08-07 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 07), Maxim Khitrov said: On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maxim Khitrov wrote: I take it that this happens because libmat.so is a linux binary, but is there any way to do what I'm after? You can't mix and match Linux and

Re: Questions about healthd and mprime

2008-08-07 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Thursday 07 August 2008, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Problem is: documentation of healthd's output is almost non-existant. OK, so when it prints those three temperature numbers, which one stands for what? And if, as I surmize, the last (and highest) one is CPU temp, then why doesn't it seem

Re: Switching to IPv6?

2008-08-07 Thread Byung-Hee HWANG
On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 13:05 -0400, FreeBSD Questions wrote: I've been considering switching my home network to IPv6. I have a computer acting as a firewall sitting between my ISP and my three LANs at home. Of course, my DSL provider gives me an IPv4 address, and everything I want to access

Re: Add CONFIGURE_ARGS option for port in make.conf

2008-08-07 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 07 Aug 2008 16:04:46 +0200, Matthias Kellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, but I thought CONFIGURE_ARGS+= should add this option and not overwrite the options from the Makefile. Therefore the plus-sign. As it has been mentioned before, /etc/make.conf is read first with your +=,

Weird Processes on my server from user....

2008-08-07 Thread Agus
Hi guys, Checking my server i found this processessThe user doesnt appear doing w..so its like if he was doing an scp or something like that...though in this case its sftp... But i read the man and doesnt have much information..so i dont understand what is going in the background with this

Re: Disk errors on installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-08-07 Thread N.J. Thomas
* Snorre D. ?verb? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-07 15:29:11+]: When I boot up with the installation DVD these error messages appear on the screen. ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=0055347 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR

Re: Upgrading from 6.x to 7.x

2008-08-07 Thread Warren Liddell
On Thursday 07 August 2008 23:18:34 Marc Coyles wrote: If i have read the man pages correct the command im using being ... # freebsd-update upgrade -r 7.0-CURRENT # sh freebsd-update.sh -f freebsd-update.conf -r 7.0-RELEASE upgrade followed eventually by... # sh freebsd-update.sh -f

Re: Questions about healthd and mprime

2008-08-07 Thread Ronald F. Guilmette
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], you wrote: On Thursday 07 August 2008, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote: Problem is: documentation of healthd's output is almost non-existant. OK, so when it prints those three temperature numbers, which one stands for what? And if, as I surmize, the last (and highest)

Re: Remote host replies to SYN+FIN

2008-08-07 Thread Michael Powell
kalin m wrote: does anybody have any idea how to resolve this? [snip] Not without a lot more information. But I may be able to fathom some wild guess, generically speaking. Only allow connections to set up like this: pass out quick on $ExtIF inet proto tcp all flags S/SA keep state pass

apple mac laptop.

2008-08-07 Thread Gary Kline
People, My daughter wants a laptop; the only brand [ AFAIC ] is Apple. amazon.com seems to have a fair price. Her school requires Word, for some reason. {maybe because we're in X-Bill country:} Anyway, if anybody onlist knows of a better place to buy an online Mac laptop, please drop a line.

Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-07 Thread Sahil Tandon
Gary Kline [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My daughter wants a laptop; the only brand [ AFAIC ] is Apple. amazon.com seems to have a fair price. Her school requires Word, for some reason. {maybe because we're in X-Bill country:} Anyway, if anybody onlist knows of a better place to buy an online

[OT] Re: apple mac laptop.

2008-08-07 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 7, 2008, at 3:42 PM, Gary Kline wrote: My daughter wants a laptop; the only brand [ AFAIC ] is Apple. amazon.com seems to have a fair price. Her school requires Word, for some reason. {maybe because we're in X-Bill country:} Anyway, if anybody onlist knows of a better place to buy an

Re: Questions about healthd and mprime

2008-08-07 Thread Josh Carroll
Try sysutils/k8temp. When run with -n, it only prints the CPU's temperature. U... On the system I'm most interested in at the moment, which has only _one_ athlon64 _single core_ processor in the whole system, k8temp -n prints this: 19 10 Well it may not work properly on your particular

Wireless (Edimax EW-7128g / ral) to work on FreeBSD 7.0

2008-08-07 Thread RODNEY ROGER
Hi, I'm running FreeBSD 7.0 and have been having trouble getting a connection to my wireless access point with the ral driver. This is the contents of my /etc/rc.conf: ifconfig_ral0=ssid myssid wepmode on weptxkey 1 wepkey key here bssid ap bssid DHCP When I run 'dhclient ral0' to get the

Questions about coretemp

2008-08-07 Thread ben
the Questions about healthd and mprime thread lead me to try recompile and install a freebsd 7.0 kernel with device coretemp on reboot i thought i would find a sysctl variable dev.cpu.%d.temperature but i don't. i don't even see anything in dmesg about coretemp that is, exept for when i

Re: Disk errors on installing FreeBSD 7.0

2008-08-07 Thread Al Plant
N.J. Thomas wrote: * Snorre D. ?verb? [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-08-07 15:29:11+]: When I boot up with the installation DVD these error messages appear on the screen. ad1: FAILURE - READ_DMA status=51READY,DSC,ERROR error=84ICRC,ABORTED LBA=0055347 ad0: FAILURE - READ_DMA

Re: Cluster Filesystem

2008-08-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:10:52 +0200 Rudi Kramer - MWEB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't forget about the HAMMER file system which Matthew Dillon over at DragonFly BSD is busy working on. It's not 100% finished but hopefully soon and it should be ported to FreeBSD. It looks to be pretty good

Re: Cluster Filesystem

2008-08-07 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 13:10:52 +0200 Rudi Kramer - MWEB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We have setup hadoop on FreeBSD, bit of mission cause of java and I'm not sure about performance but it can be done :) http://hadoop.apache.org/core/ Hi Rudi, what versions of fbsd , java, hadoop and DB have u

A few questions from a current linux user

2008-08-07 Thread Krishna Mohan Gundu
Hi, I am currently using Fedora Core 4 linux distribution for my everyday needs like programming, checking emails etc on my two year old HP laptop. I feel that time has come for me to move away from Fedora. I wasted a lot of time compiling libraries and their dependencies. I could benefit from

RE: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System

2008-08-07 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Gonzalo Nemmi Sent: Tuesday, July 22, 2008 2:06 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System Actually .. I'd be more than willing

Re: A few questions from a current linux user

2008-08-07 Thread Polytropon
Hi! On Thu, 7 Aug 2008 23:20:08 -0400, Krishna Mohan Gundu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) Is a feature similar to magic SysRq in linux necessary for FreeBSD? (As I understand there is no such feature in FreeBSD) As far as I know, most window managers are able to be configured in a way that you

RE: A few questions from a current linux user

2008-08-07 Thread David Christensen
Krishna Mohan Gundu wrote: I feel that time has come for me to move away from Fedora. PS: I am considering Debian as another alternative. I've done both Red Hat and Debian, and prefer FreeBSD. I suggest that you get yourself some 7.0-RELEASE CD's, buy this book, and go for it: