Re: (no subject)

2009-01-04 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:54 AM, Sydney Longfellow syd...@panhistoria.com wrote: Greetings. I am having a problem with processes building up until the server locks up. By viewing top what I'm seeing is it going up to 400 processes with most sleeping and a lot of lockf and sbwait states on the

Re: iwi on 7-STABLE

2009-01-04 Thread Peter Harrison
Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 2:06:55 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark said: Peter Harrison wrote: Tuesday, 30 December 2008 at 23:49:23 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark said: Hi all, Here I am away with the family visiting friends and I REALLY need to get the iwi if up and running. It's a

OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so what value of x in xU should I get? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 02:48:30PM +0100, Peter Boosten wrote: On 4 jan 2009, at 14:35, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Small related question is there any long term harm to laying a disk on

USB printer problem

2009-01-04 Thread Mario Lobo
Hi; I've been trying for 2 days with no success Here is the setup: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE #0: Wed Dec 10 22:25:05 BRT 200 -printer detected kernel: ulpt0: HP Deskjet D1500 series, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 kernel: ulpt0: using bi-directional mode /etc/devfs.conf own ulpt0 root:cups

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:30:50AM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so what value of x in

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Jon Radel
Erik Trulsson wrote: I suspect that many co-location services either only accepts rack-mountable servers, or charge extra for non-rackmounted cases, so it might be worth checking that. A non-rackmountable case would require a shelf of some sort, which costs money and generally uses up a bit

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Jon Radel wrote: Erik Trulsson wrote: I suspect that many co-location services either only accepts rack-mountable servers, or charge extra for non-rackmounted cases, so it might be worth checking that. A non-rackmountable case would require a shelf of some sort, which costs money

PATH braincramp

2009-01-04 Thread Tim Kellers
I'm having a tussle with one of those things I've done a zillion times, but now I can't fathom what the heck is wrong. When I run flexbackup from a cron job (as root) , the following error is returned by e-mail to root: Errors: mbuffer not found in $PATH dump not found in $PATH restore not

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Erik Trulsson wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:30:50AM -0500, Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and all the providers list pricing in rackmount

Re: PATH braincramp

2009-01-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:48:36 -0500, Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com wrote: I'm having a tussle with one of those things I've done a zillion times, but now I can't fathom what the heck is wrong. When I run flexbackup from a cron job (as root) , the following error is returned by e-mail to

Re: USB printer problem

2009-01-04 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Sunday 04 January 2009 2:21:34 pm Mario Lobo wrote: Hi; I've been trying for 2 days with no success Here is the setup: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE #0: Wed Dec 10 22:25:05 BRT 200 -printer detected kernel: ulpt0: HP Deskjet D1500 series, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1 kernel: ulpt0: using

Re[2]: local copy of handbook

2009-01-04 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Jerry, For more information see http://docsnap.sk.freebsd.org/ and possibly the rsync manual page. I was having a problem reaching that URL; however, I found that this one: http://www.oook.cz/bsd/docsnap.html did seem to work. In any case, I am unable to get the 'rsync' command to work.

DNS Forwarder, Proxy or ?

2009-01-04 Thread Len Gross
I have set up a FreeBSD box as a router; works great. The router (machine B) is a DHCP client to another box (Machine A) that provides it with its IP address and its DNS server address. When I hook up a new box (Machine C) to Machine B, I provide it with Machine B's private IP address as its

Re: Setting up a PDF printer

2009-01-04 Thread Warren Block
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009, Keith Seyffarth wrote: What do I need to install to make printing a pdf from the print command in an appliction as an option. It looks like panda may do this, but I'm unsure. My immediate goal is to be able to print invoices to .pdf from gnucash. If the program lets you

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Glen Barber wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so what value of x in xU should I get? When it comes to

tcpdump filter for out/in traffic

2009-01-04 Thread KES
Здравствуйте, Questions. There will be very usefull to have options for tcpdump to monitor incomint or outgoing traffic regardless of src/dst IPs or ports or protocol For example: kes# tcpdump -n -i rl4 out EXPECTED: show traffic outgoing on rl4 ACTUAL: tcpdump: syntax error kes# tcpdump -n

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-04 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:28:46 +0100 Daniel Gerzo dan...@freebsd.org wrote: The docsnap.sk.FreeBSD.org (as well as ftp.sk and cvsup.sk) server is currently offline due to some problems after its update. Unfortunately it's been a vacations period here and we were unable to get personally to the box

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
If a hard disk formatted and used in a position , in that position it may be used if manufacturer is NOT advised a specific position . After loading of files into hard disk , change of position may cause difficulty in reading of already recorded data . This point should be considered . On Sun,

(no subject)

2009-01-04 Thread Sydney Longfellow
Greetings. I am having a problem with processes building up until the server locks up. By viewing top what I'm seeing is it going up to 400 processes with most sleeping and a lot of lockf and sbwait states on the processes. Any idea what would cause this? Thanks!

Re: PATH braincramp

2009-01-04 Thread Tim Kellers
Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:48:36 -0500, Tim Kellers timot...@wallnet.com wrote: I'm having a tussle with one of those things I've done a zillion times, but now I can't fathom what the heck is wrong. When I run flexbackup from a cron job (as root) , the following error

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Peter Boosten
On 4 jan 2009, at 14:35, Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Small related question is there any long term harm to laying a disk on it's side (i.e. it lays flat when the tower is up right but on it's side

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-04 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:59:04 -0500 Randy Pratt bsd-u...@embarqmail.com wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:39:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Monday 29 December 2008 18:15:58 RW wrote: On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 10:16:42 +0530 Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: lso

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:21 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so what value of x in xU should I get? When it comes to rackmounts, 1U = 1.75 inches.

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com Small related question is there any long term harm to laying a disk on it's side (i.e. it lays flat when the tower is up right but on it's side squeezed into a rack) The ideal answer is 'no'. The 'safe' answer is

Re: local copy of handbook

2009-01-04 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 09:27:31 +0530, Masoom Shaikh masoom.sha...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 9:19 PM, Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: I'd be happy to review the patch that Gabor has written if necessary add or subtract from it. It will take me a bit of time to

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 01:07:57 -0600 (CST), Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: Enable beastie and you won't have to look at the ugly letters. Or disable the lines include /boot/beastie.4th and beastie-start prefixing them with a backslash in /boot/loader.rc, and put

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, enterprise-grade operating

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 1:26 AM, Ryan da Silva rdasi...@greenfield.com wrote: Hello, If someone could pass this suggestion on i'd appreciate it. It's going to sound a little picky, and probably crazy but I'm an honest and forward person so I'll just say it. Someone needs to change the

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1U=4.5cm On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have a server that is a full tower case and want to co-locate it and all the providers list pricing in rackmount units so what value of x in xU should I get? ___

Re: iwi on 7-STABLE

2009-01-04 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Peter Harrison wrote: Wednesday, 31 December 2008 at 2:06:55 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark said: Peter Harrison wrote: Tuesday, 30 December 2008 at 23:49:23 +0100, Per olof Ljungmark said: Hi all, Here I am away with the family visiting friends and I REALLY need to get the iwi if up and

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-04 Thread stan
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:00:44PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:51:15PM -0500, stan wrote: Looking at the doc, you referenced, it appears that I should be able to connect to beachcave.net/install.php Doing so resluts in: The requested URL /install.php

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-04 Thread stan
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:00:44PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:51:15PM -0500, stan wrote: Looking at the doc, you referenced, it appears that I should be able to connect to beachcave.net/install.php Doing so resluts in: The requested URL /install.php

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread perryh
Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: 1U=4.5cm Approximately :) At least in the US, 1U = 1.75 inches = 4.445 cm, so an 18cm case will not quite fit into 4U. Perhaps metric racks are different. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread perryh
If a hard disk formatted and used in a position , in that position it may be used if manufacturer is NOT advised a specific position. After loading of files into hard disk , change of position may cause difficulty in reading of already recorded data . This point should be considered . Sun,

Re: Troubles upgrading from 6.3 to 7

2009-01-04 Thread Tim
Steven Barre wrote: Hello I am new to bsd. I'm trying to upgrade from 6.3 Release to the latest stable 7. I created the following csup file *default host=cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 *default delete use-rel-suffix

Re: Troubles upgrading from 6.3 to 7

2009-01-04 Thread Tim
Steven Barre wrote: Hello I am new to bsd. I'm trying to upgrade from 6.3 Release to the latest stable 7. I created the following csup file *default host=cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 *default delete use-rel-suffix

Re: Portuguese accents

2009-01-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:47:08PM +, Daniel Leal wrote: Hi! I am portuguese, and so I need accents above a few letter, like a, e and i. I mean: ã â á à é è í ì ê, etc etc etc... I am really confused with the accents. In most X apps these accents work well, but for example, in a

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
1U=4.5cm Approximately :) at least in poland it's said that. i must check in my 12U rack ;) At least in the US, 1U = 1.75 inches = 4.445 cm, so an 18cm case will not quite fit into 4U. Perhaps metric racks are different. well it will with slight amount of pressure ;) to compensate this

FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-04 Thread David Christensen
freebsd-questions: I'm building a fresh Amanda server using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=miscportname=amand a-server Most of my software background is GNU/Linux. I would prefer using the Bash shell, but the default FreeBSD shell for root

Re: PATH braincramp

2009-01-04 Thread Aggelidis Nikos
Giorgios, THANK YOU! i'll second that! he is helpfull and polite, as always! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-04 Thread Modulok
Does anybody know if it's okay to change the root shell? A topic of debate, but yes it is okay to change the root shell, but there are some things to know... Some people fret about the idea that shells like bash are not on the root partition and are usually dynamically linked to libraries which

Re: FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386 will changing root shell break anything?

2009-01-04 Thread matt donovan
On Sun, Jan 4, 2009 at 5:09 PM, David Christensen dpchr...@holgerdanske.com wrote: freebsd-questions: I'm building a fresh Amanda server using FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-i386: http://portsmon.freebsd.org/portoverview.py?category=miscportname=amand

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 04:02:53PM +0100, cpghost wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 01:26:03AM -0500, Ryan da Silva wrote: Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Modulok
FreeBSD is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Don`t get me wrong, I loved the days of the BBS. But it`s 2009 and FreeBSD is a solid, professional, enterprise-grade operating system and the silly ASCII logo is the only thing that says

make pdf from webpage on webserver (no x11)

2009-01-04 Thread B. Cook
Trying to figure out how to print a webpage on the server, without a gui.. On the local test webserver that we have we are trying to figure out how we can from php (or anything else) print a webpage to a pdf.. Anyone have a clue as to how to do this? Or is this some major php programming to

Re: make pdf from webpage on webserver (no x11)

2009-01-04 Thread Yuri Pankov
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 07:35:03PM -0500, B. Cook wrote: Trying to figure out how to print a webpage on the server, without a gui.. On the local test webserver that we have we are trying to figure out how we can from php (or anything else) print a webpage to a pdf.. Anyone have a clue as

Re: USB printer problem

2009-01-04 Thread Mario Lobo
On Sunday 04 January 2009 14:18:06 Gonzalo Nemmi wrote: On Sunday 04 January 2009 2:21:34 pm Mario Lobo wrote: Hi; I've been trying for 2 days with no success Here is the setup: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE #0: Wed Dec 10 22:25:05 BRT 200 -printer detected kernel: ulpt0: HP Deskjet

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-04 Thread Ryan da Silva
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN HTML HEAD META HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type CONTENT=text/html; charset=utf-8 META NAME=Generator CONTENT=MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7651.59 TITLERe: Suggestion/TITLE /HEAD BODY !-- Converted from text/plain format -- PFONT SIZE=2Thanks everyone. The

Re: OT: how many rankmount units is a tower-case

2009-01-04 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 12:42:02PM -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: If a hard disk formatted and used in a position , in that position it may be used if manufacturer is NOT advised a specific position. After loading of files into hard disk , change of position may cause difficulty in

FIXED: vpnc connects, but does not work

2009-01-04 Thread perryh
I have installed vpnc to connect to an employer's Cisco VPN system, and it seems to make the connection, but after connecting I can't ping the gateway nor anything beyond it ... It turned out the only problem was the absence of NAT Traversal Mode cisco-udp in vpnc.conf. (Presumably

Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-04 Thread Charles Richards
Just FWIW, the proper way to do online expansion with ZFS is quite different than that of a RAID controller, as doing a regular OCE process is quite difficult in ZFS (due to the variable-size stripes that ZFS uses, which makes the simple expansion of regular RAID-5 or RAID-6 not workable -

zip files...

2009-01-04 Thread Gary Kline
guys, i have three huge zip files, .zip, and z02, z01. how do i unzip these into the original? gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org http://www.thought.org Public Service Unix http://jottings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org The 2.17a release of Jottings:

Re: zip files...

2009-01-04 Thread prad
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:48:21 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: how do i unzip these into the original? hello gary, use unzip filename. if you don't have (un)zip installed you can get them with pkg_add -r zip unzip (assuming you can become root) -- In friendship, prad

why printf() don't work?

2009-01-04 Thread Edward King
I use FreeBSD7.0,and use signal,like follows: signal(SIGHUP,sig_hup); signal(SIGIO,sig_io); when I run call following code,it can run,but I find a puzzled question,it should print some information,such as printf(execute main()) will print execute main(),but in fact,printf fuction print none!!!

Re: zip files...

2009-01-04 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 11:36:27PM -0800, prad wrote: On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 22:48:21 -0800 Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: how do i unzip these into the original? hello gary, use unzip filename. if you don't have (un)zip installed you can get them with pkg_add -r zip unzip