Re: screen saver

On 11/07/2010 4:00 π.μ., Giorgos Tsiapaliokas wrote: > hello, > > i am new to the freebsd world and i am trying to put screen saver to my box. > > i have a freebsd 8.0-release,i386 system i have loaded to rc.conf > > > saver="rain" > > > i have gave the command "vidcontrol -t 3" in the tty

screen saver

hello, i am new to the freebsd world and i am trying to put screen saver to my box. i have a freebsd 8.0-release,i386 system i have loaded to rc.conf saver="rain" i have gave the command "vidcontrol -t 3" in the ttyv and i am in ttyv but screen saver doesn't appear after 3 seconds.

Re: how to setenv using Bourne .sh

Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:43:13 +, "b. f." wrote: Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:53:17 +0800, Aiza wrote: Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this setenv PKGDIR="/usr/packages" and get this error message setenv: Syntax Error. Of course

Re: Global backup solution for FBSD & Ubuntu

On 7/4/2010 4:43 PM, bsd wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to build a global backup solution for couple of strategic servers > (7) based on two operating systems : > > - FreeBSD (6 - 7 // soon 7 - 8) > - Ubuntu 8.04 LTS > > These servers are hosting some strategic components mainly related to D

Re: shrinking swap space

Robert & Chuck, Thanks for your answers... they sound like good clues. I'll need to read up some more to understand the answers :-) Thanks! -- John ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:28 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 2:38 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote: >> >> Or, to be more precise, is it possible that write(2) returns 0 for >> some reason, perhaps because the device isn't ready and can't >> accept more data, so it says that it wrote 0

Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 2:38 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote: >> Are you aware of short writes? >> >> static int write_buf (int fd, const char *buf, size_t s) >> { >>  ssize_t r = write(fd, buf, s); >>  if (r == -1) >>    fprintf(stderr, "write error: %s\n", strerror(errno)); >>  return r >= 0; >> } >> >> W

Re: Freebsd Firefox problems

Hartmann, O. wrote: On 07/10/10 02:46, Sander Janssen wrote: Hello, I am currently having the same problems you were having with firefox 3.6 on FreeBSD in February (I found the threads on the Freebsd-Ports mailing list). The thread doesn't seem to come up with an answer and I am wondering if

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Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 6:03 PM, C. P. Ghost wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Patrick Donnelly > wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Giorgos Keramidas >> wrote: >>> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:10:31 -0400, Patrick Donnelly >>> wrote: Hi List, I have a strange proble

Re: how to setenv using Bourne .sh

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:43:13 +, "b. f." wrote: > Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:53:17 +0800, Aiza wrote: > >> Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this > >> > >> > >> setenv PKGDIR="/usr/packages" and get this error message > >> setenv: Syntax Error. > > >

Re: Disk very slow in FreeBSD

On 07/09/10 20:26, Depo Catcher wrote: I've tried everything here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15747 and here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15722 Also followed this: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.p...8&postcount=38

Re: Squirrel Mail Time Zone Errors

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 8:43 AM, Amitabh Kant wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Chris Maness wrote: >> >> Is anyone getting these errors when logging in to Squirrel Mail? >> >> Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on >> the system's timezone settings. You are

Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:53 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote: > On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Giorgos Keramidas > wrote: >> On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:10:31 -0400, Patrick Donnelly >> wrote: >>> Hi List, >>> >>> I have a strange problem in a C program I wrote. I open a hard >>> disk character file (

Re: Squirrel Mail Time Zone Errors

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:01 PM, Chris Maness wrote: > Is anyone getting these errors when logging in to Squirrel Mail? > > Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on > the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the > date.timezone setting or the date_defa

Squirrel Mail Time Zone Errors

Is anyone getting these errors when logging in to Squirrel Mail? Warning: strtotime() [function.strtotime]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those metho

Re: how to setenv using Bourne .sh

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:43:13 + b. f. articulated: > Polytropon wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:53:17 +0800, Aiza wrote: > >> Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this > >> > >> > >> setenv PKGDIR="/usr/packages" and get this error message > >> setenv: Syntax Error. >

Re: how to setenv using Bourne .sh

Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:53:17 +0800, Aiza wrote: >> Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this >> >> >> setenv PKGDIR="/usr/packages" and get this error message >> setenv: Syntax Error. > >Of course. The sh shell doesn't have setenv. It looks like he is ac

Re: how to setenv using Bourne .sh

Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:53:17 +0800, Aiza wrote: Trying the set the pkg_add environment variable PKGDIR using this setenv PKGDIR="/usr/packages" and get this error message setenv: Syntax Error. Of course. The sh shell doesn't have setenv. man setenv is useless. The m

Re: Disk very slow in FreeBSD

10.07.2010 05:26, Depo Catcher wrote: I've tried everything here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15747 and here: http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=15722 Also followed this: http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.p...8&postcount=38

Re: Reconstruct meaningful data from tcpdumps?

On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 11:17:55PM -0600, Modulok wrote: Hi, > Is there a way to reconstruct network traffic from a tcpdump file? Or > something similar? As in: analyze the dump file and attempt to > re-construct files transfered though http, ftp, known messenger > protocols, instant message conv

Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 4:01 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:10:31 -0400, Patrick Donnelly > wrote: >> Hi List, >> >> I have a strange problem in a C program I wrote. I open a hard >> disk character file (/dev/ad1) and attempt to write over the >> entire disk. I expect the

Fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode

On a recently, from FreeBSD7.2 to 8.0, upgraded system, I got a spontaneous reboot during last night. A crash dump was made. files in /var/crash contain: # cat info.0 Dump header from device /dev/da0s1b Architecture: amd64 Architecture Version: 2 Dump Length: 2046042112B (1951 MB) Blocksi

Re: Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

On Sat, 10 Jul 2010 03:10:31 -0400, Patrick Donnelly wrote: > Hi List, > > I have a strange problem in a C program I wrote. I open a hard > disk character file (/dev/ad1) and attempt to write over the > entire disk. I expect the last write that would go beyond the > hard disk length (capacity) to

Re: Freebsd Firefox problems

On 07/10/10 02:46, Sander Janssen wrote: Hello, I am currently having the same problems you were having with firefox 3.6 on FreeBSD in February (I found the threads on the Freebsd-Ports mailing list). The thread doesn't seem to come up with an answer and I am wondering if you managed to solve

Writes to Hard Disk Going Beyond Capacity

Hi List, I have a strange problem in a C program I wrote. I open a hard disk character file (/dev/ad1) and attempt to write over the entire disk. I expect the last write that would go beyond the hard disk length (capacity) to return with an error but instead the write succeeds. This happens for hu