Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread Mark Blackman
O. Hartmann wrote: well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards Hmm, interesting requirement. Sounds like a nice Google SoC project or even

Re: USGS ISIS 3.2.1: build failure on FBSD 8.1/9.0 due to oudated xerxec-c2 ?

2010-11-10 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/09/10 22:06, O. Hartmann wrote: On 11/09/10 21:52, Gary Jennejohn wrote: On Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:34:48 +0100 O. Hartmannohart...@mail.zedat.fu-berlin.de wrote: Hello. Tried to build the newest ISIS 3.2.1 software package for planetary survey science, but fail. I always get the following

FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello out there, well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a kind of Linux facility to ensure having the software and tools I

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:02:34 +0100 Michael Ross michael.r...@gmx.net wrote: For Windows OSes there is actually a rather nice tool out there, http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ which allows you to script the GUI cross-app. Microsoft also have the UI Automation API to script GUI

CPIO compatibility with Freebsd 8[.1]

2010-11-10 Thread Pico Geyer
Hi all. I recently noticed that I could not extract a cpio archive that I have on my Freebsd 8.0 machine. I thought that the archive might be corrupt so I compared the md5sum to a backup that I have and it was fine. I then tried to extract the archive on Freebsd 7.2 and it extracted without

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread Ivan Voras
On 11/10/10 13:24, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello out there, well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a kind of Linux facility to

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread C. Bergström
Mark Blackman wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards Hmm, interesting requirement. Sounds like a nice Google SoC

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread Mark Blackman
C. Bergström wrote: This project is by far too much for a gsoc student not to mention who would mentor it... People throw around the term GPGPU/CUDA too much and don't realize that it breaks down into... fair point, I assumed it was a simple driver question. - Mark

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread C. Bergström
Mark Blackman wrote: C. Bergström wrote: This project is by far too much for a gsoc student not to mention who would mentor it... People throw around the term GPGPU/CUDA too much and don't realize that it breaks down into... fair point, I assumed it was a simple driver question. We

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Mario Lobo
On Wednesday 10 November 2010 06:21:18 Bruce Cran wrote: On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 04:02:34 +0100 Michael Ross michael.r...@gmx.net wrote: For Windows OSes there is actually a rather nice tool out there, http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/ which allows you to script the GUI

kern.smp.topology

2010-11-10 Thread Ivan Klymenko
Hello! People. Who can explain the purpose of sysctl variable kern.smp.topology? What does it affect? It may take such values: 1 -Dual core with no sharing. 2 -No topology, all cpus are equal. 3 -Dual core with shared L2. 4 -quad core, shared l3 among each package, private

Re: Multiple tun loadbalancing question

2010-11-10 Thread Leonardo Santagostini
Ok, Sorry by the late but yesterday when i went home, 2 of my 3 modems stopped working. One of them, provider problem, the other so strange, i can get connected in my xp box but no in FreeBSD, lookup deeper i realized that enumeration of the usb port number has changed. I change my

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread C. Bergström
O. Hartmann wrote: Hello out there, well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a kind of Linux facility to ensure having the

Re: Package deinstall woes since new portupgrade arrived

2010-11-10 Thread Tobias
On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 11:50 PM, Tobias tobi...@gmail.com wrote: Howdy freebsd-questions - almost every day I run a portupgrade --batch -rav over my installed packages on my FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0 system. Two days ago I noticed that portupgrade itself was updated and that subsequent packages

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 11/10/10 13:24, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello out there, [...] I think that the general opinion is that Gentoo has the closest thing to that aspect of FreeBSD. Other than that, IIRC Slackware is also build-friendly.

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread Chris Brennan
On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:58 AM, Alejandro Imass a...@p2ee.org wrote: On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 7:31 AM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: On 11/10/10 13:24, O. Hartmann wrote: Hello out there, [...] I think that the general opinion is that Gentoo has the closest thing to that

Problems Hooking Sudoers into PAM/LDAP

2010-11-10 Thread bluethundr
Hey list!! I am attempting to solve a rather thorny issue and I was hoping that someone might have some insight into what is going on here.. At this point I have an openLDAP server that is working quite splendidly! :) I have a working directory with users able to authenticate it and TLS turned

Problems Hooking Sudoers into PAM/LDAP (corrected post)

2010-11-10 Thread bluethundr
Hey list!! Sorry for the accidentally truncated post I sent a little while ago...heh! That was actually the result of a fat-fingered copy-paste... At any rate, I am attempting to solve a rather thorny issue and I was hoping that someone might have some insight into what is going on here.. At

How do we like our base kerberos? Will it flee soon?

2010-11-10 Thread Leon Meßner
Hi, I'm looking for workarounds for this crappy situation which currently prevents FreeBSD8 from working together with libgssapi (see kern/147454) and multiple threads on -questions. What i tried: - Use old RELENG_8 and RELENG_8_1 sources where Benjamin's patch still applied. (Can't build

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Rob Farmer on Tuesday, 09 November 2010: On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 16:09, Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com wrote: A GUI provids a  _fixed_ set of predefined operations that it is possible to perform. IF your needs are met =entirely= by the provided operations, great.  If not,

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Michael Ross on Wednesday, 10 November 2010: Am 10.11.2010, 01:09 Uhr, schrieb Robert Bonomi bon...@mail.r-bonomi.com: With a GUI there is no way to describe the series of mouse 'motions'/'clicks'/ 'double-clicks'/'drags' and keypresses required to perform an operation. 'screen

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread App Deb
2010/11/10 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Hello out there, well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to setup a kind of

Re: Tips for installing windows and freeBSD both.. anyone??

2010-11-10 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 09:57:17 -0800 Chip Camden sterl...@camdensoftware.com wrote: However, for automating repeated tasks (as distinguished from running automated tests of the GUI itself), scripting a GUI is the wrong way to do it. It's layering on an entirely unnecessary layer of abstraction

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread C. Bergström
App Deb wrote: 2010/11/10 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Hello out there, well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards I need to

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
I am interested to use CUDA as well for a scientific environment. What about CUDA 64bit on FreeBSD? Is it excluded completely because of the lack of support for Linux 64bit emulation? Thanks! 2010/11/10 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com App Deb wrote: 2010/11/10 O. Hartmann

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread App Deb
2010/11/10 C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com: App Deb wrote: 2010/11/10 O. Hartmann ohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Hello out there, well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support

UFS Snapshots and iowait

2010-11-10 Thread Chris St Denis
I have started using mount -u -o snapshot as part of my backup process in order to have a week worth of local differential backups to allow quick and easy recovery of lost/overwritten/etc files. The snapshot of the partition (~250G and 2.3 million inodes used. ~10GB of data change per day)

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/10/10 19:07, App Deb wrote: 2010/11/10 O. Hartmannohart...@zedat.fu-berlin.de: Hello out there, well, my question may sound heretic, but since we use mostly Linux based systems in our scientific environment and FreeBSD seems to lack in severe support in GPGPU/CUDA capable graphics boards

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread C. Bergström
O. Hartmann wrote: The NVIDIA FreeBSD driver provides the cuda libraries for linux compatibilty. So 32-bit Linux Cuda applications should work on FreeBSD. There are some other, very serious questions. AMD calims that they made the specs of their 3D chipset internals public. The docs had

VS: Problems updating IonCube

2010-11-10 Thread Hasse Hansson
Fra: Hasse Hansson [mailto:ha...@thorshammare.org] Sendt: den 10 november 2010 20:13 Til: 'owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org' Emne: Problems updating IonCube Hello all This is what's happening when I try to update devel/ioncube -

SV: Problems updating IonCube

2010-11-10 Thread Hasse Hansson
-Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] På vegne af Hasse Hansson Sendt: den 10 november 2010 20:43 Til: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Emne: VS: Problems updating IonCube Fra: Hasse Hansson

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/10/10 20:15, C. Bergström wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: The NVIDIA FreeBSD driver provides the cuda libraries for linux compatibilty. So 32-bit Linux Cuda applications should work on FreeBSD. There are some other, very serious questions. AMD calims that they made the specs of their 3D

Re: FreeBSD-similar build-from-source Linux?

2010-11-10 Thread O. Hartmann
On 11/10/10 20:15, C. Bergström wrote: O. Hartmann wrote: The NVIDIA FreeBSD driver provides the cuda libraries for linux compatibilty. So 32-bit Linux Cuda applications should work on FreeBSD. There are some other, very serious questions. AMD calims that they made the specs of their 3D

GPT Question

2010-11-10 Thread Mark Caudill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Firstly, hello list. This is my first post here and while I'm a long time Linux user, I'm a recent FreeBSD convert so please bear with me. Yesterday I installed an extra hard drive that used to be in a Windows 7 box. In sysinstall I ran fdisk then

Re: GPT Question

2010-11-10 Thread Michael Powell
Mark Caudill wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Firstly, hello list. This is my first post here and while I'm a long time Linux user, I'm a recent FreeBSD convert so please bear with me. Yesterday I installed an extra hard drive that used to be in a Windows 7 box. In