Re: display resolution on my thinkpad t61

2011-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 23:41:05 +0100, Alokat wrote: > On 02/25/11 22:45, Alokat wrote: > > 1440x900 is enough for the external but the internal can / should use > > 1680x1050. > > How can I add this to xrandr? > I got it ... > Just started without the external monitor and after that use this comman

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 14:10:33 -0600, "Edwin L. Culp W." wrote: > So > it appears that there isn't a major window manager that doesn't > require hal, one way or the other. To be precise: There isn't a major DESKTOP ENVIRONMENT (as there are just the "big three" KDE, Gnome, Xfce - that doesn't requ

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 12:32:48 -0600 (CST), Robert Bonomi wrote: > > > Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:38:14 -0500 > > From: Jerry > > Subject: Re: HAL's demise > > > > GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the transition a > > couple of months back. Other distros are apparently not ev

Re: Kernel swap zone exhausted, what is the max allowed? FBSD 7.2

2011-02-25 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Mark Terribile wrote: > I don't explicitly set kern.maxswzone anywhere and it is at its apparent > maximum and default of 32M (33554432). > > Does anyone know if the maximum can be increased? (What actually is it > used for?) I do use lots of memory-intensive pro

Re: How can I disable Internet access for programs running in Wine?

2011-02-25 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Nothing to do oh, freebsd-questions stay in bat! 2011/02/25 01:07:58 -0800 erikmccaskey64 => To freebsd : e> I just can find any solution... I was sure that ipfw can select packets by process name? at least there are pf and ipf options out there... You can always use jail(4) in conjunction with

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Dean E. Weimer
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 16:09:31 -0500, Greg Larkin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 3:00 PM, Mark Felder wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:29 -0600, Greg Larkin wrote: I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN [1]) before, but I wonder if it would help y

Re: Is CTM still being offered for updating FreeBSD?

2011-02-25 Thread Eitan Adler
 Why is this question even arising? Surely there are other > problems that need to be addressed much more than the ending of a > useful, uncontroversial service by someone who is not familiar with > it? I am familiar with it. I just happened to notice that the mailing lists were empty and therefo

Re: Is CTM still being offered for updating FreeBSD?

2011-02-25 Thread b. f.
>So I have a few questions: >1) Is it still being offered and supported as a method of updating >FreeBSD systems? As of today, yes -- I have recent deltas in my mailbox. But you could easily check by subscribing, and looking at: http://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/CTM where the deltas are still

Kernel swap zone exhausted, what is the max allowed? FBSD 7.2

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Terribile
Hi, I was recently forced to reboot a 7.2 machine after it had run for several months. (Upgrade is not a possibility right now.) The (apparently) relevant part of /var/log/messages reads -- Feb 23 13:10:58 gold kernel: pid 9864 (to), uid 1001: exited on signal 6 (core dumpe

Re: GELI reliability

2011-02-25 Thread Modulok
>> I've used ZFS over GELI in the past, but never had any hardware issues to >> see how it plays out. I have no idea on that kind of a setup. If I were you I'd make a test system, start an scp command to copy some file from another machine, then start unplugging hard drives. When done, run a diff

Re: display resolution on my thinkpad t61

2011-02-25 Thread Alokat
On 02/25/11 22:45, Alokat wrote: Hi, I'm trying to modify my screen resolutions (use an external and the internal monitor). xrandr -q says: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 960, maximum 2720 x 1024 VGA connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 408mm x 255m

Is CTM still being offered for updating FreeBSD?

2011-02-25 Thread Eitan Adler
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/ctm-src-8/ appears to be empty and http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/ctm-users/2009-December/000226.html seems to be the last mention of CTM on any of the related mailing lists (other than a few people asking if it was down). So I have a few questions: 1) Is it

Re: Upgrading 7.1 to 7.3, use 7.2 as a safe step?

2011-02-25 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 25, 2011 1:39:47 PM -0800 Nerius Landys wrote: For me, time can be spared, but errors should be avoided at all costs. I have upgraded FreeBSD before, for example 7.0 -> 7.1. I use the buildworld/buildkernel procedure. I now have a 7.1 system. Should I upgrade to 7.2 and then to

display resolution on my thinkpad t61

2011-02-25 Thread Alokat
Hi, I'm trying to modify my screen resolutions (use an external and the internal monitor). xrandr -q says: Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1440 x 960, maximum 2720 x 1024 VGA connected 1440x900+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 408mm x 255mm 1440x900 59.9*+ 75.0

Re: Upgrading 7.1 to 7.3, use 7.2 as a safe step?

2011-02-25 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 25, 2011, at 1:39 PM, Nerius Landys wrote: > For me, time can be spared, but errors should be avoided at all costs. > I have upgraded FreeBSD before, for example 7.0 -> 7.1. I use the > buildworld/buildkernel procedure. > I now have a 7.1 system. Should I upgrade to 7.2 and then to 7.3, or

Upgrading 7.1 to 7.3, use 7.2 as a safe step?

2011-02-25 Thread Nerius Landys
For me, time can be spared, but errors should be avoided at all costs. I have upgraded FreeBSD before, for example 7.0 -> 7.1. I use the buildworld/buildkernel procedure. I now have a 7.1 system. Should I upgrade to 7.2 and then to 7.3, or is it safe to go directly from 7.1 to 7.3? - Nerius P.S

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:56:29AM -0800, Rob Farmer wrote: > > > > What could be the problems? > > >From the rc script (which would probably be better than starting it > >manually): > > # Note: > # svnserve bind per default at the ipv6 address! > # If you want svnserve binding at ipv4 address,

Re: qmail or postfix?

2011-02-25 Thread Andres Perera
On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:54 PM, Jarrod Slick wrote: > Dear Sir/Madam, > > Your email was unable reach the intended person that you were sending it to. > For more information on our business please click on the following link: > Click here for our website > We look forward to your continued busines

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 3:00 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:29 -0600, Greg Larkin > wrote: > >> I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN) before, but I wonder >> if it would help you by firing some data logging command (-e option) so

freebsd 8.2

2011-02-25 Thread Paul Macdonald
Just a quick applaud for both the people behind 7.4/8.2 and those behind freebsd-update which led to a seamless and quick upgrade on many of many boxes earlier. thanks to everyone involved, good job! Paul. -- - Paul Macdonald IFDNRG Ltd Web and video hosting -

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Kevin Wilcox
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 12:52, Mark Felder wrote: > The ones that crash are usually our main webservers (Apache, PHP, no MySQL > locally though). We have LOTS of IPs on them and they do a ton of network > traffic, but usually don't have a super high load average (maybe .75 - 1.0 > on a normal day

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Edwin L. Culp W.
2011/2/25 Robert Bonomi : > >> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:38:14 -0500 >> From: Jerry >> Subject: Re: HAL's demise >> >> GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the transition a >> couple of months back. Other distros are apparently not even distributing >> it. What is preventing FBSD

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Felder
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011 13:15:29 -0600, Greg Larkin wrote: I haven't used watchdogd(8) (http://bit.ly/eKHUEN) before, but I wonder if it would help you by firing some data logging command (-e option) so you have some information to go on. That actually looks like a great solution, but I current

Re: Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 12:52 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > Hi all, > > We have quite a few BSD VMs on our infrastructure and are having some > issues with our main webservers. They die randomly -- ESX shows > high/100% CPU the exact moment it dies (very, very low up u

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 February 2011 18:02, Andres Perera wrote: > On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Chris Rees wrote: >> On 25 February 2011 02:55, Andres Perera wrote: >>> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: I apologize for the grammaticall brokenness of that sentence. >>> >>> maybe you sh

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Robert Bonomi
> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:38:14 -0500 > From: Jerry > Subject: Re: HAL's demise > > GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the transition a > couple of months back. Other distros are apparently not even distributing > it. What is preventing FBSD from joining the party? HAL's

Help: Looking to contact someone running FreeBSD on ESX

2011-02-25 Thread Mark Felder
Hi all, We have quite a few BSD VMs on our infrastructure and are having some issues with our main webservers. They die randomly -- ESX shows high/100% CPU the exact moment it dies (very, very low up until that point), the console takes keyboard input but doesn't really do anything or switc

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-25 Thread Andres Perera
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 8:24 AM, Chris Rees wrote: > On 25 February 2011 02:55, Andres Perera wrote: >> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: >>> I apologize for the grammaticall brokenness of that sentence. >> >> maybe you should spam the hundreds of subscribers of this mailing li

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Rob Farmer
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 1:23 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'm learning how to set up svn server. > I've read through several sections of > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ > > Here's what I do: > > ZEEV> svnadmin create /home/mexas/zzz > ZEEV> svnlook info zzz > > 2011-02-25 09:15:28 +00

freebsd-update housekeeping?

2011-02-25 Thread Neil Long
Hi Just noticed how large /var/db/freebsd-update has grown on a box I just upgraded from 7.3 to 7.4 (but I can't recall when I started using it). Is there a recommended approach or just rm the directory if I have no need to roll it back? Thanks Neil

Re: Why FreeBSD fetch does not download a file via a proxy for HTTPS URLS (the same works fine for HTTP urls)

2011-02-25 Thread chandra reddy
Hi RW, Thanks alot for your reply. Do you mean to say "curl" also not using a CONNECT to tunnel through to the actual server? How can I achieve downloading files HTTPS over a proxy? Thanks <%20http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.os.freebsd.devel.hackers/42588> -Chandra > Hi All, > > I am workin

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:59:54AM -0500, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/25/11 9:32 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > [...] > > > > > > Many thanks for your help, Greg. > > > > However, following David Kelly's advice, > > I switched to svn+ssh, and t

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Warren Block
On Fri, 25 Feb 2011, Jerry wrote: GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the transition a couple of months back. Other distros are apparently not even distributing it. What is preventing FBSD from joining the party? Lack of a udev specification, for a start: http://lists.freebs

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 9:32 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: [...] > > > Many thanks for your help, Greg. > > However, following David Kelly's advice, > I switched to svn+ssh, and that seems > to work fine. Nevertheless, I'm curious > to find out why svnserve is n

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 07:09:04AM -0600, David Kelly wrote: > > On Feb 25, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > > When I try to connect to the svn server, I get this: > > > > ZEEV> svn co svn://localhost/home/mexas/zzz . > > svn: Can't connect to host 'localhost': Network is unreacha

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:23:03AM +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I'm learning how to set up svn server. > I've read through several sections of > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ > > Here's what I do: > > ZEEV> svnadmin create /home/mexas/zzz > ZEEV> svnlook info zzz > > 2011-02-25

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Feb 25, 2011 at 09:15:30AM -0500, Greg Larkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/25/11 4:23 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > > I'm learning how to set up svn server. > > I've read through several sections of > > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ > > > >

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/25/11 4:23 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > I'm learning how to set up svn server. > I've read through several sections of > http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ > > Here's what I do: > > ZEEV> svnadmin create /home/mexas/zzz > ZEEV> svnlook i

Re: Kernel compiling problems

2011-02-25 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Do not use a custom kern for your upgrade, build generic with pf and altq. I'm not sure your CPU type is correct ? I could be wrong, haven't used 32bits for a while. Make clean, then build the world, then your kern. Once you have generic working, make your custom kern --- Fleuriot Damien On 25

Re: Kernel compiling problems

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 February 2011 11:21, Redd Vinylene wrote: > Heya! > > Anybody know what's wrong with this? > > ## make buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF=NINJA > Have you successfully used NINJA to build a kernel before? Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mail

Re: setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread David Kelly
On Feb 25, 2011, at 3:23 AM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: > When I try to connect to the svn server, I get this: > > ZEEV> svn co svn://localhost/home/mexas/zzz . > svn: Can't connect to host 'localhost': Network is unreachable > ZEEV> svn co svn://10.10.10.14/home/mexas/zzz . > svn: Can't connect

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-25 Thread Chris Rees
On 25 February 2011 02:55, Andres Perera wrote: > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:54 PM, Chad Perrin wrote: >> I apologize for the grammaticall brokenness of that sentence. > > maybe you should spam the hundreds of subscribers of this mailing list with > this line: > > s,grammaticall,grammatical, > > >

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Robert Huff
Jerry writes: > GNOME switched over a year ago, KDE and XFCE finished the > transition a couple of months back. Other distros are apparently > not even distributing it. What is preventing FBSD from joining > the party? Lack of someone willing, able, and available to do the work.

Re: HAL's demise

2011-02-25 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:20:13 -0700 (MST) Warren Block articulated: > On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Edwin L. Culp W. wrote: > > > 2011/2/24 Warren Block : > >> On Thu, 24 Feb 2011, Jerry wrote: > >> > >>> Is FreeBSD now "HAL" free or is it still a requirement? I still > >>> have it activated via "/etc/rc.

Re: Tuning routing table size in FreeBSD 8.0 and 7.2

2011-02-25 Thread Valentin Bud
On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 9:37 PM, nikitha wrote: > Thank you all, for your timely reply.. > To answer Niko's question: Just i'm doing some performance/stress testing > of > a freebsd router.. :-) > > -Sumi > > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:11 PM, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: > > > On 2/24/2011 4:51 PM,

Kernel compiling problems

2011-02-25 Thread Redd Vinylene
Heya! Anybody know what's wrong with this? ## make buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF=NINJA cc -c -O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing -std=c99 -Wall -Wredundant-decls -Wnested-externs -Wstrict-prototypes -Wmissing-prototypes -Wpointer-arith -Winline -Wcast-qual -Wundef -Wno-pointer-sign -fformat-ext

GELI reliability

2011-02-25 Thread Terje Elde
Hi, I'm curious about GELIs theoretical behavior when faced with errors, and also any experience anyone might have. As an example, if I run ZFS with raidz over X drives, then the zpool should have no issue surviving the complete loss of a full disk. Also, the familiar "FAILURE - READ_DMA" or

Re: Strange behavior of MTU on loopback interfaces.

2011-02-25 Thread c0re
2011/2/25 Nikos Vassiliadis : > On 2/25/2011 9:29 AM, c0re wrote: >> >> Hello all! >> >> I'm testing setting lower MTU on loopback interfaces to avoid some MTU >> problems with IPSEC in a path of traffic. >> >> ifconfig lo1 create >> ifconfig lo1 mtu 1300 >> ifconfig lo1 5.5.5.5/32 >> >> # ifconfig

Re: Strange behavior of MTU on loopback interfaces.

2011-02-25 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 2/25/2011 9:29 AM, c0re wrote: Hello all! I'm testing setting lower MTU on loopback interfaces to avoid some MTU problems with IPSEC in a path of traffic. ifconfig lo1 create ifconfig lo1 mtu 1300 ifconfig lo1 5.5.5.5/32 # ifconfig lo1 lo1: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 1300 inet 5.5.5.

Re: Backtick versus $()

2011-02-25 Thread perryh
Thorsten Glaser wrote: > tcsh is not a shell ... > http://www.faqs.org/faqs/unix-faq/shell/csh-whynot/ If you are _that_ strongly opposed to (t)csh, sir, I submit that you are wasting your time reading and posting to a FreeBSD mailing list. ___ freebsd

setting up svn server - Connection refused

2011-02-25 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
I'm learning how to set up svn server. I've read through several sections of http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ Here's what I do: ZEEV> svnadmin create /home/mexas/zzz ZEEV> svnlook info zzz 2011-02-25 09:15:28 + (Fri, 25 Feb 2011) 0 ZEEV> svnserve -d ZEEV> ps ax | grep svnserve 66952

How can I disable Internet access for programs running in Wine?

2011-02-25 Thread erikmccaskey64
I just can find any solution... Please help! thanks.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

X-Authentication-Warning (FreeBSD 8.1 STABLE)

2011-02-25 Thread Andy Wodfer
Hi, A client is sending out a newsletter and I'm trying to set the FreeBSD server user (www) to be trusted so that I don't get this warning in the message header: X-Authentication-Warning: host.domain.net: www set sender to post@domain.netusing -f I assume this is to be set in the sendmail.cf fil