Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On 23/09/2011, at 11:39, Fbsd8 wrote: > I have installed 9.0 bata2 from cd and the net. In both cases after the > completion of the install and rebooting, the bsdinstall scripts still remain > on the new installed system. If I interpret the code logic correctly, > bsdinstall can ONLY be used fo

RE: much to my surprise.... [ now trending #OT ]

2011-09-22 Thread Matt Emmerton
>> >> *Finally*, i saw that my telco router was displaying "INT" in red >> >> LED's. i didn't know they displayed in any other color but the >> >> default green, but after power-cycling, voila! back to green. >> >> and now, yes, i can ping freebsd.org. and i'm pretty sure other >> >> network t

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 09:43:00PM -0400, Daniel Staal wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 21:43:00 -0400 > From: Daniel Staal > Subject: Re: much to my surprise > To: Gary Kline , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Mac OS X) > > --As of September 22, 2011 6:31:19 PM -0700,

Re: 9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-22 Thread Adrian Chadd
On 23 September 2011 10:09, Fbsd8 wrote: > I have installed 9.0 bata2 from cd and the net. In both cases after the > completion of the install and rebooting, the bsdinstall scripts still remain > on the new installed system. If I interpret the code logic correctly, > bsdinstall can ONLY be used fo

9.0 bsdinstall usage

2011-09-22 Thread Fbsd8
I have installed 9.0 bata2 from cd and the net. In both cases after the completion of the install and rebooting, the bsdinstall scripts still remain on the new installed system. If I interpret the code logic correctly, bsdinstall can ONLY be used for an original install. It's not intended by de

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of September 22, 2011 6:31:19 PM -0700, Gary Kline is alleged to have said: i'm to the point where letting somebody else handle the dns-and-outward side sounds better by the day. i'v got more question if you care to answer them. i've been using gkg.net for

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:28:50PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 16:28:50 -0500 > From: Ryan Coleman > Subject: Re: much to my surprise > To: Robert Bonomi > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, kl...@thought.org > X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1244.3) > > > On Sep 22, 2011, a

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 04:28:50PM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > > > On Sep 22, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 14:30:49 > >> 2011 Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:54 -0700 From: Gary Kline > >> To: FreeBSD Mailing List > >> Cc: Subj

Support for "Brother" products

2011-09-22 Thread Carmel
I just got a reply back from a representative from Brother International. I had inquired about the available of device drivers for FreeBSD for their products. They currently fully support Windows, Linux and Debian. He informed me himself that he is a *nix user and understands my concerns. However,

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Sep 22, 2011, at 3:14 PM, Robert Bonomi wrote: >> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 14:30:49 2011 >> Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:54 -0700 >> From: Gary Kline >> To: FreeBSD Mailing List >> Cc: >> Subject: much to my surprise >> >> >> guys, >> >> well, after a forc

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 03:14:50PM -0500, Robert Bonomi wrote: > > From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 14:30:49 2011 > > Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:54 -0700 > > From: Gary Kline > > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > > Cc: > > Subject: much to my surprise > > > > > > guys, > > >

Re: load average with multi-core CPU's

2011-09-22 Thread Rodrigo Gonzalez
On 09/22/2011 04:29 PM, Mark Felder wrote: On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M wrote: Hi all, Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the load average on top/uptime is actually displaying? Load average is "average number of processes in the run queue" for

Re: load average with multi-core CPU's

2011-09-22 Thread Henry M
Thanks- That's what I thought it was. I'm trying to settle an argument at work : ) On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 3:29 PM, Mark Felder wrote: > On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M wrote: > > Hi all, >> >> Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the load >> average

Re: much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Robert Bonomi
> From owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org Thu Sep 22 14:30:49 2011 > Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2011 12:30:54 -0700 > From: Gary Kline > To: FreeBSD Mailing List > Cc: > Subject: much to my surprise > > > guys, > > well, after a forced, unexpected, and emergency 5 days away, i got > back to my desk

much to my surprise....

2011-09-22 Thread Gary Kline
guys, well, after a forced, unexpected, and emergency 5 days away, i got back to my desk and could not ping. while mail seemed to be working, and my *local* ping worked---I could ping around from my freebsd server to my other computers--i spent 3+ hours trying to ping various sites. Zero. i t

Re: load average with multi-core CPU's

2011-09-22 Thread Mark Felder
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:22:43 -0500, Henry M wrote: Hi all, Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the load average on top/uptime is actually displaying? Load average is "average number of processes in the run queue" for the 1, 5, and 15 minute intervals. If yo

Re: command to eject cd

2011-09-22 Thread Vasile Cristescu
Hello, try something like: cdcontrol -f /dev/acd0 eject or cdcontrol -f /dev/cd0 eject -- Best Regards, Vasile Cristescu On Thursday 22 September 2011 17:32:14 Fbsd8 wrote: > Is there a console command to cause the cd/dvd device to open its drawer? >

load average with multi-core CPU's

2011-09-22 Thread Henry M
Hi all, Can someone explain, or point me to correct documentation on what the load average on top/uptime is actually displaying? Is the load the average amount of processes waiting to execute on the server, or is it independent of CPU? Am I correct with the below statements? * Example 1: 1 CPU,

Re: command to eject cd

2011-09-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011 10:32:14 -0400, Fbsd8 wrote: > Is there a console command to cause the cd/dvd device to open its drawer? There is "camcontrol eject" (or "camcontrol -f eject" which uses the ATAPICAM subsystem; see "man camcontrol" for details. In ports, I remember there is also a port called

Re: command to eject cd

2011-09-22 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello. 2011/09/22 10:32:14 -0400 Fbsd8 => To FreeBSD Questions : F> Is there a console command to cause the cd/dvd device to open its drawer? echo -ne "e\nq\n" | cdcontrol -- Peter Vereshagin (http://vereshagin.org) pgp: A0E26627 ___ freebsd-questi

Re: command to eject cd

2011-09-22 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Sep 22), Fbsd8 said: > Is there a console command to cause the cd/dvd device to open its drawer? "cdcontrol eject" should work if you only have one device. You can specify which device to send the eject request to with the -f flag. -- Dan Nelson dnel...@alla

Re: command to eject cd

2011-09-22 Thread Mike Tancsa
On 9/22/2011 10:32 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: > Is there a console command to cause the cd/dvd device to open its drawer? you mean other than cdcontrol ? ---Mike -- --- Mike Tancsa, tel +1 519 651 3400 Sentex Communications, m...@sentex.net Providing Internet services since 1994

9.0 and burncd error

2011-09-22 Thread Fbsd8
It seems that in 9.0 the cd/dvd/drive is now given a dev name of cd0 where in all previous releases it was acd0. Tried to use the burncd command in 9.0 and get this error msg burncd: ioctl(CDRIOCGETBLOCKSIZE): Inappropriate ioctl for device Looks to me like maybe the burncd command needs to be

command to eject cd

2011-09-22 Thread Fbsd8
Is there a console command to cause the cd/dvd device to open its drawer? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.o

Re: Dynamic Window Manager install with patch(es)

2011-09-22 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 22 Sep 2011, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 22/09/2011 11:21, Andy Zammy wrote: File to patch: files/patch-defaultopacity No file found--skip this patch? [n] n File to patch: /usr/home/user/Downloads/dwm.defaultopacity.patch patch: malformed patch at line 9: @@ -52,6 +54,9 @@ => Patch pa

Re: Dynamic Window Manager install with patch(es)

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/09/2011 11:21, Andy Zammy wrote: > File to patch: files/patch-defaultopacity > No file found--skip this patch? [n] n > File to patch: /usr/home/user/Downloads/dwm.defaultopacity.patch > patch: malformed patch at line 9: @@ -52,6 +54,9 @@ > => Patch patch-defaultopacity failed to apply cl

Re: Dynamic Window Manager install with patch(es)

2011-09-22 Thread Andy Zammy
I see, then in that case I don't think I'm doing anything wrong. Here is the output of make: # make You can build dwm with your own config.h using the DWM_CONF knob: make DWM_CONF=/path/to/dwm/config.h install clean Note: Pre-5.6 config.h

Re: Dynamic Window Manager install with patch(es)

2011-09-22 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 22/09/2011 00:51, Andy Zammy wrote: > According to the instructions listed here: http://dwm.suckless.org/patches/ I > figured I'm to use the "tarball method" as that's how ports fetches dwm. I > tried applying the method to /usr/ports/x11-wm/dwm/work/dwm-5.9 but it > didn't work (malformed patch