Journaling for a flaky FreeBSD VirtualBox guest.

2013-02-27 Thread Alan Gutierrez
I'm getting to know FreeBSD by running a 64-bit FreeBSD guest in a VirtualBox machine on my OS X Mountain Lion laptop. On occasion, when waking up from sleep, the FreeBSD virtual machine will not restart. VirtualBox marks it as "Aborted." When I restart FreeBSD, I've found on a number of occasions

Re: connect to a network printer to be able to print

2013-02-27 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 11:44-0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Trond Endrestøl > wrote: > > On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:45-0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > > > >> Dear folks, > >> > >> I am trying to connect a network printer to be able to print to it. I > >> know the make

Re: Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-27 Thread Ben Cottrell
On Feb 27, 2013, at 19:08, "Joseph A. Nagy, Jr" wrote: > If we can skip the finger wagging on that part I'd appreciate it. No finger-wagging from this quarter at least! Something I've sometimes done to retrieve text content is to run a "strings" on the disk device (the thing in /dev). You obviou

Fat Fingered An 'rm -rf' of Important Files

2013-02-27 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr
Okay, I know I should pay more attention to what I'm doing, and having separate partitions isn't an excuse for regular backups. If we can skip the finger wagging on that part I'd appreciate it. Here is what happened. I was mounting a thumb drive and I was wanting to 'rm -rf' what was on it (it

Re: Performance Related Question

2013-02-27 Thread Joshua Isom
On 2/27/2013 4:53 PM, Michael Ross wrote: On a multi-CPU machine using an SMP configured kernel, try values between 6 and 10 and see how they speed things up. But you also do need to consider memory usage. On the areas of buildworld that are CPU intensive, they can also be memory intens

Re: Performance Related Question

2013-02-27 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Frederico Costa wrote: On 2013-02-27 22:27, Michael Ross wrote: If I read you right, you didn't ``make -jX buildworld'', with X being the number of processes to spawn, so you used just one core on either machine. Buildworld does a lot of I/O, so disk speed is relevant. Y

Re: Performance Related Question

2013-02-27 Thread Michael Ross
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:38:34 +0100, Frederico Costa wrote: On 2013-02-27 22:27, Michael Ross wrote: If I read you right, you didn't ``make -jX buildworld'', with X being the number of processes to spawn, so you used just one core on either machine. Buildworld does a lot of I/O, so disk spee

Re: Performance Related Question

2013-02-27 Thread Frederico Costa
On 2013-02-27 22:27, Michael Ross wrote: If I read you right, you didn't ``make -jX buildworld'', with X being the number of processes to spawn, so you used just one core on either machine. Buildworld does a lot of I/O, so disk speed is relevant. Yes, i just made "make buildworld". So i shoul

Re: Performance Related Question

2013-02-27 Thread Michael Ross
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 23:05:44 +0100, Frederico Costa wrote: Hi everyone... I have a kind of interesting question when comes to performance of FreeBSD in different HW. i am not trying to come up with a scientific reason for measuring performance. :-) It is just a curiosity, and of course to s

Performance Related Question

2013-02-27 Thread Frederico Costa
Hi everyone... I have a kind of interesting question when comes to performance of FreeBSD in different HW. i am not trying to come up with a scientific reason for measuring performance. :-) It is just a curiosity, and of course to see if i understand it and improve performance of my systems. i

RE: Jail question

2013-02-27 Thread dteske
Got it... (script inline below) The first (and only) argument is to be a path to a 4.11 jail's root directory. For example, if you take a FreeBSD-4 box and rsync it to "/usr/jails/myold4box" on a FreeBSD-8 machine, you should then execute: update411binaries.sh /usr/jails/myold4box Then just conf

Re: connect to a network printer to be able to print

2013-02-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:47 PM, Warren Block wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> Dear folks, >> >> I am trying to connect a network printer to be able to print to it. I >> know the make/model of the printer: >> HP Color LaserJet CP4520 >> and the ip address it is on >> 10

Re: connect to a network printer to be able to print

2013-02-27 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013, Antonio Olivares wrote: Dear folks, I am trying to connect a network printer to be able to print to it. I know the make/model of the printer: HP Color LaserJet CP4520 and the ip address it is on 10.155.135.3 I want to use lpd/lpr to be able to print as is specified in htt

Re: connect to a network printer to be able to print

2013-02-27 Thread Antonio Olivares
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Trond Endrestøl wrote: > On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:45-0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > >> Dear folks, >> >> I am trying to connect a network printer to be able to print to it. I >> know the make/model of the printer: >> HP Color LaserJet CP4520 >> and the ip address

Re: how to disable bluetooth

2013-02-27 Thread CeDeROM
hey hey :-) its not that i dont want the bluetooth at all, just want to shut it down when its supposed to be shut down :-) bluetooth stack is always functional and my device is always visible even if i disable all bluetooth services, this seems insecure a bit huh. :-) -- CeDeROM, SQ7MHZ, http://w

Re: connect to a network printer to be able to print

2013-02-27 Thread Trond Endrestøl
On Wed, 27 Feb 2013 10:45-0600, Antonio Olivares wrote: > Dear folks, > > I am trying to connect a network printer to be able to print to it. I > know the make/model of the printer: > HP Color LaserJet CP4520 > and the ip address it is on > 10.155.135.3 > > I want to use lpd/lpr to be able to p

Boot hangs on ZOTAC ZBOX (Via Nano X2)

2013-02-27 Thread G
Hi, I've got a ZOTAC ZBOX nano VD01 (http://www.zotacusa.com/zbox-nano-vd01.html). The boot process (9.1-RELEASE, amd64) hangs after "Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec". I tried with ACPI off, but it crashes. Here's a pic with "Verbose" turned on: http://i.imgur.com/DQJkmoV.jpg I've found this

Re: how to disable bluetooth

2013-02-27 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 25 Feb 2013 14:56:46 +0100, CeDeROM wrote: > hey, how can i disable bluetooth in freebsd (9.1)? Kill it with fire! ;-) > my device is visible to other devices whethever i switch the radio button, > also the radio button seems to be the only waynto disable my computer from > being visibl

Re: svn.freebsd.org over https fails

2013-02-27 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 26/2/2013 4:27 πμ, Shane Ambler wrote: On 26/02/2013 08:39, Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: Hi, Since a few weeks connecting to svn.freebsd.org over https fails. Is this deliberate? It used to work... Thanks in advance, Nikos Not sure about it working before but I don't see svn.freebsd.org respo

Re: Jail question

2013-02-27 Thread Bernt Hansson
2013-02-26 15:18, Teske, Devin skrev: Yes, this is possible. When I get into work, I'll share with you the recipe Please do share with us. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u