Re: kldload vs Statically compiled in kernel

ages to doing it this way. > You get to spend more time with your computer...? ;) No advantage I'm aware of unless you're also removing unnecessary modules then you'd be saving a little disk space and memory. -- Adam Vande More ___

Re: cdrecord errors messages

/creating-cds.html The answer lies within that page. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: /etc/rc.conf and NFS

t > boot, and I have to do this manually? When /usr/local is hosted locally > these services start up fine on their own at boot time. > What does /var/log/messages say? May be that /usr/local isn't available when scripts are called. -- Adam Vande More __

Re: Info on DOS mitigation, kernel configuration for DOS mitigation

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Bogdan Webb wrote: > i've already searched the freebsd's mailing > lists and found some mitigation techniques, to bad that google ain't that > familiar with FreeBSD, and searchin' for guides is a pain... > http://www.goo

Re: problems w/ touching all files?

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 10:21 AM, Richard DeLaurell < richard.delaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 1:46 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> >> >> On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Richard DeLaurell < >> richard.delaur...@gmail.com>

Re: Severe instabilities and system lockups

lem your usage, not freebsd in particular. If your swap is being accessed frequently in any OS you should expect a serious performance hit. If that is the case you should investigate reducing memory usage/adding more in. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: problems w/ touching all files?

would solve this problem WITHOUT > creating any new ones? > > If it would, what might those new complications be? > > As I say, it is not mission-critical at this point, but it would be helpful > to fix this. > > Thanks for any help. > maybe try a portnsnap fe

Re: can't ping localhost

d: [127.0.0.1]: No > route to host > # > > > many thanks > anton > > -- > Anton Shterenlikht > If you run CURRENT, you would do well to follow the mailing list. http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.current/browse_thread/thread/2ab13c4b31228c88/15da

Re: "tao" suddenly died

he amount of machines you run. To me, it would make more sense to standardize on something like cpu, so that you could run one as a build system/package repository. I know that settling on one vendor generally means you only need one source for warranty work, but with stickers on cases and onli

Re: How can I repair wrong /etc/rc.conf ?

do this, easiest is to type in at the sh prompt: mount -a You would then have access to /usr, vi is in /usr/bin/vi -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: gnome install: stuck

, you need to authenticate with the system then you'll be logged into the desktop. Also, it's just Alt-F9 to return to the graphical display, ctrl not needed there. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

cy information available to portupgrade to know this. portupgrade simply doesn't act on it. However, as I already informed Mr. Schwartz, portmaster -P does work. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Martin McCormick < > mar...@dc.cis.okstate.edu> wrote: > >> Adam Vande More writes: >> > This seems to be similar to the depenguinator. >> >> > Maybe there so

Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Martin McCormick wrote: > Adam Vande More writes: > > This seems to be similar to the depenguinator. > > > Maybe there some approach in there to get you over the hump. > > It is exactly the right idea. Funny thing, I actually did turn >

Re: Remote Building of FreeBSD

llwater, OK > This seems to be similar to the depenguinator. http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2008-01-29-depenguinator-2.0.html Maybe there some approach in there to get you over the hump. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

> > It completes by installing 5.8. I'd like to prevent that. > > I'd like the entire portage system to consider 5.8 to be dead, both > for building from ports, and for installing packages that say they > depend on that. > > How do I get there? > > Can yo

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > >>>>> "Adam" == Adam Vande More writes: > > Adam> See /usr/ports/UPDATING and /etc/make.conf > > Doesn't help. Packages that are compiled against 5.8 still want > to install 5.8. &g

Re: how do I tell ports that perl5.8 should never be installed?

ports system that perl5.8 should *never* be used, and > rather > than install a package that needs it, I can fall back to a port build? > > I'm using portsnap to update things, so I don't think i can just delete the > 5.8 port, because it will likely just get reinstalled. >

Re: Where can I find port configuration options?

you problems is somethine like this: make config but for long term you should read man ports and at least the ports section in the handbook. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: kde4/python26 and pth help.

On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 10:47 PM, Jimmie James wrote: > On 02/24/10 23:28, Adam Vande More wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Jimmie James >> <mailto:jimmie...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>>On a freshly installed 8-STABL

Re: kde4/python26 and pth help.

s for you error, I don't know what happened. I used to see those happen on a massive upgrade when using portupgrade. I recommend portmaster. Somehow python didn't get installed correctly because /usr/local/include/python2.6/Python.h should exist if python is correctly installed. -- A

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

ve to run portsnap fetch update (assuming you've run a portsnap extract earlier) freebsd-update will do you no go here. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questi

Re: Sysinstall Post-install System Management

] > > Using Filezilla I ftp'd in and tried to retrieve it manually but > > ftp.freebsd.org/usr/ports/distfiles/flashplugin/ is an empty directory > > Anybody have this port in their local distfiles that I could download? > Better yet, update your ports tree and install the

Re: Options for redundant storage cluster?

/ggatec + heartbeat is sort of roughly equivalent of DRBD and heartbeat. I think many of us are waiting for HAST though. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-announce/2009-October/001279.html -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: Mouse not working on virtual box VM

ysical host to have mouse support. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/install-post.html http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/x-config.html -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Unable to build kdelibs3

that's the good one. Also I posted a script a few days ago that will create a backup of all currently installed packages. Useful in a situation like yours so you could revert to known good set of pkg's until you have time to deal with the full upgrade. -- Adam Vande More ___

Re: Unable to build kdelibs3

ectory `/usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3/work/kdelibs-3.5.10' > gmake: *** [all] Error 2 > *** Error code 1 > > Stop in /usr/ports/x11/kdelibs3. > I hope you find a better solution, but mine was to pkg_delete * and rebuild. -- Adam Vande More __

Re: netcat (/usr/bin/nc) buffer size too small - alternate utilities?

x27;t really want to use my Java > program because starting up a JVM for each server query is very > expensive. Any ideas of any other tools like netcat that will enable > me to receive UDP packets up to 9216 bytes in size? > You can try raising OS's UDP buff size: sysctl kern.

Re: Perl upgrade problem...

; > which generated the error given. > > > Peter Harrison. > i see, my port tree was out of date, sorry. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: Perl upgrade problem...

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:07 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Matthew Seaman < > m.sea...@black-earth.co.uk> wrote: > >> >> Err... he's following the right instructions. >> > > ports/UPDATING does not recommend to upgrade. &

Re: Perl upgrade problem...

On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:03 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > Err... he's following the right instructions. > ports/UPDATING does not recommend to upgrade. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: Perl upgrade problem...

running 5.10 and if you have no need for that then do nothing further. If you really believe you need to run 5.10 then you should follow the complete instructions from the entry. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: More on strange 8.0 issues

have boot FreeBSD if I had installed grub? Yes grub can boot freebsd. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: PASSWORD LOST!!

d to remotely manage their > systems in ways that could be used to compromise them is foolishness! > > Regardless of the purity of his intention, Eric is asking us to > tell him how to break into our homes or steal our cars. ;) > Security through obscur

Re: python script to backup installed packages

that might be useful is for it to automatically create an install script for the backed up packages which takes into account dependencies. Almost have a package management system like some other unnamed OS's then. ;) -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-q

python script to backup installed packages

age in packages: s = Popen('pkg_create -b ' + package,shell=True,stdout=PIPE).communicate()[0] -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: xorgconfig missing FBD_8

all something else this is 2010 fer cryin' out load... Linux > doesn't have this problem. > > thanks for making freebsd a pain in the ass, > > Gary > > Reading the documentation to hard for you? -- Adam Vande More

Re: Need help troubleshooting NIC

he 2950 from an Ubuntu live CD and the NIC worked, so i > don't think it's a hardware issue. > > Is there a way I can rebuild the driver without having to rebuild the > kernel? > What does netstat -r show? -- Adam Vande More ___

Re: Problem building GCC - Postfix install from ports failed

missing a dependency for some reason. Try installing that port, and resume your gcc build. If it works you could file a bug report. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: Updating packages in Jails

ms of having a hypervisor, as it is dependent the system calls coming from a jail being the same calls that are present in the host kernel. Mismatched kernel version could break that mapping. Which is also why jails are a faster form of virtualization because

Re: Updating packages in Jails

install it into the base as well as each individual jail so everything is consistent. Also check out /usr/ports/sysutils/ezjail -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: FreeBSD's UFS vs Ext4

member hearing they hoped for it to be ready as an option for 9.0, although my memory may not be correct on that. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: autogen gcc makefile.def error Postfix 2.5.6

rying to built a port without being root. That isn't going to work, you need appropriate permissions. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:07 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:56 AM, Mike Clarke > wrote: > >> Is it just me or is the flash plugin still not fully functional? I'm >> running Firefox 3.5.7 with linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r42 on >> 8.0-RELEAS

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

don't work, but all the standard ones like youtube, pbs, bbc all work perfectly for me. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: this may be impossible: iis there a way to play streams on our firefox?

my desktop. > /usr/ports/www/linux-f10-flashplugin10 -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: adding disk moves ad0 to ad4

t > care what it comes out as, as long as it stays put... Since I have > the only fbsd system at work, I tend to format alot of funky drives > for people, and it gets anoying having to swap fstab's every time... > > Steve > Use

Re: mysql silently failing to start - suggestions?

y this a really application agnostic. 1. edit the config file to increase verbosity. 2. start the binary from the commandline, don't run the start-up scripts as they sometimes mask errors. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: gjournal on compact flash

nsure exactly what you mean by user intervention. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: UDP flooding / Ethernet issues? WAS Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

I just did a: 'tcpdump -n | grep -i udp' and saw a bunch > of these, coming up a couple of times per second: > promiscuous mode entries are caused by tcpdump -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: named "error sending response: not enough free resources"

gt; I would guess no, but that guess could easily be wrong. Have you tried turning up the logging to verbosity to get a better idea of what's happening? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: gjournal on compact flash

The big drawback to soft updates is the fsck times after an unclean shutdown which really shouldn't be an issue on a 500MB drive. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: How do you manage your jails?

tarctica.no/stuff/UNIX/FreeBSD/jails/ you'll find what I use. > > I'm preparing a talk for BLUG (the local Linux/BSD group) and I want to > know how > YOU manage your jails, there sure are more than one way do it. > you should che

Re: Opteron 1212 w/ 4 GB RAM

8.0, amd64 if there's chance you'll ever put more ram in the system. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: Raw sockets in jails

/freebsd-j...@freebsd.org/msg00978.html -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: ISO simple non-forking TCP connection forward/balance tool

#x27;t also need to be a > router? > > Thanks very much for your help. > > A few lines in python should do what you're looking for, see socket lib, twisted if you have high performance needs. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: /etc/hosts.deniedssh

-245.static.adinet.com.uy > Looks like your conf could use some love. Why are you resolving ip's? Thresholds can be lowered. Are you syncing with remote list? -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: fsck failed to sync inodes

age the data? > > Thanks in Advance > > Run it again, fsck can require multiple runs to fix the issues. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscri

Re: Intel PRO/Wireless 2100 ipw WPA

on FreeBSD 7.2, maybe this infomation > regarding ipw is correct after all: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/8.0TODO#head-637d4dd09847005583f360ebb430cf32b64a4d8b > Yeah I think it was mentioned in one of the beta announcements, but can't seem to find it now. Anyways, my laptop is stuc

Re: 7.2-RELEASE-p5 and kernel panic with mpt driver

urrent than RELENG_X_Y. Trust the docs unless you explicitly know differently. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: This could be a wild goose chase but ...

> mencoder -ovc copy -oac mp3lame -idx -o movie.avi movie.mpg > ffmpeg2theora --sync --aspect 24:10 --croptop 72, --cropbottom 72 \ > -v 7 -c 2 movie.avi > > File sizes, to give you an idea: > > movie.mpg 6500 MiB > movie.avi

Re: Openoffice3 and aspell

On Sat, Jan 2, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Gary Kline wrote: > On Fri, Jan 01, 2010 at 08:00:28PM -0800, Neil Short wrote: > > > > > > --- On Fri, 1/1/10, Adam Vande More wrote: > > > > > From: Adam Vande More > > > Subject: Re: Openoffice3 and aspell > >

Re: Virtualbox and bridged interface.

On Fri, Jan 1, 2010 at 5:58 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Le Fri, 1 Jan 2010 17:36:30 -0600, > Adam Vande More a écrit : > > > > Is there someone able to make VirtualBox working with a bridged > > > interface? > > > > > > I've got : > &g

Re: Openoffice3 and aspell

e spider bloated up larger than life. "So it could > get away." > There is an OO plugin you need to install for this functionality. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/f

Re: Virtualbox and bridged interface.

the guest is doing > some ARP requests to get the mac address of the gateway. But there is no > reply. > > No firewall, net.inet.ip_forwarding=1 (not sure if this is mandatory) > > Any idea? > > Thanks! Regards. > Bridged networking doesn't work on wireless interfaces.

Re: Blocking a slow-burning SSH bruteforce

the ip's are recycled through eventually and you can configure the parameters for blocking. Denyhosts also has the ability to download to, and upload from a shared blocklist. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: What port contains libxcb.so.2, and hoow could I figure this out?

t, what is the correct tool? > > Thanks. > > it# pkg_info -W /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2 /usr/local/lib/libxcb.so.2 was installed by package libxcb-1.5 -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

h > easily repairable is quite unstable on my systems anyway! That's actually a bit disconcerting, do you have hardware instability? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinf

Re: New user - small file server questions and quick GUI question

ou. Solaris can't help you with that either, ZFS is hungry. ZFS is also not "standard", but considered production ready. UFS is still the standard, and the only filesystem supported by the installer without resorting to tricks. All the other services work well on FreeBSD. -- Ad

Re: Packages vs Ports

ver a week. How long does it usually take > for packages to catch up to ports? > > P.S. I'm using FreeBSD 7.2 on an old Gateway Pentium III machine with a 40G > harddrive. > > Also as a temp work around you could create a file backed swap. Even slower, but it would work. You

Re: Packages vs Ports

ou can easily create your own with make package or pkg_create but that requires a successful recompile -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: kernel panic on SATA drive

mory: 243 MB >> Dumping 58 MB:unknown: timeout waiting to issue command >> unknown: error issuing WRITE_DMA command >> >> >> ** DUMP FAILED (ERROR 5) ** >> Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press any key on the console to abort >&g

Re: ld-elf related problems

mand '@co' (package tools > out of date?) > I'd give it a shot. Did you upgrade this machine? It looks like you may not have recompiled ports against new kernel. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: ld-elf related problems

y coredump, but then start again. > > Does anyone have any insights? > Thanks. > > Have you installed /usr/ports/misc/compat7x ? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

abs. > > My child like flash games too, and I went with a vbox install as flash10 periodically dumps and hangs when running some of the more exotic flash games. I've seen the same thing happen on linux, but not as much on windows. Java plugin works great very stable but

Re: How do I create large partitions in FreeBSD?

t FreeBSD although I admit I haven't tried such an endeavor. Is there some other gotcha? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Gnome desktop for 5 y/o

get a reasonable experience with flash, you'll need to upgrade to 8(freebsd update) add in packages compiled for 8(don't forget the libusb stuff) then install flash-10 However if you're only goal is run flash stuff, this is probably not the

Re: Upgrade problem 6.1 -> 6.4

boot. > > I am unclear as to your goal. Seems like you want 8.0 but reference building 6.2 source. Why is that? -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: Xorg - no mouse and no keyboard

_dpms is called with mode 0. (II) NOUVEAU(0): NV50DacSetPowerMode is called with mode 0. (II) NOUVEAU(0): NV50SorSetPowerMode is called with mode 0. (II) NOUVEAU(0): nv50_crtc_dpms is called with mode 1 for CRTC0. (II) NOUVEAU(0): nv50_crtc_dpms is called with mode 1 for CRTC1. (II) NOUVEAU(0):

Re: Hardware migration and upgrade from 6.3 to 8.0 advice

t; > You may want to consider installing from scratch and migrating over. This would allow you setup zfs and make the move easier. Also may want to explore run ahci(4) as that can seriously increase disk speed although I believe many more improvements live in STABLE, not RELEASE. -- Adam Vande

Re: Newbie questions (updating, ports, etc.)

fig, read UPDATING, and start the compile you should generally be done. However sometimes things break either during the compile or later in use. Sometimes resolving those eat up time and backup package can be of help there. If you update less frequently eg monthly, be prepared for longer upgrade t

Re: FreeBSD 8.0 retires into itself

on't > use the motherboard NICs. > > You may want to try using a different NIC in place of the onboard and see > if the problem persists. The is a thread on STABLE discussing a problem with certian em chipsets... em interface slow down

Re: What's up with gnome-terminal?

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 9:17 PM, Rem P Roberti wrote: > On 2009.12.01 20:57:03 +0000, Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Rem P Roberti > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I use portmaster, but you can use a host of u

Re: What's up with gnome-terminal?

error message when I try to > run gnome-terminal. Frustrating. > > Rem > You actually probably want to do an upwards recursive recompile. portupgrade -Rf You may also reference this page which I think details how to completely remove gnome and start fresh. -- Adam Vande More _

Re: What's up with gnome-terminal?

alling, checking for lost/broken depends, etc. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: VirtualBox: No network connectivity. Weird vboxnetflt.ko/vboxnetadp.ko behaviour

above, it > works > great. When I deviate, I sometimes have trouble. > > Cheers, > > Yeah I assume the issue is vboxnetflt.ko needs eth device to be loaded to actually bind to. I do this with /etc/crontab to work around: @reboot root/sbin/

Re: diskless problem: Lookup of /dev for devfs, error: 13

however. > > Anyone have any suggestions on what to check? > > Thanks, > > I think you were following the same aged howto I was. Whatever config file /stand/sysinstall and friends is located in needs to be edited and have those references removed. That's about as far as I g

Re: Loader does not load after reinstall with previous mirrored disk attached

order but something like deactivate stop clear. clear is last for sure because that will remove metadata. Remember to change fstab. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: Measuring disk I/O

re pushing a lot data, you need to be running scsi or ssd drives. It takes A LOT of striped sata drives to match the performance of a single good 15K scsi. if you're able to run ahci, that will help some as well. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: getting program.core, where and how?

is missing write permissions there. > > Thanks, > > -Harry > > procstat -f -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: Do permissions take time to take effect?

t; > Regards, > > James Phillips > > PS: the first time, I made the mistake of adding whitespace in /etc/group > (daily run checks this somehow) > Is a blank line required at the end of the file? > PPS: Tried adding blank line: no effect. > > Have you tried the handbo

Re: Wester Digital 'deep recovery cycle' and gstripe?

The more I > type this out, the more it's starting to sound like a bad idea.) > Thoughts, ideas? > -Modulok- > > In a stripe, if one goes it all goes. However I am not certain it's an issue in your case, the gstripe labeling mode with create a persistent config. If there's no

Re: no sshd on new server...

passwordless secure connection. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: Virtual box to do cross-browser testing

have fared > with this software. > > Any experience, much appreciated. > > -- John > > VirtualBox overall works great for me on both i386 and amd64, much faster than qemu. Just following http://wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox if you fun into problems. -- Adam Vande More

Re: Remote re-installation of current FreeBSD system.

BSD system from a linux system. I > searched some time, and it does not seem to be possible. > Finally, I used mfsBSD to install. I booted on a rescue disk (Linux), then, > I did : > dd if=mfsBSD.img | ssh remotehost dd of=/dev/sda > > Then, a reboot, and I accessed the system via ssh.

Re: stuff and even more problems.... [ to mostly the hard core ]

gg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823201029 I've had varied luck with adapters and since they're about the same price just as easy to keep a ps/2 around. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: Help understanding basic FreeBSD concepts (ports, updates, jails)

e. You shouldn't run anything else unless you're willing and able to help with testing, debugging, and development. -- Adam Vande More ___ 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"

Re: Help with CUPS reconfiguration

host:631, it gets connected, > but no combination of username password works. > root should work. > > How can I force cups to reconfigure? > > man cupsd.conf -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://list

Re: Rebuild instructions for amd64 systems

device adw # Advansys wide SCSI adapter > > This is unnecessary and bad. pae should be used on i386 for large memory support, amd64 in some ways exists so you don't have to run pae which is a considerable performance hit. I&#x

Re: 100.0% OT [almost]

tings.thought.org http://transfinite.thought.org >The 7.31a release of Jottings: http://jottings.thought.org/index.php > firefox firebug extension is the easiest method I have found of resolving this type of issue. -- Adam Vande More ___ fr

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