Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Adam Vande More
ute) is an enhanced version of such services. The definition is something of a moot point in this discussion as either setup is available for FreeBSD guests with multiple hosting providers. http://www.reliacloud.com/ and http://www.elastichosts.com/ are a couple examples of the more sophistica

Re: Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Adam Vande More
as much time solving problems in *BSD as they do > trying to defend an irrelevant OS ;) > We all wish a lot of things. One of mine would be that people shouldn't have strong opinions on subjects they know little to nothing about. -- Adam Vande More

Re: [freebsd-questions] Lennart Poettering: BSD Isn't Relevant Anymore

2011-07-18 Thread Adam Vande More
's power. You have to replace it with two Linux distributions, greatly expanding your management overhead. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Re: 2020: Will BSD and Linux be relevant anymore?

2011-07-20 Thread Adam Vande More
stop top posting? It's difficult to follow and violates list convention. Thanks, -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "

Re: virtualbox 4.0

2011-07-21 Thread Adam Vande More
D host, but the only stipulation was only one 64 bit VM could be run at a time. I didn't have any stability issues. This was in the early 3.X series and I haven't tried recently. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mai

Re: graid3 or graid5? with or without gjournal?

2011-07-26 Thread Adam Vande More
> when UFS went bananas due to one drive failing, I am looking at > solutions/preventatives. Will gjournal be useful? > Graid3 for several reasons. Works great with gjournal. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2007-May/002337.html You could also consider RAI

Re: How to get ip address automatically from different dhcp server

2011-07-26 Thread Adam Vande More
herwise, it won't get an IP automatically. > > My question is it's possible to get ip address automatically from different > dhcp server? thanks. > devd does this. See /etc/devd.conf -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@fre

Re: pkdgb and corrupted record(s)

2011-08-12 Thread Adam Vande More
n early, or perhaps some other abnormal termination. IIRC, some improvements have been done for this problem as it's been quite awhile since I've seen it personally, but your mileage may vary. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: Don't understand df/du output

2011-08-12 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Aug 12, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Alain AUDEBERT aka 2A wrote: > Is it the 8% reserved by FFS ? > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#MANUFACTURER-DISK-SIZE -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Adam Vande More
driver, and I've never had major issue from one installed from ports: /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver -- 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: System lockups in X with nVidia GeForce 7600 GS (G73) and Gtk+

2011-08-13 Thread Adam Vande More
KAIK, so it might be better to revisit that port when support is added to the kernel. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-18 Thread Adam Vande More
er > softupdates? > There are some positives and negatives to it. It's importance is decreasing in FreeBSD 9 as SU+J will be possible. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: How much memory does ZFS use?

2011-08-20 Thread Adam Vande More
nce does it make if it's a kernel module or not in terms of memory usage? Either way, set the appropriate tunable to control memory usage and you're done. vfs.zfs.arc_max="2048M" -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.or

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Adam Vande More
o driver reveal the absurdity of these vagaries. Finally, review the op's email address which is the final nail in troll coffin if it wasn't neutrino-proof already. The only logical conclusion that can deduced from such behavior is this a a more devolved form of the BSD is dying troll. -

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-20 Thread Adam Vande More
> In your supposed deep thought of freebsd-update's capabilities, can you explain why you view a custom kernel as killing an advantage? I suspect when we actually delve into the technical details we will have an answer to Michael's question, and you may not like the flavor of t

Re: A quality operating system

2011-08-21 Thread Adam Vande More
;t. This is incorrect. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/2008-August/003674.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: Firefox consistently inconsistent in the playing of videos

2011-08-21 Thread Adam Vande More
h has been a bit more unstable lately especially on youtube after a period of time where it was relatively error free. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: to come from Linux to FreeBSD

2011-08-24 Thread Adam Vande More
eatures not available when using FreeBSD as the host OS e.g. hi speed usb, not sure if the pci-passthrough works with 4 on FreeBSD. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: glabel, gmirror, and gpart

2011-08-26 Thread Adam Vande More
http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&sl=auto&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fbu7cher.blogspot.com%2F2011%2F03%2Ffreebsd-gmirror-gpt-ufs.html&act=url is the best I can do. -- Adam Vande More __

Re: glabel, gmirror, and gpart

2011-08-26 Thread Adam Vande More
tally destroying something. While we're on the topic of desired gmirror changes I'd like an easier method to "right-size" a mirror so that mirroring similar sized hard drives from different manufacturers doesn't create an Uff Da when the number of bytes isn't consistent

Re: Identifying disk activity

2011-08-27 Thread Adam Vande More
> down _which_ program is accessing _which_ file, causing > the sound? > "top -Hm io " has revealed pesky apps in the past for me without using mount options. IIRC, you have to use procstat to find if something is using swap. -- Adam Vande More _

Re: Turn off hyperthreading on dual core Atom?

2011-08-29 Thread Adam Vande More
; You can achieve definitive answers by timing several build runs of each setting and using ministat. -- 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: "at" command and mail

2011-09-03 Thread Adam Vande More
tion file that makes it optional and possibly sets other > defaults for at(8)? > If you redirect the output from the command to /dev/null or other file, you shouldn't recieve an email unless you've also specified -m. -- Adam Vande More ___ fre

Re: "at" command and mail

2011-09-03 Thread Adam Vande More
> it'd be convenient to be able to keep the output from each run. > That's easy, just put a timestamp in the filename: echo foo > `date +\%Y\%m\%d`.txt -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.

Re: "at" command and mail

2011-09-03 Thread Adam Vande More
actions you want. Regular old /bin/sh scripting is a worthwhile skill: Something quick: #!/bin/sh OUTPUT=$(your/app) if [ -e /usr/sbin/sendmail ]; then echo $OUTPUT | mail -s "Subject" $USER else echo $OUTPUT > ${USER}_`date +\%Y\%m\%d`.log fi -- Adam Vande More

Re: Routing Woes

2011-09-03 Thread Adam Vande More
have the default > route go over the wifi connection. Is there a route i can add that will fix > my problem? > I believe you'll want to use fib's eg setfib(1) and assign your torrent client to use the fib associated with your wifi. -- Adam Vande More __

Re: Evolution problems...

2011-09-05 Thread Adam Vande More
least two entries in /usr/ports/UPDATING which you should follow. -- 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: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-11 Thread Adam Vande More
due to space considerations. > My experience with this is limited, but good. It's been sometime since I've used this setup, but I recall the FreeBSD was actually PCBSD and for it to work correctly I have to have them KVM switched to it when X was start

Re: KVM switch with FreeBSD-8.2

2011-09-11 Thread Adam Vande More
> What I said is that the KVM, in my case, had to be set to the FreeBSD system when X was started for the KVM/FreeBSD system interaction to be correct. That's a much different circumstance that X has to be loaded first which is something I did not say. -- Adam Vande More

Re: How to check where space is LOST

2011-09-11 Thread Adam Vande More
d1s1e124M 40K114M 0%/tmp > /dev/ad1s1f1.8G1.1G596M65%/usr > /dev/ad1s1d989M 98M891M12%/var > devfs 1.0K1.0K 0B 100%/var/named/dev > > How to obtain what take space on /var &

Re: Re[2]: How to check where space is LOST

2011-09-11 Thread Adam Vande More
2 r > > >>> root snmpd 89483 /var 47171 -rw--- 282447082 w > > That is FD #3, how to find what file is that? > find /var -inum 47171 -ls -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing lis

Re: Re[4]: How to check where space is LOST

2011-09-12 Thread Adam Vande More
> root cron 20455 wd /var 47105 drwxr-x--- 512 r > > ... > > > # find /var -inum 47141 -ls > You find the inode number with fstat then use find to translate it to a filename. It works fine here, if it doesn't work for you perhaps you have a user error

Re: Re[4]: How to check where space is LOST

2011-09-12 Thread Adam Vande More
2011/9/12 Adam Vande More > 2011/9/12 Коньков Евгений > >> # fstat -f /var >> >> USER CMD PID FD MOUNT INUM MODE SZ|DV R/W >> >> root snmpd 205453 /var 47141 -rw--- 37217152 w >> >> root

Re: how to make devfs show fdisk updates?

2011-09-12 Thread Adam Vande More
s on the device > which contains the root filesystem, so kern.geom.debugflags=16 is necessary > to perform the fdisk.) > Please advise on how to effect the creation of the device node(s) in a > non-disruptive fashion. > You can force a GEOM retaste by issuing a "true &g

Re: Negative ping times with FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE on older Celeron system

2011-09-12 Thread Adam Vande More
.conf? > it's a runtime tunable so /etc/sysctl.conf and the "sysctl -a kern.timecounter" doesn't need a "-a" -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freeb

Re: Overwrite bsd tar

2011-09-23 Thread Adam Vande More
ling list expectations. As for your problem, perhaps you should learn the ports system to see how other packages with this dependency are dealt with instead of trying to do a a very poor hack that will result in further problems. -- Adam Vande More __

Re: Overwrite bsd tar

2011-09-23 Thread Adam Vande More
he "XY Problem" and http://www.lemis.com/questions.html is always something a newbie should understand. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, s

Re: libgcrypt SHA256 mismatch?

2011-09-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Kurt Buff wrote: > In the Makefile I see the line > > MASTER_SITES= ${MASTER_SITE_GNUPG} > > which I'd bet controls how it finds what sites to visit, but don't > know anything beyond that. > > Maybe RANDOMIZE_MASTER_SITE

Re: New FreeBSD User | HP Doesn't Boot

2011-10-08 Thread Adam Vande More
-black-screen Then I might look for BIOS updates to fix the problem. Teseting BIOS to defaults would be something I would try, followed by unplugging unnecessary peripherals. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lis

Re: Freebsd, Virtual OSs and GUI

2011-10-12 Thread Adam Vande More
The hardware you mention likely doesn't have VT-d, and probably has VT-x which is perfectly fine, because to my knowledge you can't use VT-d with VirtualBox yet anyways. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://li

Re: bsdtar --gname switch

2011-10-16 Thread Adam Vande More
dn't. I suggest filing a PR and contacting the CURRENT 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: Upgrading from 6.2-RELEASE?

2011-10-19 Thread Adam Vande More
d of sorce for 7.0-RELEASE, compiling that, and then an > freebsd-update to 7.4? > You're probably best off to go 6.2 -> 6_3 then do your freebsd-update stuff. I don't think the upgrading from CD works -- at least I've heard some horror stories. -- Adam Vande More

Re: video acceleration on vbox

2011-10-24 Thread Adam Vande More
g the driver > from nvidia) I am using x11/nvidia-driver under xfce4 on the FB side You have to install the guest additions for windows. It used to be better to boot the guest into safe mode to install them. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questio

Re: nice man pages?

2011-10-25 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 8:20 PM, Patrick Lamaiziere wrote: > Hello, > > I use sysutils/most to have nice manual pages in color, that's cool but > is there a way to do this with the base system (ie without adding port)? > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Man_Pa

Re: Why some flash sites don't work?

2011-11-01 Thread Adam Vande More
me. flashplayer 11 hit ports today, you could try removing 10, installing 11 and seeing if that helps you at all. -- 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: Why some flash sites don't work?

2011-11-01 Thread Adam Vande More
h the player. > That is not the case here. The whole thing plays flawlessly and I see no advertisement. I do run flashblock, perhaps that has an effect on the outcome. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.free

Re: Why some flash sites don't work?

2011-11-02 Thread Adam Vande More
you try creating a new user, and under that user install flash per the handbook. That should at least tell if it's some local user settings causing the issue. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fre

Re: Make buildworld don't run

2011-11-02 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Zantgo wrote: > I write "make buildworld", this is the answer: > > #make buildworld > make: don't know how to make buildworld. Stop > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/handbook/makeworld.html -- Adam Vande More _

Re: Why some flash sites don't work?

2011-11-02 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Yuri wrote: > On 11/02/2011 11:42, Adam Vande More wrote: > > Can you try creating a new user, and under that user install flash per the > handbook. That should at least tell if it's some local user settings > causing the issue. > > &g

Re: Why some flash sites don't work?

2011-11-02 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 5:10 PM, Yuri wrote: > On 11/02/2011 14:19, Adam Vande More wrote: > > It comes from the rest of the instructions section, namely > "nspluginwrapper -v -a -i". > > > Sorry I missed this one. > > Now, after this is done and ~/.mozilla/p

Re: Why some flash sites don't work?

2011-11-02 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 6:14 PM, Yuri wrote: > Workaround for only one by changing the user, and the other one just > doesn't work for any user. > > You seem to have a terrible habit of skipping all the important details. --

Re: Check Memory Usage, program like 'free' in Linux

2011-11-03 Thread Adam Vande More
what memory pressure a system is under then my answer would be to track the percent of swap used. Free memory is a useful utility on Windows XP, not so much on FreeBSD. So to answer your question in another way, there is a reason "free" doesn't exist on FreeBSD. It's not

Re: smartmontools

2011-11-03 Thread Adam Vande More
eed to setup something else in the smartd.conf or is something wrong > with my HD, please? > That's not your HD complaining, it's your CD drive. It's probably just complaining about SMART inquiries to it which aren't supported. Some way to exclude scanning th

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

2011-11-07 Thread Adam Vande More
mount point ( /tmp /usr /var ) > chflags -R noschg / > rm -rf //* > This is terrible advice. There are proper methods for finding what's using the space and to recover it. You should use them. -- Adam Vande More ___ freeb

Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get it

2011-11-07 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Michael Sierchio wrote: > On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Adam Vande More > wrote: > > > This is terrible advice. There are proper methods for finding what's > using > > the space and to recover it. You should use them. >

Re: FreeBSD idea

2011-11-07 Thread Adam Vande More
ly direct to me, I haven't found how to get on the mailing list, > or decided if I should. > http://wiki.freebsd.org/FreeBSD/mips http://www.freebsd.org/platforms/mips.html You might have better luck with freebsd-hackers@ or freebsd-mips@ -- Adam Vande More

Re: How do you rebuild wpa_supplicant?

2011-11-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 1:07 AM, John R. Levine wrote: > Surely there is some way to rebuild just part of the tree. I know there > used to be. > Doesn't this work for you? cd /usr/src/usr.sbin/wpa make install ;) -- Adam Vande More _

Re: Webmail for local system mail

2011-11-18 Thread Adam Vande More
emails without having to > forward them to an actual mailbox > somewhere.___ > sysutils/webmin will work without much configuration. Some of the other more traditional one like squirrelmail will work as well, but some extra config may

Re: reexec socketpair: No buffer space available

2011-11-22 Thread Adam Vande More
aising the limits would be the correct course of action. Or do you have some deeper problem which limit raising would only mask or temporarily alleviate the issue. -- 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: Diagnosing packet loss

2011-11-22 Thread Adam Vande More
96.169.166 netmask 255.255.255.255" > > That broadcast address and netmask look wrong for sure. > > Should I just change that to 255.255.255.248 as well? > No, that is correct. Leave your alias alone if you want it to continue to work. -- Adam Vande More _

Re: too many open files

2011-11-27 Thread Adam Vande More
;5 ... but then goes up again.) >How do I figure out what is doing this? Looking at the process > list (appended) I see no obvious candidates. > > fstat(1) -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.f

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Adam Vande More
out any issues. - The > current setup is the same except for the fact that am running Jails and am > on a 64bit platform. > Properly configured, syslogd will log remotely. However something like sysutils/rsyslog may fit your requirements better. -- Adam Vande More

Re: Alternative to syslogd that actually writes external logs to files?

2011-11-28 Thread Adam Vande More
ding to receiving host/port via telnet? -- 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: kern.timecounter.hardware change on the fly

2011-11-29 Thread Adam Vande More
or ACPI-fast? > I don't know of any reason it would be unsafe to switch. There have been conflicting reports vs the speed of HPET and ACPI-fast probably at least in part due to hardware differences. You should test each if performance is a concern for you. -- Adam Vande More ___

Re: Free BSD Website Question

2011-12-01 Thread Adam Vande More
g on that list are right on the 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: Installing an older version of a port

2011-12-01 Thread Adam Vande More
gt; My system is 8.1-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE-p1 #1: Sun Mar 13 08:45:42 > EST 2011 /usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MEDIA amd64. I have portupgrade and updated > to the latest ports (apparently that is the problem- although I've only > been fiddling with

OCR Form tools

2011-12-08 Thread Adam Vande More
I have thousands of forms equivalent to invoices that I'd like to put into a database. I'm thinking I would like to have some OCR app/tool scan these forms, and then generate a CSV with each field. Does anyone have recommendations on software for this? -- Adam

Re: freebsd is really bsd?

2011-12-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Dec 13, 2011 at 8:46 AM, LinuxIsOne wrote: > hi, > > Is freebsd simply bsd name, means it is free so they appended the word > 'free' is it like this? > /usr/src/share/misc/bsd-family-tree -- Adam Vande More ___ free

Re: Free memory exhausted by networking

2011-12-13 Thread Adam Vande More
ission on FreeBSD. Are you sure they have been resolved? https://forum.transmissionbt.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11687 -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsub

Re: FreeBSD 8 LiveFS - How To Start SSHD?

2011-12-24 Thread Adam Vande More
m to apply and really doesn't make sense. > > Bottom line is that after running /mnt2/use/sbin/sshd, I can see the > process in ps output. However when I attempt to connect to sshd as root, > my connection is immediately closed. > ssh -vv -- Adam Vande More _

Re: Same version on binary packages and updated ports

2011-12-29 Thread Adam Vande More
page which explain all this in detail. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports-using.html -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscr

Re: ISC-DHCP Web GUIs?

2012-01-05 Thread Adam Vande More
s, > etc. > I used to use sysutils/webmin for that. Not sure anymore what all features it has on DHCP, but if nothing else you can use it to edit config files from a browser. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http

Re: X libraries missing

2012-01-27 Thread Adam Vande More
/portupgrade20120128-**26744-6ymwm0-0 env UPGRADE_TOOL=portupgrade > UPGRADE_PORT=audacious-**plugins-2.5.4_2 UPGRADE_PORT_VER=2.5.4_2 make > DEPENDS_TARGET=package > ** Fix the problem and try again. > > But I have xorg libraries installed, xorg-libraries-7.5.1 > /usr/ports/x11

Re: Possible move back to FreeBSD

2012-02-02 Thread Adam Vande More
nctional. /usr/ports/UPDATING is still the standard method along with a ports managment tool of your choice eg portmaster(1). -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-qu

Re: Restaging from scratch

2013-04-03 Thread Adam Vande More
se the installer to partition and install the OS. Instructions are in the handbook as always. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: How to get kernel source code of free-BSD release 9.1

2013-05-19 Thread Adam Vande More
al Machine already > created as my case now? fetch ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/9.1-RELEASE/src.txz -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions T

Re: FreeBSD, VBox, mouse integration

2013-05-21 Thread Adam Vande More
//wiki.freebsd.org/VirtualBox#Installing_Guest_Additions_for_FreeBSD_guests -- 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: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-26 Thread Adam Vande More
fact the basically the point of TRIM. And SSD's typically use the best form of wear leveling and it's usually advisable to leave a bit of the drive unpartitioned/unused to ensure the wear leveling works optimally. -- Adam Vande More __

Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-26 Thread Adam Vande More
#x27;t appropriate. Certain other SSD's are not subject to these guidelines at all. -- 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: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-29 Thread Adam Vande More
p, in the kernel. -- 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: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-29 Thread Adam Vande More
uously something like ZeusRAM may be required. There are probably other solutions available as well as other 3rd party ones. If you are swapping a lot, the best case is usually to add RAM. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list htt

Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-29 Thread Adam Vande More
PS -- Moderating questions@ is just awful. I'm disappointed. On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:34 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Warren Block wrote: >> And you don't think the presence of TRIM--where the SSD can actually know >> which blocks

Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-29 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 2:52 PM, jb wrote: > Well, Linux utilizes swap space as part of virtual memory. As does every other Unix. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Should I move to amd64 ?

2013-05-30 Thread Adam Vande More
t; To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" -- 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: mount_smbfs in base?

2013-05-31 Thread Adam Vande More
is recentish than what is in base? Yes. > I 'guess' samba was GPL, is it OK to let live GPL s/w in base when such > strides are being attempted to oust GCC? mount_smbfs isn't GPL. -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: setup journaling for root partition

2013-06-03 Thread Adam Vande More
on that. Haven't tried. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/161674 -- 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: System Calls that do DNS

2013-06-04 Thread Adam Vande More
On Tue, Jun 4, 2013 at 12:21 AM, Doug Hardie wrote: > Unfortunately truss does not show anything more than ktrace. Normally most people use truss first, then fall back to ktrace ;) > Bind doesn't check the hosts files as far as I can tell. System requests obey nsswitch.conf(5) --

Re: buildworld selectively?

2013-06-10 Thread Adam Vande More
kernel, most builds could be cut to a small fraction of what default is. For example, WITHOUT_CLANG alone save a lot of time. However to get a complete targeted build takes a good deal of effort. Usually only makes sense for mass deployments IME. -- Adam Vande More _

Re: 9.1-RELEASE slow boot

2013-06-11 Thread Adam Vande More
changed. > > Any ideas? > > Thanks in advance. Try setting hw.usb.no_boot_wait=1 -- 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: installing a kernel under a custom location, not /boot/kernel?

2013-06-17 Thread Adam Vande More
talled, not > just the current and the previous. How to achive this? > KODIR=/boot/testkernel -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any ma

Re: install firefox without X

2013-06-18 Thread Adam Vande More
ess system try to forward X11 apps. There is a reason you have to type "ssh -X" -- 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: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-26 Thread Adam Vande More
also at least mildly concerning and indicates the drives are in a preliminary stage of death. Some HD deaths take years to complete. Expect random glitches and intermittent reduced performance as a continuous degradation. You might be able to alleviate some of this by switching to the AHCI driv

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-27 Thread Adam Vande More
backups before I broke the mirror and did 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: Upgrading from 8.0 to 8.4 with freebsd-update?

2013-06-27 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Patrick wrote: > Is it possible to skip point releases using freebsd-update so that I > can go from 8.0 to 8.4 Yes. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.4R/relnotes-detailed.html#upgrade -- Adam Vand

Re: Troubleshooting a gmirror disk marked broken

2013-06-28 Thread Adam Vande More
e the case. There may be some sysctl which can alter ata settings that might help like stuff under kern.geom.mirror. It's already been a long time since I've used 8.x so I don't remember everything. Just have to dig around. -- Adam Vande More __

Re: Possibly OT: NFS vs SMB performance

2013-07-06 Thread Adam Vande More
pect some performance penalty when using SMB, but: > "find /nfs_mounted_dir >/dev/null" takes more or less 1 minute; > "find /smb_mounted_dir >/dev/null" takes nearly 10 minutes. > > Is this normal in your experience? > http://lists.freebsd.

Re: does journaling cause DMA-WRITE failure?

2013-07-18 Thread Adam Vande More
ints are really appreciated. > SAM > ___ > 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" > -- Adam V

Re: Installation hangs during "Archive extraction" phase (9.1)

2013-07-26 Thread Adam Vande More
e hardware diagnosis - everything OK. > > Any ideas on how to track this one down? > Don't install ports during installation, try using 8.4 or 9.1BETA1 instead -- 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: Tablet PCs and FreeBSD?

2013-08-05 Thread Adam Vande More
s w.r.t. models? > All I can recall was this thread(read whole thing): http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2012-November/246404.html -- Adam Vande More ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman

Re: Tablet PCs and FreeBSD?

2013-08-05 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:05 PM, Adam Vande More wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 1:44 PM, cpghost wrote: > >> Hello list, >> >> what's the status of FreeBSD/arm w.r.t. Tablet PCs? >> Is there ANY tablet out there that managed to at >> least boot FreeB

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