Re: SV: Re: Possibly OT: NFS vs SMB performance

2013-07-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/06/13 19:51, Leslie Jensen wrote: Smb is slow by design compared to nfs. Sure. As I said, I was expecting lower performance; not *this* lower, however. bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Possibly OT: NFS vs SMB performance

2013-07-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/07/13 00:52, Adam Vande More wrote: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2013-January/038903.html Thanks Adam. However: I'm using UFS, not ZFS, so the first part is not applicable. I have an nfe card, not an em; so again, the second part does not apply. The only tunable

Re: Possibly OT: NFS vs SMB performance

2013-07-06 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/05/13 20:42, Terje Elde wrote: On 5. juli 2013, at 18:18, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Is this normal in your experience? Did you do them in that order, or did you do the smb (slow) one first? If the slow was first, I'm thinking caching on the server could be a major

Possibly OT: NFS vs SMB performance

2013-07-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Sorry to ask here: maybe it's not the best place, but it might be a start (the client and server are both FreeBSD). The server exports the same directory via NFS and via SMB. I'd expect some performance penalty when using SMB, but: find /nfs_mounted_dir /dev/null takes more or less 1

Stop SMTP attack with pam_abl

2013-06-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I have different sendmail based servers deployed and all of them are, more or less frequently, subject to dictionary attacks. So I looked for some solution to stop them and stumbled upon pam_abl. However it does not seem to do its job; in the logs I have: pam_abl[2398]:

Re: openvpn and tap device

2013-05-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 05/29/13 09:36, Arthur Chance wrote: It's a while since I looked at OpenVPN, so this is from unreliable memory, but IIRC it uses tap devices under Windows and tun devices under Unix(ish) OSes. It can use tun OR tap device on both Unix(ish) (and IIRC the same holds for Windows). Do

Re: FreeBSD 8.1 install on Intel Romley platform

2013-03-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 03/20/13 12:44, belle_...@wiwynn.com wrote: We are facing a problem to install FreeBSD8.1 8.1 is not supported anymore; I don't think you'll get much help. our Firewall application only work on FreeBSD 8.1 and 8.3. 8.3 is still supported, so I'd move on to that one. SAS HDD could

Re: USB host controllers on a server that does not use USB devices?

2013-03-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 03/20/13 14:59, ill...@gmail.com wrote: Probably not on a server, but there are some built-in devices in some notebooks (webcam bluetooth) that are run through a usb bus. It happened to me to see an internal USB tape drive, connected to an USB port on the motherboard. bye av.

Re: Old releases support

2013-03-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 03/02/13 19:32, Remko Lodder wrote: I just removed 7.4/7-STABLE from the list and moved it to the 'unsupported' section. Thanks for mentioning this! Thanks to you! Although I'm fine (I know what I asked for :-), I'll point out another little thing: 7.4 is still listed as legacy in the

Old releases support

2013-03-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Just a quick question on EOL dates. According to http://www.freebsd.org/security/security.html#sup, 7.4R support should have ended two days ago. Did it? Is Feb 28 2013 date confirmed? Next, 9.0 should reach EOL at the end of this month. Is this confirmed too? bye Thanks av.

Re: Software raid VS hardware raid

2013-01-30 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 01/28/13 21:43, Artem Kuchin wrote: I am planning to use mirror configuration of two SATA 7200rpm 2TB disks. I personally vote for gmirror in this case; I've used it a lot and found it very good wrt to both performance and robustness. You can spend the extra money you spare on the

Kernel crash

2013-01-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Anyone can make sense of this: # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.11 GNU gdb 6.1.1 [FreeBSD] Copyright 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain

Re: SMS application

2012-12-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 12/07/12 09:08, Boris Samorodov wrote: As for me I use comms/gammu as an sms-tool. There's also smstools, which should be similar. (Assuming SMS=Short Message Service and what the OP wants is simply send/receive). bye av. ___

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-30 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/30/12 15:40, Thomas Mueller wrote: On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Bill Tillman btillma...@yahoo.com wrote: i386 will not see anything above 4 GB Actually you *can* give access to 4Gb RAM for your system: PAE allows you to use 36 bits instead of 32 to address your memory (and

Re: i386 vs amd64

2012-11-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/28/12 18:49, Warren Block wrote: On Wed, 28 Nov 2012, mike miskulin wrote: About to build a replacement system for an older i386 setup. A few years ago I had tried the amd64 port on it and found it was frustrating as things that just worked on i386 did not on amd64. IIRC ports were

[SOLVED] Re: Chesar

2012-10-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/08/12 12:43, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 09/22/12 17:43, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I'm using tomcat-6.0.35 and openjdk6-b24_4, if that helps. I'll try openjdk either with tomcat6 or 7. Hi Michale. I finally got around trying openjdk, but that didn't work either. I also tried within

Re: Chesar

2012-10-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/22/12 17:43, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I'm using tomcat-6.0.35 and openjdk6-b24_4, if that helps. I'll try openjdk either with tomcat6 or 7. Hi Michale. I finally got around trying openjdk, but that didn't work either. I also tried within a jail (which I created from scratch), just

Chesar

2012-09-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm trying to deploy this: http://chesar.echa.europa.eu/ I'm using tomcat7 (but tried tomcat6) and JDK 1.6 (that's the only allowed version). When I start Tomcat, I get: Sep 22, 2012 11:36:05 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart SEVERE: Exception sending context

Re: Chesar

2012-09-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/22/12 17:04, Michael Sierchio wrote: On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 4:39 AM, Andrea Venturoli m...@netfence.it wrote: Hello. I'm trying to deploy this: http://chesar.echa.europa.eu/ I'm using tomcat7 (but tried tomcat6) and JDK 1.6 (that's the only allowed version). It actually took some

Re: sendmail + clamav + spamassasin config help

2012-08-14 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 08/14/12 08:51, AN wrote: FreeBSD mail.neu.net 9.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE #2 r239243: Mon Aug 13 19:20:19 EDT 2012 r...@mail.neu.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 I am trying to configure sendmail + clamav + spamassasin. The problem I have is that neither clamav or

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 10:40, Andrea Venturoli wrote: On 06/25/12 09:53, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey there, I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI

Re: portupgrade -- is there a way to only build and update ports that actually NEED it?

2012-06-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 09:53, Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote: Hey there, I'm presently in the process of trying to do a portupgrade from rt-3.8.8 to 3.8.13. By all estimations, this is a minor bump. Already, I've encountered several annoyances due to ABI changes, such as the libtool2.4 fun. With

Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 02:58, Mike Jeays wrote: I am amazed anyone still has a working Zip drive! I have a SCSI one and I'm using it to backup some data (can't even remember how old that is, 10 years probably, but never had any glitches). I also have a couple of customers still using two or three

[OT] Re: Omega Zip Drives on FreeBSD 8.*

2012-06-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/25/12 04:58, Thomas Mueller wrote: Zip 100 drive, and also SyQuest SyJet drive, got to where they would just eject the disk a few seconds after insertion. I hope I'm remembering this correctly (this happened probably ten years ago or so): I had an internal Zip drive which showed this

Re: Best practices about Jails

2012-04-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 04/04/12 16:06, Fbsd8 wrote: This is overkill. I single ports tree on the host is fine. Matter of fact I use packages for everything accept for php which I have to compile in apache module. I even pre-install all of php's dependents as packages before doing make install on the php port. As

Fast question abount EDITOR

2012-04-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. This might be a stupid question... however... %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw setenv: Too many arguments. %setenv EDITOR emacs -nw %crontab -e crontab: emacs -nw: No such file or directory crontab: emacs -nw exited with status 1 Is there a way I can easily achieve the above? Do I really

Best practices about Jails

2012-04-04 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Plase forgive the long post and the amount of questions, but I'm new to jails and I'd like to be sure of what I'm doing before deploying more than a test one. Right now I need to run a commercial Java app, which, ideally, I would forbid to access files outside its directory. This might

Re: Monitor directory and execute script

2011-11-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/07/11 16:29, Frank Brendel wrote: || I think sysutils/wait_on is what you are looking for. Thanks, that's exactly it! bye av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: ATA trouble again

2011-11-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/16/11 13:13, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: or do you know if the drives are using 4096 bytes Per sector? How do I find out without physical access to the box? The only way to be sure is to look at the datasheet for the drive. If the drives are SMART capable, you can always load

ATA trouble again

2011-11-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. This is a follow-up of a previous thread, which can be found here: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-July/232257.html I finally have two working WD Green drives: they have run severel times for more than a few days continuosly and I've run their full diags a

Re: ATA trouble again

2011-11-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/16/11 12:23, Pegasus Mc Cleaft wrote: Are you using ZFS? No. I'm using gstripe. or do you know if the drives are using 4096 bytes Per sector? How do I find out without physical access to the box? bye Thanks av. ___

How to persist tape configuration

2011-11-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I need to set my tape with: mt comp off. After a reboot I need to do this again. I could write a script and place it in /usr/local/etc/rc.d, but I'm just wondering if there's already something standard in /etc. bye Thanks av. ___

Monitor directory and execute script

2011-11-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I need to check for new or updated files in a directory and execute a script on them whenever that happens. Before I launch on complicated scripting, is there some utility/port/deamon that already does this? bye Thanks av. ___

Re: Monitor directory and execute script

2011-11-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/07/11 15:26, Warren Block wrote: On Mon, 7 Nov 2011, Andrea Venturoli wrote: I need to check for new or updated files in a directory and execute a script on them whenever that happens. Before I launch on complicated scripting, is there some utility/port/deamon that already does

Re: Thunderbird 6.0.2/7.0: Crashing when using with OpenLDAP backend

2011-09-29 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/28/11 14:29, O. Hartmann wrote: I run in a problem on FreeBSD 9.0-BETA3/10.0-CURRENT using OpenLDAP (Cyrus SASL2 aktivated) and OpenLDAP backend (most recent client and server). Thunderbird 6.0.2 and 7.0 coredumps with signal 11. I hadn't any chance to check whether this also happens on

Re: Help with crash dump

2011-09-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/09/11 14:26, Bernt Hansson wrote: You have run out of swapspace, based on these 2 lines panic: ffs_write: dir write current process = 0 (swapper) Hmmm... Cacti woldn't think so: the graph about swap space is plain flat (round 0%, by the way); of course it could have risen so fast that

Help with crash dump

2011-09-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Anyone can give any hint on this? I really have no clue. bye Thanks av. # uname -a FreeBSD x..it 7.3-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 7.3-RELEASE-p4 #1: Wed Dec 15 11:53:13 CET 2010 r...@x..it:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/x i386 # kgdb kernel.debug

Re: upgrade of portupgrade to 2.4.9,2

2011-08-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 08/23/11 09:58, Stanislav Sedov wrote: On Sun, 21 Aug 2011 15:18:28 +0200 Andrea Venturolim...@netfence.it mentioned: On 08/21/11 08:26, n dhert wrote: I did a portupgrade on a freebsd 8.2-RELEASE of the portupgrade program itself portupgrade-2.4.8_1,2 needs updating (index has

Re: upgrade of portupgrade to 2.4.9,2

2011-08-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 08/23/11 11:11, Stanislav Sedov wrote: Are you sure you have the latest one (2.4.9.2_2,2). If not, you can grab it from here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/ports/ports-mgmt/portupgrade/ (the page has a small download as a tarball link at the bottom). You are right: I had just

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/25/11 02:45, Jerome Herman wrote: At the beginning of June, I installed two WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA Just a shot in the dark : are your drives of the green kind ? Such as Western Digital Caviar Green ? Exactly. I disabled the idle timer though. Also since they are ATA drives make

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/25/11 12:01, Jerome Herman wrote: Ok I must have been way more tired than I thought when I answered... :-) A few things though, WD Green have always been very problematic, in FreeBSD and elsewhere. I acknowledge that. However, I think I can live with some glitch, but what I'm

Re: ATA troubles

2011-07-25 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 07/25/11 16:03, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: I fixed a similar problem -- involving a VIA 6421 controller -- a while back, by using atacontrol(8) to reduce the DMA speed from UDMA133 to UDMA100. Evidently it is possible, under some circumstances, for a device and controller to negotiate a

ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello everyone. For those interested, this post is a sequel of: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/2011-06/msg00018.html However, I'll summarize. At the beginning of June, I installed two WD 1TB Caviar Green SATA drives into an Intel-S5000-based production

ATA troubles

2011-07-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
(Sorry for the previous post, I accidentally hit sent, while the messages was still unfinished). Hello everyone. For those interested, this post is a sequel of: http://www.mailinglistarchive.com/html/freebsd-questions%40freebsd.org/2011-06/msg00018.html However, I'll summarize. At the

Re: FreeBSD 64 Bit Applications

2011-07-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/30/11 10:06, John Dakos wrote: My questions is .is FreeBSD 64 Bit stable and Rock such as 32 bit ? Yes, go for it. These standard applications are working well on 64 bit or not ? Apache , Bind, Webmin , Mysql ,Postfix ,Dovecot, Spamassasin, PHP, Squid, PF I can personally

Re: Firefox 3 and 4 with NFS home directory

2011-06-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/20/11 21:55, Devin Teske wrote: I'm wondering if anyone has been able to test Firefox 4 on NFS $HOME. I had problems in the past with Firefox 3, but they are gone. Firefox 4 also works. Right now I'm using 8.1, but I don't remember if this was what solved. In any case, have you got

Re: Critical issues with WD green drives

2011-06-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/02/11 14:16, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. In a server of mine (7.3p4/i386) I replaced a 1TB Hitachi SATA drive (which worked perfectly), with two brand new Western Digital 2TB disks. Now I'm having critical problems, ranging from the disks getting stuck, to the box rebooting. Thanks

Critical issues with WD green drives

2011-06-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. In a server of mine (7.3p4/i386) I replaced a 1TB Hitachi SATA drive (which worked perfectly), with two brand new Western Digital 2TB disks. Now I'm having critical problems, ranging from the disks getting stuck, to the box rebooting. Those are not the main disks in the box, so they are

Re: Critical issues with WD green drives

2011-06-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/02/11 18:02, Reid Linnemann wrote: I've gotten similar errors before with a failing power supply. After an electrical storm I started getting HD errors all over the place. I replaced drives, futzed with SATA cables, booted, rebooted, and when the machine got stable finally I just tried to

Maximum partition size

2011-05-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Sorry for the stupid questions, but Google only turns out very old answers which might be outdated (at least I hope so). What is the maximum partition size I can use on 7.3? I've used a 3TB gstripe on amd64, but now I'd like to gstripe two 2TB HDs on a i386. Will that work? bye

umass troubles again

2011-02-20 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've a 4GB USB memory which is formatted as a single FAT32 partition. When I insert it, I get: root: Unknown USB device: vendor 0x1e3d product 0x2092 bus uhub5 kernel: ugen5.3: USB0911B at usbus5 kernel: umass1: USB0911B Flash Disk, class 0/0, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 3 on usbus5 kernel:

Mounting a recovered disk

2011-01-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm trying a rescue on a failing drive. I used ddrescue to get an image (which showed a single unreadable sector). # file myimage myimage: x86 boot sector, LInux i386 boot LOader; GRand Unified Bootloader, stage1 version 0x3, stage2 address 0x2000, stage2 segment 0x200; partition 1:

Re: Which php??

2011-01-10 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 01/10/11 22:21, Gary Kline wrote: Which php52 port do I need to run with wordpress? There are a slew of them po ports. tia. Never tried it myself, but... %cd /usr/ports/www/wordpress/ %make pretty-print-run-depends-list This port requires package(s) apache-2.2.17_1

Re: [Probably a bit OT] A question about mail systems

2011-01-08 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 01/08/11 13:26, Rolf Nielsen wrote: 1. Have fetchmail get the messages. 2. Have an MTA (is that the right name, I always confuse them) deliver them locally to a maildir. 3. Have either a POP3 or an IMAP server from which I can retrieve the messages to whichever client I choose. I'm using

Help with USB Card Reader

2010-11-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a hama branded USB 2.0 Card Reader 19 in 1, which I'd like to use with 8.1/i386. This thing has four slots, only one of which I'd like to populate with an SD card. However I've had no luck so far. If I insert the card and then plug the reader into an USB port, I get: root:

Re: Help with USB Card Reader

2010-11-27 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/27/10 14:42, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. I've got a hama branded USB 2.0 Card Reader 19 in 1, which I'd like to use with 8.1/i386. Sorry, my fault. It seems this reader cannot work with SDHCs; in fact it works with MMCs. bye av

USB modems for SMS

2010-11-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm in need of an USB modem, which I'll only use for sending and receiving via SMS and I'm looking for suggestions on which hardware to buy. In the past I've used some Digicom Wave (http://www.digicom.it/digisit/prodotti.nsf/itprodottiidx/UsbWaveGprs), through the FTDI driver;

Re: X resolution

2010-11-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/17/10 01:15, Warren Block wrote: It sounds like the EDID information isn't always working. Check your video cable to see if a pin is bent over, or try a different one. I guess it's working too much! :-D How does X know 2048x1536 is a valid resolution otherwise? Why would it override my

X resolution

2010-11-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've configured my X to use a 1600x1200 resolution (or so I thought...). It used to work until the last X.Org upgrade; after that it *usually* worked: very rarely it would start at 2048x1536, but a couple of Ctrl-Alt-Backspace was normally enough. Since a couple of day, it always

Re: FTP like web app

2010-11-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/18/10 21:45, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Hello. Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I'm looking for an app that should: _ replace an ftp server; _ have a web interface; _ run on FreeBSD; _ let one of my users upload some file and send a link to someone else; _ let that someone else download

Newer Sambas and PAM

2010-11-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'd like to have every service on my systems authenticating via Samba (through PAM). With older, now deprecated, 3.0.x version, I did this through security/pam_smb: no problems at all. Since 3.0 was removed, I tried upgrading to 3.4 on one box: since then I am not able to

Re: Newer Sambas and PAM

2010-11-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 11/01/10 12:49, Tim Daneliuk wrote: Be aware that the samba password directory moved from /usr/local/etc/samba to /usr/local/etc/samba34 Thanks, I know, but that's not the problem. pamsmbd doesn't read the password file directly; instead it asks smbd. I discovered it uses LanMan

Digicom Internet Key

2010-10-28 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've been asked to try to send SMs via a 3G Internet Key. I've not seen it personally, but it should be a Digicom 7.2 HSUPA. Here's what I get: # usbconfig ugen0.1: UHCI root HUB Intel at usbus0, cfg=0 md=HOST spd=FULL (12Mbps) pwr=ON ugen1.1: UHCI root HUB Intel at usbus1, cfg=0

FTP like web app

2010-10-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I'm looking for an app that should: _ replace an ftp server; _ have a web interface; _ run on FreeBSD; _ let one of my users upload some file and send a link to someone else; _ let that someone else download that file without seeing others' stuff; _ possibily

Re: FTP like web app

2010-10-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 10/18/10 22:04, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Oct 18, 2010, at 12:45 PM, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Sorry if this is a bit OT, but I'm looking for an app that should: _ replace an ftp server; _ have a web interface; _ run on FreeBSD; _ let one of my users upload some file and send a link to someone

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/23/10 11:04, Mike Clarke wrote: That's very similar to my experience too but I'm getting the feeling that I might have to move over to KDE4 before much longer due to reduced KDE3 support with some of the apps: Same here. I delayed trying KDE4 since my old box was too old; as soon as I

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/23/10 18:22, Adam Vande More wrote: If you tried on KDE 4.1, 4.2, then yes things have improved a lot. 4.3 was pretty big update in terms of stability, and 4.4 has been far more solid than not. I tried 4.5.1 on 8.1/i386 with every port updated, on a 4-core AMD CPU with a Radeon HD

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-24 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/23/10 10:46, Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Thursday, September 23, 2010 a las 09:36:03AM +0100, Frank Shute escribió: My belief is that people who are comfortable with Gnome/KDE are people who are familiar with working in a GUI such as Windows® and haven't come from the commandline.

Re: GUI Suggested?

2010-09-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 09/23/10 06:53, Adam Vande More wrote: As stated before, it's really a personal matter. I like kde4 a lot, ... It's also lighter and faster than KDE3. It's pretty stable too, but not completely so. Strange. After years of KDE3 I tried KDE4 and switched back in half a day. I found it

Linux DRI (and Google Earth)

2010-09-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. What's the status of 3d hardware acceleration in Linux emulation? I'm running 8.1R/i386 and I was finally able to get DRI working (with native software) on my Radeon HD 4200. So I installe Google Earth, but it's warning that it will use software rendering and is, of course, slow.

AMD SMBus

2010-09-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Any chance of enabling this? (Google was unfriendly :-) no...@pci0:0:20:0: class=0x0c0500 card=0x37001565 chip=0x43851002 rev=0x3c hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ATI Technologies Inc. / Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.' device = 'ATI SMBus (ATI RD600/RS600)' class = serial bus

Re: Need supported SAS controller

2010-09-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Il 09/07/10 20:26, Torbjorn Granlund ha scritto: Is the any PCIe SAS controller that is supported by FreeBSD 8.1 that I can purchase today? The controller should preferably be low-profile. RAID is not needed since I have just one disk, but if only RAID controllers are available, I can live with

Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading

2010-08-31 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Suppose I have an executable which I need to invoke repeatedly (e.g. to run tests in a makefile). This executables spend most of its time loading (rather than processing), due to the need of several huge shared libraries. I'd welcome an hint on how to speed this up. Possible thing

Re: Speeding up (caching?) shared libraries loading

2010-08-31 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Il 08/31/10 16:35, Dan Nelson ha scritto: In the last episode (Aug 31), Andrea Venturoli said: Suppose I have an executable which I need to invoke repeatedly (e.g. to run tests in a makefile). This executables spend most of its time loading (rather than processing), due to the need of several

Re: Installing wget

2010-08-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Il 08/09/10 20:20, Jerry McAllister ha scritto: Hi All, I started an instal of wget from ports - /usr/ports/ftp/wget It comes up with some selections and I mistakenly selected GNUTLS. Now I constantly get GNUTLS and OPENSSL are mutually exclusive, enable at most one of them And the make

Strange filesystem problems

2010-07-21 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm experiencing a strange problem on a 7.2p8/i386 box. This is not critical, since I have a workaround, but it's annoying and I'm also curious :-) Let's say I have directory foo; under foo I have bar which keeps thousands of files (in several subdirectories). I do: %cd /xyzzy/foo

Re: Strange filesystem problems

2010-07-21 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Il 07/21/10 14:00, A. Wright ha scritto: On Wed, 21 Jul 2010, Andrea Venturoli wrote: Let's say I have directory foo; under foo I have bar which keeps thousands of files (in several subdirectories). I do: %cd /xyzzy/foo %pwd xyzzy/foo %rm -fR bar %pwd pwd: .: Permission denied

Re: Sata Tape Drives

2010-07-16 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Il 07/16/10 00:24, Dan Nelson ha scritto: In the last episode (Jul 15), Michael Anderson said: Or, more clearly: Are SATA tape drives supported? I see they are on some other BSD flavors, but I haven't found any mention in the FreeBSD hardware compatibility documents. I see an atapist device

Re: PDF storage software recommendations?

2010-06-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/17/10 22:54, Dale Scott wrote: I'm experimenting with OpenDocMan (PHP/MySQL, http://www.opendocman.com/) We evaluated OpenDocMan (not me personally) and ended up choosing KnowledgeTree. YMMV. bye av. ___

Re: net-snmp 5.5 tcp wrappers broken

2010-06-09 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 06/09/10 17:12, krad wrote: Has anyone one else this behaviour Yep. /etc/hosts.allow ALL : X : allow ALL : ALL : deny snmpd: ALL : allow works. Googling around, it seems FreeBSD is not the only OS affected... bye av. ___

Re: Which gdb GUI do you use?

2010-03-18 Thread Andrea Venturoli
On 03/18/10 08:15, Yuri wrote: I know there is ddd, but it has so many bugs that it makes it barely usable. There is emacs, but I am not used to it and don't like it. It's love it or hate it usually for most people. There is some GUI called Insight, for some reason it's not in ports. I've built

SATA regression with 7.2

2010-03-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I've got a box with a VIA VT8251 chipset and a single SATA HD, running 6.3/i386. I'm trying to upgrade it to 7.2, but, when booting with the new kernel, it won't detect any HD. In my BIOS I can set the controller to SATA, RAID or AHCI, but that doesn't matter. Here's what I see

Bluetooth headset

2010-03-01 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I searched with Google, but all the threads I found are quite old, so... Is it possible to use any VoIP software with a bluetooth headset with FreeBSD? What about Skype? bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

USB Tape Drives

2010-02-02 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Just a quick question before I buy... Are USB tape drives working? On 7.2? On 8.0? bye Thanks av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: I have mail, but where?

2009-12-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Steve Randall ha scritto: No mail for andrea Are there really two spaces in a row there? That's a vital clue. Sure. I noticed that too, but though it might be normal. For some reason your 'USER' environment variable is set to ' andrea' (with a leading space). Then .cshrc sets the 'mail'

I have mail, but where?

2009-12-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. This evening something new appeared on my box. When I open an xterm or a KDE shell, I get: You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/. This does not happen when I login on ttyvX. Nothing mail related is on this box (apart from KMail and Thunderbird) and ls -l /var/mail gives only zero

Re: I have mail, but where?

2009-12-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
APseudoUtopia ha scritto: Type mail You have 10 mail messages in /var/mail/. %mail No mail for andrea % I had already tried that, but AFAIK mail reads from /var/mail/andrea and that file is not there (in spite of the above message). FreeBSD has a daily cron security and status

Re: I have mail, but where?

2009-12-22 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Ed Jobs ha scritto: In my box, there is the ~/mbox file that has the messages in it. you can check out if it exists... Nope. bye av. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions

Re: APC Smartups 1500va sua1500

2009-12-17 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Gary Kline ha scritto: Okay, well, very-soon, I'll need to plug in my watt-meter to see how much juice my server, firewall, and maybe one desktop take. Guessing is less than 500w. Is there a tutorial for newbie on how to use this beast? Optimally, I

Re: WINE on 6.3

2009-12-11 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Andrea Venturoli ha scritto: Tijl Coosemans ha scritto: On Saturday 05 December 2009 13:47:00 Andrea Venturoli wrote: Is WINE usable on 6.3/i386? I cannot seem to start any win32 program and before I spend time into it, I thought I just ask. You probably need the FreeBSD 6.x patch at http

Re: WINE on 6.3

2009-12-07 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Tijl Coosemans ha scritto: On Saturday 05 December 2009 13:47:00 Andrea Venturoli wrote: Is WINE usable on 6.3/i386? I cannot seem to start any win32 program and before I spend time into it, I thought I just ask. You probably need the FreeBSD 6.x patch at http://wiki.freebsd.org/Wine

WINE on 6.3

2009-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Is WINE usable on 6.3/i386? I cannot seem to start any win32 program and before I spend time into it, I thought I just ask. My interest is almost limited to running a simple console app that does very litte beyond reading a text file, processing it, and outputting another text file.

Re: WINE on 6.3

2009-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Gary Gatten ha scritto: I can't speak to if WINE will work or nor, but if the app is so simple why not use a native bsd/*nix app? Because it doesn't exist and, even if it did, I have to use *that* app, not an equivalent one. bye av. ___

Re: WINE on 6.3

2009-12-05 Thread Andrea Venturoli
RW ha scritto: For win32 console applications try using wineconsole, if you aren't already. I've tried both, but both seem to hang with CPU at 100%, doing nothing. If your app is a DOS application you would be better-off with dosbox. DosBox works as a charm, but this app is Win32.

6.3 uname -a weirdness

2009-12-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. Due to the recent advisories, on an i386 6.3 box, i just did: cd /usr/src make update make buildworld make kernel KERNCONF=MYKERNEL make installworld shutdown -r now Now uname -a reports 6.3p13, although cat /usr/src/UPDATING gives: ... 20091203: p14 FreeBSD-SA-09:15.ssl,

Re: 6.3 uname -a weirdness

2009-12-03 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Diego F. Arias R. ha scritto: If you are using freebsd-update to keep your system up-to-date is normal. Unless updates apply to kernel it will keep the number of the last one who patch it. As I said above, I did a source upgrade. bye Thanks av.

Re: Mountable encrypted file? What to use?

2009-10-12 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Greg Morell ha scritto: Since TrueCrypt doesn't work on FreeBSD, I'm wondering what you'd recommend for this: I like to keep all of my sensitive stuff in a few encrypted mountable files. Something where I can copy the file to a USB key for backup, but not worry if I lose the USB key since

Re: OpenMP

2009-08-31 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Daniel Underwood ha scritto: Did you add the -fopenmp flag to both the compiler and the linker? Both need it. Thanks, this solves any compiling/linking problem. Now my compiling session looks like this: g++42 -c -pipe -Wall -Wextra -Wpointer-arith -Wwrite-strings -Wconversion -Wsign-compare

[SOLVED] Re: OpenMP

2009-08-31 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Daniel Underwood ha scritto: However, the program crashes with a Bad system call as soon as it calls std::getline. Can we see the code? No, sorry (not my code, not my decision). However, I solved this issue: as I said, I linked with g++42 -o test.exe test.o lib.a -L/usr/local/lib -lstdc++

OpenMP

2009-07-30 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. I'm trying to use OpenMP in C++ on FreeBSD 6.3p10/i386 and I'm totally stuck. First off, base system's gcc (3.4.6) does not include OpenMP support, so I'm using gcc 4.2.5 from ports (I also tried 4.3.4, but that does not make much difference). I've added the flag -fopenmp to the command

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