Vinum RAID5 speed question

2003-09-26 Thread Martin Brecher
Hi, - I plan on setting up a vinum RAID5 array of three 120GB IDE disks. The disks will be attached to two Promise 100 TX2 controllers, on which two other disks are residing, too. The following questions have come to my mind: 1. I thought about getting disks with 8MB cache. Does the bigger

Re: FBSD 5.2-1 NIS/YP KDE

2004-04-17 Thread Martin Brecher
RA Cohen wrote: [...] I have been successful in all aspects but one: client logins default to the most basic window mgr (tvwm I think). There are approx. 400 potentiaol users total over 65 workstations (a school environment). How can I make all of them default to KDE without manually going into

Re: Ugly Huge BSD Monster

2003-09-02 Thread Martin Brecher
First off, let me say that FreeBSD is one of the cleanest systems out there as the developers try to remove bigger packages from the base system instead of adding more bloat every release. One example would be the removal of perl from the base distribution in 5.x. As for perl and the other

Re: Updating jail

2004-08-11 Thread Martin Brecher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Renato Botelho wrote: | Hi all, | | I have a box running FreeBSD-5.2.1-RELEASE-p9, and I have a jail | running on this machine, all works fine. | | When FreeBSD-5.3 releases, I want to upgrade my box to this version, | how must I proceed to upgrade my

Re: 802.1x

2004-08-19 Thread Martin Brecher
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cubicool wrote: [...] | I've scoured google all | over and discovered Open1x--which has openly dropped all BSD support [...] This statement does not seem to be entirely correct. The website http://www.open1x.org states that version 0.7 from 12 June

Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2

2004-01-02 Thread Martin Brecher
Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote: [...] Yes, see my post from earlier today called Can't shutdown, logout, or restart cleanly. [...] thanks, I've read it - I have Asus P3B-F motherboard :)) But seriously, I'm not sure it's hardware-related - I don't remember a single occurence of this problem in 5.1 and

Re: How can I duplicate a set of installed ports?

2004-01-02 Thread Martin Brecher
John Mills wrote: [...] I have an installation I'm comfortable with, between those ports I chose to install, those I chose _not_ to install, and those I went around and added individually. Now I want to install the same set in a number of other systems. [...] The machines have 3.5 diskettes,

Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2

2004-01-03 Thread Martin Brecher
Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote: [...] However, I managed to work around these freezes by removing the two SMP-related lines from my kernel configuration: options SMP # Symmetric MultiProcessor Kernel device apic # I/O APIC Additionally, I am sure ACPI does not have anything to do with

Re: gnumail

2004-01-03 Thread Martin Brecher
Robert Warning wrote: I almost forgot. You will get a different font error with the libart backend, but I know how to fix it :) Download this gziped tarball http://www.stupid-design.com/martin/GNUstep.de/Fonts/FreeFonts.nfont.tar.gz and unpack it in /usr/local/GNUstep/System/Library/Fonts.

Re: Problems with startx on 5.2-RC2

2004-01-03 Thread Martin Brecher
Jaroslaw Nozderko wrote: [...] I installed 5.2-RC2 again, added hint.acpi.0.disabled=1 to /boot/device.hints, but then I got this in dmesg after vga0:... unknown: PNP0401 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0501 can't assign resources (port) unknown: PNP0501 can't assign resources (port)

Re: jails; sharing parts of file system; mounting pieces of file system in other positions, etc.

2004-01-07 Thread Martin Brecher
opinion. Personally, I use (localhost) nfs-mounts to remount parts of the file system somewhere else. Works quite well. Greetings, Martin Brecher ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe

Re: Plan 9 style backup utility for FreeBSD?

2004-01-07 Thread Martin Brecher
Scott Mitchell wrote: [...] Is there some standard tool for doing this on FreeBSD? You can't just do a direct copy cause this results in major disk space wastage so I'm imagining you need to use hard links or something to keep the size down. Check out rsync and the --link-dest=DIR option. This

X11 clipboard problems

2006-09-26 Thread Martin Brecher
Hello, - I have the following problem: box1 : FreeBSD 6.2-BETA with Xorg box2 : FreeBSD 4.11 with XFree 4.3 When I ssh from box1 into box2 using X11Forwarding and launch an application, for example Mozilla, on box2, I cannot copy and paste between the applications running on box1 and the