Re: Dual (zaphod) head on Intel i810 does not work for FreeBSD V7.0 Release

2008-08-29 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 17:56 +1000, Ray Newman wrote: > Hi, > > Under FreeBSD V6.2 Release (X 6.9.0 and i810 1.4.1) with this > xorg.conf, this log file > is produced and the dual screen config works. > > > Under FreeBSD V7.0 Release (X 1.4.0 and i810 1.6.5) with this xorg.conf which > is near

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-02-29 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 15:44 +, Chris wrote: > On 29/02/2008, Ted Mittelstaedt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > A weakness of freebsd is its fussyness over hardware in particular > network cards, time and time again I see posts here telling people to > go out buying expensive intel pro 1000 cards

RE: Capturing dmesg upon system crash on 6.3

2008-02-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 15:41 +0200, Yehonatan Yossef wrote: > I'm looking into the syslogd capabilities at the moment, it might be > enough. > I've tried following the serial console setup you've pointed, but when I > added the 'console="comconsole"' to loader.conf the OS hanged during > boot time,

Re: Wine compatibility and performance on FreeBSD 7

2007-12-11 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2007-12-10 at 23:44 -0500, Tom Wickline wrote: > On Dec 10, 2007 11:41 PM, Brett Glass <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's worth noting that the WINE project, not long ago, abandoned > > the BSD license for the GPL despite urging from many sources to keep > > the code open and free for use

RE: Optimal Apache22 configuration

2007-11-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 14:58 +0100, Marcio Cicero wrote: > Hi Tom, > > Thanks for your input. > > As far as I can remember there were experimental support for kqueue > polling events on apache2 which I remember as nice performance > improvement. But unfortunately I can't find any info regarding kq

Re: Optimal Apache22 configuration

2007-11-22 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2007-11-21 at 19:49 +0100, Marcio Cicero wrote: > Hello all, > > Tomorrow i'll start configuring an apache22 server at work and I've been > searching what's the best configuration for apache22 on apache. > > Is it possible to use kqueue() support for apache22? Also, the best threading >

Re: Cleartype-similar?

2007-08-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 11:55 +0100, Adam J Richardson wrote: > Roger Olofsson wrote: > > Dear Mailing List, > > > > Is there something similar to cleartype for FreeBSD? > > > > Grateful for any replies! > > > > Greetings > > > > /Roger > > Hi Roger, > > I believe you are after FreeType. Should

Re: semi OT: sh scripting problem

2007-08-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 10:35 -0400, Robert Huff wrote: > (This is probably a FAQ, and I'll take a pointer (or even the > magic words to identify the problem) instead of an answer.) > Let's suppose I have a file FILE, with contents: > > foo > bar grill > baz > >

Re: Increasing GELI performance

2007-07-31 Thread Tom Evans
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 14:26 +0100, Dominic Bishop wrote: > I've just been testing out GELI performance on an underlying RAID using a > 3ware 9550SXU-12 running RELENG_6 as of yesterday and seem to be hitting a > performance bottleneck, but I can't see where it is coming from. > > Testing with an u

Re: Root access loggin

2007-07-30 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 08:11 -0500, Eric Crist wrote: > On Jul 30, 2007, at 7:34 AMJul 30, 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote: > > > Tom Evans wrote: > >> This seems great in principle, but of course, you just gave them a > >> root > >> shell, and so they

Re: Root access loggin

2007-07-30 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 13:18 -0400, Ian Lord wrote: > Hi, > > > > A Zend technician asked me to have a root access on one of my box to > troubleshoot something wrong in Zend Platform installation that doesn't work > on Freebsd. > > > > He will need root access naturally to install and debug

Re: WPI Driver Support (WAS: Re: mode 11g, but 6Mbps)

2007-07-24 Thread Tom Evans
Here is the current output of loading the very latest wpi code from p4 (loaded with sysctl debug.bootverbose=1) : pci8: driver added found-> vendor=0x8086, dev=0x4222, revid=0x02 bus=8, slot=0, func=0 class=02-80-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0 cmdreg=0x0006, statreg=0x0010, cach

Re: WPI Driver Support (WAS: Re: mode 11g, but 6Mbps)

2007-07-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 16:58 +0200, Federico Lorenzi wrote: > On 7/24/07, Tom Evans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:42 +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > > > Federico Lorenzi wrote: > > > > On 7/24/07, Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: mode 11g, but 6Mbps

2007-07-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 11:42 +0200, Pietro Cerutti wrote: > Federico Lorenzi wrote: > > On 7/24/07, Pietro Cerutti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi List, > >> I have an Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG adapter using the wpi0 driver > >> connecting to an access point using the 802.11g mode. > >> # ifconf

Re: Can cron e-mail HTML?

2007-07-19 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-07-19 at 07:55 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > On четвер 19 липень 2007, Tom Evans wrote: > = Or you could patch cron to use libmagic > > Done: > > http://aldan.algebra.com/~mi/cron-mime.diff > > It even works now... > > = and have cron scripts

Re: Can cron e-mail HTML?

2007-07-19 Thread Tom Evans
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 19:14 -0400, Mikhail Teterin wrote: > On субота 14 липень 2007, Daniel Bye wrote: > = So it's beginning to look as if your best bet is in fact to make your > = script handle sending the mail. > > Yeah, seems like it... > > = Not the cleanest solution, but one that will get y

Re: accessing mysql server remotely

2007-07-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 12:15 +, Duane Hill wrote: > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 at 12:01 -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: > > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 at 23:33 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] confabulated: > > > >> Just a general question about mysql remote access. > >> > >> Is it possible to login to my r

Re: iteam - Linux project, to freeBSD team.

2007-07-06 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2007-07-06 at 14:03 +0100, Jorge Rosa - (BIGARTE) wrote: > Hello all there. > > We are developing a open-source game called "iteam". > It will be an "worms/wormux/gunbound" game like, with new ideas, etc. > > We wanna make it like a tribute to ALL (major) linux distros, includindg > yours

Re: freebsd / gateway / parental control

2007-07-04 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2007-07-02 at 12:44 -0400, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Norberto Meijome wrote: > > On Fri, 29 Jun 2007 22:46:10 +0200 > > Momchil Ivanov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> 4) Forget about the DSL router. Box with wireless NIC, 1 NIC for home net, > >> 1 > >> NIC for the DSL > >>- same as above

Re: "late filesystems" and switching net configs

2007-07-04 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 07:59 +0200, Peter Boosten wrote: > Chad Perrin wrote: > > I have a couple of niggling little, er, "quirks" that I'd like to get > > sorted out on my FreeBSD Thinkpad. > > > > 2. For some reason, if I use DHCP at all then want to switch back to my > > static IP setup, I h

Re: The worst error message in history belongs to... BIND9!

2007-07-03 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 09:36 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2007, Martin McCormick wrote: > >Paul Chvostek writes: > >> This is actually just the difference between sh and bash. You'll see > >> the latter error if you type `a = 5` in bash in any OS. It just so > >> happens that most

Re: 7-Current: turn off debugging (kqread?)

2007-06-29 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 09:34 -0500, Kevin Kramer wrote: > I know that debugging is turned on everywhere on 7-Current and I've read > UPDATING. But what I can't find is how to turn off debugging. I've tried > removing all debugging from the kernel, but it won't build. I can't find > any userland d

Re: [SOLVED, sort of] Re: svn+ssh over nonstandard port fails to connect

2007-06-29 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 04:23 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > For a moment, I thought this wasn't going to work, because nothing like > that syntax seems to work in tcsh -- but then I remembered that, in this > case, the only reason I was even doing this was to test whether someone > else would be able t

Re: Selecting printer from apps core dumps. Howto debug?

2007-06-28 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 11:08 +0100, Graham Bentley wrote: > Hi FreeBSD'ers ! > > I have now a nice desktop setup with Xfce4 etc > thanks to all help from the list (what a great > place to be:) > > I have cups setup with a ppd to print to my usb > HP Busines Inkjet 1200. > > It works perfectly f

Re: Wine users ... unite! (Wine, as in Windows Emulation, of course)

2007-06-27 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 11:15 -0300, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Over the past few weeks, a group of have been plugging away in relative > obscurity to fix the world .. or, at least, the world as revolves around > WINE. > We have a few kernel h

Re: UFS(2, 3 ?) vs ZFS.

2007-06-20 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 21:49 +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> UFS and future derivatives are here to stay. > >> > > Yeah, but you know because of how nice ZFS is, a concept of using ZFS > > for /home and UFS for everything else will probably turn into a > > if ZFS will really be so nice i will b

Re: FreeBSD box/ADSL link config

2007-06-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 22:00 +0200, Erik Norgaard wrote: > Hi: > > I am a bit confused as to what exactly I am trying to do - or that is > how the protocols layers and stuff. My current setup is like this: > > 10.0.0/24 192.168.0/24 static IP > Wireless ))--- AP --- Fre

Re: Memory mannagment

2007-06-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 11:36 +0300, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2007-06-14 01:15, cadastrosonline cadastrosonline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > First of all, > > > > "Each process has its own private address space. The address space is > > initially divided > > into three logical segments: te

Re: limited shell access

2007-05-24 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 20:38 -0400, kalin mintchev wrote: > > hi all.. > > > > is it possible to limit access for certain users only to a certain > > directory tree - other then his/her home directory? > > so... can i do that or not? > > > > > for example joe logs into his home directory where

Re: temp

2007-05-14 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 18:12 -0500, Jack Barnett wrote: > Is there any program that'll monitor the temperate of my motherboard? > > There are some windows program that'll give me status on my fans, CPU > temps, motherboard temps, etc - is there anything like that in the > ports collection? > > (ba

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 08:49 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > A good rule of thumb: Don't buy a video card with more RAM than 1/8 to > 1/4 of the system RAM, because the RAM is shared with the system RAM, > which means you have less overall system RAM to use for apps. > > -Garrett Er? Whilst I agr

Re: Fluxbox crashes when I startx

2007-05-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:21 -0400, E. J. Cerejo wrote: > Since Fluxbox has moved from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/local I haven't been > able to start it, it just crashes I followed the instruction on how to > edit the menu file but it still crashes and I get this line. Has anyone > had this problem wit

Re: WOW! {Or Holy whatever}

2007-05-10 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 22:04 -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Eric Crist wrote: > > On May 9, 2007, at 8:34 PMMay 9, 2007, Gary Kline wrote: > > > >> On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:18:52PM -0500, Eric Crist wrote: > >>> > >>> Gary, > >>> > >>> Most cards that might come with DVI output instead of the sta

Re: command to inentify the process that is listening in a port.

2007-05-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 14:52 -0400, Bob Johnson wrote: > On 4/10/07, Jonathan McKeown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 09 April 2007 17:37, Martin Hudec wrote: > > > Siju George wrote: > > > > How Do you actually Identify what process is listening on a TCP/IP port? > > > > "nmap" does not us

Re: dual monitors?

2007-05-09 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:17 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: > --On May 8, 2007 6:15:52 PM -0500 Jonathan Horne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > anyone out there running dual monitors in FreeBSD? > > Of course. > > > if so, what is your setup? single display adapter/2 heads, or 2 > seperate adapte

Re: ppp.conf + resolv.conf

2007-05-08 Thread Tom Evans
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 18:32 +0100, Matthew Seaman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA256 > > JD Bronson wrote: > > I am using 6.2 as a DSL (PPPoE) router and also run my own internal DNS > > on the same machine. I would like to APPEND my ISP's dished out DNS > > servers to my c

Re: fusefs-sshfs fails to compile

2007-05-01 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-04-26 at 17:16 -0600, Chad Perrin wrote: > I'm not sure why, but fusefs-sshfs refuses to compile on a Thinkpad R52 > running FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE. I get the following when I try (watch the > line wrap after -qa on the second line): > > Stop in /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-sshfs. >

Re: How to find HorizSync / VertRefresh rates?

2007-04-30 Thread Tom Evans
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 11:02 +0200, Victor Engmark wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to create a pristine xorg.conf, but I've been unable to > find proper values for HorizSync and VertRefresh for my Dell Latitude > D610. Don't bother trying. If it works when you leave them unspecified, don't think a

Re: Using LD_PRELOAD to make date return a specific date

2007-04-26 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 19:39 -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: > I recently discovered LD_PRELOAD, a cool environment variable that > lets a library "intercept" system calls. For example, setting > LD_PRELOAD to /usr/lib/libtsocks.so lets tsocks intercept socket > connections and redirect them to a SOCKS pr

Re: Code beautification and/or printing utilities that are not part of an editor

2007-04-20 Thread Tom Evans
On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 10:23 +0100, Tom Evans wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 15:10 -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: > > Another question for everyone. Are there any programs, hopefully > > available in the ports, that one can use to print source code files to > > a printer (or c

Re: Code beautification and/or printing utilities that are not part of an editor

2007-04-20 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 15:10 -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote: > Another question for everyone. Are there any programs, hopefully > available in the ports, that one can use to print source code files to > a printer (or create as a postscript file)? > > I'd like something that I can feed a C++ program,

Re: MS, Adobe competition heats up, Will Adobe wake and port Flash to BSD?

2007-04-19 Thread Tom Evans
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 06:59 +0300, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri wrote: > On 4/18/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 17/04/07, Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > . . . > > > Porting Flash to more OSes will sure will make adobe beats MS when it > > > comes

Re: BSD make vs. GNU make

2007-04-18 Thread Tom Evans
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 17:28 +0100, Soo-Hyun Choi wrote: > Hi, > > This might be a dumb question, but would like get a clear idea about > the differences between BSD make and GNU make. Why do I have to do > 'gmake' in some cases instead of just plain 'make'? > > What's the differences? > > Thanks