Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-29 Thread Fred Morcos
On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 1:19 PM, jb wrote: > Fred Morcos gmail.com> writes: > > > .. > > The improvement effect can be > > noticed on large inputs. These algorithms will most probably perform > quite > > badly on small inputs. > > I think your conce

Re: "swap" partition leads to instability?

2013-05-28 Thread Fred Morcos
On Tue, May 28, 2013 at 8:42 PM, jb wrote: > Follow up comment. > > It has been pointed out to me that there is Varnish software taking > advantage > of system VMM and swap space. > > Well, there are cache-oblivious algorithms that perform as well, and so > they > make the above (disk access mode

Re: Anatomy of Perfomance tests

2012-06-29 Thread Fred Morcos
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 1:12 PM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > what i would like to see too is how these systems compare on such test: > > - run lots of heavy disk I/O tests, many different in the same time, > including ones doing many writes to different places. > > - turn off power while doing this,

Re: Anatomy of Perfomance tests

2012-06-29 Thread Fred Morcos
On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote: > Most probably all filesystems were used with defaults. > > MAYBE softupdates, but not even sure for this. Compare this to linux which > is async-like. Comparing with UFS+async would be more fair. > > Still - FreeBSD default MAXPHYS in para

Re: New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-21 Thread Fred Morcos
his system is ZFS. q) I would like to hear anyone's recommendation of a cheap, low-power ready-made hardware for such a purpose which is supported by FreeBSD. I poked around a little bit and the HP micro-servers seem to be interesting, but unfortunately too powerful (and thus power-hungry)

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-21 Thread fred . morcos
And I just want to add I'm a gay Marxist atheist and I represent the accusations leveled in that other post...we have feelings too!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscrib

Re: Flaming mailing lists (was Re: Why Clang)

2012-06-20 Thread Fred Morcos
On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 2:25 PM, Jonathan McKeown wrote: > On Wednesday 20 June 2012 12:59:51 Stephen Cook wrote: >> On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: > > [snip childish invective] > >> I'm a relative newcomer. Are the FreeBSD mailing lists always this >> flame-y? I realize

New to FreeBSD - Some questions

2012-06-20 Thread Fred Morcos
. Also, I have done a bit of poking around to answer each of my own questions, obviously with no luck, so I do not mind RTFM-ing - I would actually prefer it, please feel free to link me to an article, tutorial, man page or handbook that already answers one or more question(s). Cheers, Fred

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-20 Thread Fred Morcos
I am also a newcomer and I agree with Stephen. But I guess the only way is to simply ignore those who make such statements. I don't see much benefit in arguing or reasoning with them. On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Stephen Cook wrote: > On 6/19/2012 4:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote:

Re: CLANG vs GCC tests of fortran/f2c program

2012-06-20 Thread Fred Morcos
The answer is: 1. gcc will still be available through the ports system. 2. The move to clang/llvm as a default compiler will reduce the amount of GPL code in the base system, eventually reducing distribution issues (especially for 3rd parties). 3. clang/llvm provides better error and warning messa

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Fred Morcos
I don't see much fruit coming out of that conversation anymore. On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 10:06 PM, Anonymous Remailer (austria) wrote: > >> GPL protects the freedom of the programmer who licensed his >> code under those licenses: He wants it to be free for use, >> but not to be turned into closed

Re: Why Clang

2012-06-19 Thread Fred Morcos
I would also guess that the base system is stuck with gcc ~4.1 due to the GPLv3-ization of later gcc version. Is that correct? On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Michel Talon wrote: > David Brodbeck said: >> Another way of looking at it is after 25 years of optimization GCC is >> unable to beat a n

Re: rm returns 0 although directory didn't exist and wasn't deleted ?

2012-06-19 Thread Fred Morcos
wrote: > I always assumed -f would only force removal, not modify the exit code. > > No bug then, working as intended, all good. > > > > Cheers > > On 6/19/12 3:43 PM, Fred Morcos wrote: >> You used -f which means rm will not complain if a file or directory >&g

Re: rm returns 0 although directory didn't exist and wasn't deleted ?

2012-06-19 Thread Fred Morcos
You used -f which means rm will not complain if a file or directory cannot be deleted (or does not exist in the first place). On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Damien Fleuriot wrote: > I've stumbled upon this *so weird* behaviour. > > > > # ls -la /var/tmp/stunnel/ > ls: /var/tmp/stunnel/: No such

Re: problem updating ports (latex-cjk)

2011-04-25 Thread Fred
Hi Fred, The make clean went ok. The make patch: ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found ===> License check disabled, port has not defined LICENSE ===> Found saved configuration for latex-cjk-4.8.2_4 ===> Extracting for latex-cjk-4.8.2_4 => SHA256 Checksum O

problem updating ports (latex-cjk)

2011-04-25 Thread Fred
ing rejects to texinput/Bg5/c00bsmi.fd.rej => Patch patch-texinput-Bg5-c00bsmi.fd failed to apply cleanly. => Patch(es) patch-Makefile applied cleanly. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/latex-cjk. *** Error code 1 Stop in /usr/ports/print/latex-cjk. What can I do to fix this? B

Re: are there any GUI editors that use vi/vim-like abbreviations

2011-02-21 Thread Fred
t. The current version in ports for 8.1-RELEASE has a problem requiring a simple patch when it is built. This was discussed here a couple weeks ago. Best regards, Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/l

Re: wine questions

2011-02-16 Thread Fred
On 01/27/11 20:47, Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Fred wrote: I am interested in the Xeltek SuperPro-5000. This unit will alsowork stand-alone with a CF card programmed by the PC in addition to usb. I believe the user software downloads a set of programming parameters and the

Re: nedit problem

2011-02-08 Thread Fred
On 02/06/11 19:36, b. f. wrote: Fred Boatwright wrote: On 02/06/11 00:53, b. f. wrote: Fred Boatwright wrote: After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text area, for example to copy a block of

Re: nedit problem

2011-02-06 Thread Fred
On 02/06/11 00:53, b. f. wrote: Fred Boatwright wrote: After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text area, for example to copy a block of text, the cursor changes shape and the X session becomes

Re: nedit problem

2011-02-06 Thread Fred
On 02/06/11 00:53, b. f. wrote: Fred Boatwright wrote: After updating all ports on 8.1-RELEASE, nedit has a problem. The right mouse button works ok in the toolbar but if it is pressed in the text area, for example to copy a block of text, the cursor changes shape and the X session becomes

nedit problem

2011-02-05 Thread Fred Boatwright
he port update. xpdf gives similar warnings but seems to work ok. What can I do to resolve at least the lockup problem? Best regards, Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-quest

Re: wine questions

2011-01-28 Thread Fred
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Fred wrote: I am interested in the Xeltek SuperPro-5000. This unit will alsowork stand-alone with a CF card programmed by the PC in addition to usb. I believe the user software downloads a set of programming parameters and the file to be programmed

Re: wine questions

2011-01-27 Thread Fred
Warren Block wrote: On Thu, 27 Jan 2011, Fred wrote: I need to buy an expensive logic device programmer that connects to a PC through USB. Unfortunately, the user software that make it go only runs on Bill Gates' cancerous, virus-infested, scourge of the Earth excuse for an OS which

wine questions

2011-01-27 Thread Fred
wine? What type of programs do not work well with wine? There is a supported, commercial version of wine that runs on Linux. Would I be better off buying that and running it on the FBSD Linux emulation? Best regards, Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebs

Re: Changing the MAC address on a LAN adapter

2011-01-24 Thread Fred
be, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Ethernet MAC addresses are assigned by the manufacturer of the equipment. Each unit gets a unique address which generally can't be changed and shouldn't be changed. The manufacturer bu

portmaster question

2010-11-07 Thread Fred
Hello, According to man portmaster the -a option will "Update all ports that need updating". Does this apply to only installed ports or to everything in /usr/ports? Best regards, Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: ghostscript install problem

2010-10-28 Thread Fred
Lowell Gilbert wrote: Fred writes: Hello, I am trying to install ghostscript8 from ports on 8.0-RELEASE-p4. The build stops when /usr/ports/print/ghostscript8/work/ghostscript-8.64/epag-3.09/ert is to be installed in /usr/local/bin. The error is file not found. Error code 71. I tried

ghostscript install problem

2010-10-28 Thread Fred
.c:82: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit' ert.c:87: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit' ert.c:116: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit' What can I do to resolve t

ghostscript install problem

2010-10-25 Thread Fred
#x27; ert.c:82: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit' ert.c:87: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit' ert.c:116: warning: incompatible implicit declaration of built-in function 'exit' What can I do to resolve

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-23 Thread Fred
per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Fred Boatwright wrote: Until FBSD X is working on the pc I have to use Netscape 4.79 on a Sun running Solaris 2.6 (which I would prefer to keep using if only a modern browser was available) ... If the problems with X on FBSD are limited to the X "s

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-22 Thread Fred Boatwright
Frank Shute wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 07:19:36PM +0200, Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > > > On Sunday 22 August 2010 06:22:48 Fred Boatwright wrote: > > > The .xinitrc file: > > > xrdb > > > xsetroot -solid gray & > > > xterm

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-22 Thread Fred Boatwright
o not have the driver you suggest on the CD. I have: nividia-driver nividia-driver-173 nividia-driver-71 nividia-driver-96 Which should be used? I was not able to find the version you mentioned with the freebsd website ports search function. Since Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro works then I thi

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-22 Thread Fred Boatwright
Tijl Coosemans wrote: > > On Sunday 22 August 2010 06:22:48 Fred Boatwright wrote: > > Eitan Adler wrote: > >>> The actual problem I am having is that startx produces only a completely > >>> black screen.  Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro  produces the expe

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-22 Thread Fred Boatwright
Marc Fonvieille wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 07:41:49PM -0700, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > Warren Block wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Warren Block wrote: > > > > > > > Log file is at http://wonkity.com/~wblock/tmp/Xorg.0.log >

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
Eitan Adler wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 21, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > Eitan Adler wrote: > >> > >> >> Something odd is going on with some of the fonts. > >> > > >> > I installed ports/x11/xorg-minimal as the full Monty app

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
ving is that startx produces only a completely black screen. Xorg -config xorg.conf.new -retro produces the expected grid and mouse pointer. A .xinitrc file is supposed to start a window manager. Best regards, Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
dbook has a section on adding fonts. While looking for the xorg-minimal that I installed I found a bunch of nVidea drivers in the same directory. Do you think I should install them now or wait. Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http:/

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" Glen, Vesa is what Xorg -configure comes up with. Should the nVidia driver name be nv? Best regards, Fred ___ freebsd-questions@

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
Warren Block wrote: > > On Sat, 21 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > > .xinitrc > > xrdb > > xsetroot -solid gray & > > xterm -geometry +0-100 & > > xconsole -geometry -0+0 -fn 5x7 & > > #exec olvwm #complained about a missing font &g

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
Hi Matthew, The .xinitrc file starts fvwm. I have not found any error message that would indicate fvwm is not running. One of the common failure modes you mention is probably what I have! Best regards, Fred Matthew Seaman wrote: > > On 21/08/2010 18:13:09, Fred Boatwright wrote: &

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-21 Thread Fred Boatwright
Warren Block wrote: > > On Fri, 20 Aug 2010, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > > I am having trouble setting up X similar to a previous posting. I have > > a new 8.0 installation. > > > > Using the Handbook chapter suggested below I waas able to generate and > &g

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-20 Thread Fred Boatwright
startx the screen completely blanks out. It is possible to return to the command line prompt with ctrl-alt-F1 and then ^c. No errors are listed. Where would I look for the problem? Best regards, Fred Warren Block wrote: > > On Thu, 19 Aug 2010, Ondrej Majerech wrote: > > > On

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
Indeed you are right. I installed xinit from ports but something didn't happen as it should have. I tried again using pkg_add as you suggested and startx does exist now. I installed olvwm several days ago and it did not pull in the xorg stuff also. Thanks for the help! Best regards,

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
It is probably going to be an uphill battle to get olvwm to work. Am I going to have to install xorg to get everything needed? Best regards, Fred Tim Kellers wrote: > > Fred, > > From man startx(1): > > SEE ALSO > xinit(1), X(7), Xserver(1), Xorg(1), xorg.conf(5)

Re: X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
Hi Oliver and Tim, I installed xinit but startx still doesn't exist. whereis returns nothing and man startx returns nothing. Fred Tim Kellers wrote: > > /usr/ports/x11/xinit > > On my system (with X, obviously, already installed): > > beta# whereis startx > >

X11 question

2010-08-12 Thread Fred Boatwright
Hello, Where would I find startx? I assume it is part one of the ports under X11 but I don't want to install all of them to find it. Also, is p5-Tk the same as Perl/Tk? Best regards, Fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: firefox install problem

2010-08-10 Thread Fred Boatwright
ld be very difficult to deal with manually. Best regards, Fred Steven Susbauer wrote: > > On 08/09/10 22:17, Fred Boatwright wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I have installed FreeBSD-8.0 from the CD and have it running ok. I have > > installed several packages including thund

firefox install problem

2010-08-09 Thread Fred Boatwright
install firefox? Best regards, Fred ___ 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: POLL: Linux preferences from FreeBSD users

2009-07-03 Thread Fred C
this following example the kernel is reporting a disk error but forgot to specify the most important information, the disk. Jul 3 00:07:53 locdata204 kernel: [5706229.55] res 41/40:00:52:4a:73/83:02:27:00:00/00 Emask 0x9 (media error) -fred- __

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2009-06-12 Thread Fred Terp
This is a dumb Question which I should know the answer to. I can get gdm to recogize my logins but xdm and wdm wont accept my username/password entrys what am I forgetting? Frederick D. Terp 14985 Rivers Edge Court #135 Fort Myers, Florida 33908-7920 Phone: (239) 822-5439 Email: fdt...@juno.

Re: How to recover disk space after "filesystem full"

2009-05-22 Thread Fred Condo
On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Luke Dean wrote: > > Yes, it sounds like a stupid question, but let me tell the story. > > The log for my dhcp server filled up /var last night, which meant that > dhcpd was also unable to hand out new leases, which meant that I had > effectively been DOSed.  I'll

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Fred C
feel sometime like I am working on Windows. -fred- -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org ] On Behalf Of Fred C Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2009 1:52 PM To: J Sisson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: basic

Re: basic

2009-05-06 Thread Fred C
That project already exist it is called linux... -fred- On May 6, 2009, at 9:08 AM, J Sisson wrote: That's a great idea...let's take a wonderful open source project and flood it with Windows "programmers" who couldn't find the shell even if they booted without a GU

msk0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts)

2009-04-03 Thread Fred
Hi, I recently upgraded from 6.3 to 7.1 (7.1-RELEASE-p4) with freebsd-update, and I now have problems with msk0 very often (which I did have before) : Mar 30 20:14:19 blackbox kernel: msk0: watchdog timeout (missed Tx interrupts) -- recovering Mar 30 20:14:58 blackbox kernel: msk0: watchdog time

Re: Finding Dependencies

2009-03-17 Thread Fred Condo
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 1:55 PM, Jerry wrote: > > On Tue, 17 Mar 2009 19:16:19 + > Paul Schmehl wrote: > > [snip] > > >man (1) pkg_info > > > >-r what the package depends on > >-R what depends on the package > > It does not list any package that depends on it. I have no idea why it > is being

Re: World doesn't build correctly

2009-02-18 Thread Fred Condo
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Frank Wißmann wrote: > Am Dienstag 17 Februar 2009 21:20:15 schrieb Polytropon: >> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:14:58 +0100, Frank Wißmann > wrote: >> > What is going wrong here? Why isn't ther build a 7_STABLE as I >> > desire? What do I need to change to get my wante

Re: No periodic daily?

2009-02-18 Thread Fred Condo
On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Kurt Buff wrote: > All, > > I'm having a strange issue with one of my boxes. It's the router for our DS3: > > router#uname -a > FreeBSD router.mycompany.com 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Mon May > 19 01:16:12 PDT 2008 > r...@router.mycompany.com:/usr/obj/usr/sr

Re: pkg_info & php

2009-01-06 Thread Fred Condo
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:47 AM, Grant Peel wrote: > Hi all, > > I am getting 'segmentation faults' when using php (apache module) on a server > that recently had php 4 instlalled when php 5 was already there. > > /var/log/httpd-error.log: > > [Tue Jan 06 09:44:39 2009] [notice] child pid 8209 exi

Re: Behaviour of su(1)

2008-10-31 Thread Fred Condo
is still set to my previous user, as in : , | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~% /usr/bin/su -l | Password: | [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# echo $USER - $LOGNAME | root - fred ` As far as I can tell, this contradicts the fine manual that says : , | -l Simulate a full login. The environment is

Re: an even dumber q: how do i get sage's ports-ypgrade working?

2008-10-13 Thread Fred Condo
On Oct 10, 2008, at 4:21 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Late last December my small network began falling apart. Still not sure how, but a fellow from Dallas came to my rescue and from his home, slowly rebuilt and re-configured everything. E.g.: for one thing, where I

Re: kwik question re virt websites...

2008-10-10 Thread Fred Condo
On Oct 10, 2008, at 2:31 PM, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, When I restarted apache22, there was a warning that something was missing. It had nothing [ hopefully ] to do with the new virtual site I want to set up. Can anybody tell me what the following error

Re: php5 segfault

2008-10-08 Thread Fred Condo
On Oct 8, 2008, at 10:53 AM, Michael Powell wrote: Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 02:51:00PM +0200, Laszlo Nagy wrote: [snip] So it is using -O2 and -pipe. Is this something that I can disable? If you want. "make config" in /usr/ports/lang/php5 will give you a menu optio

Re: Mysqldump password issue

2008-10-02 Thread Fred Condo
On Oct 2, 2008, at 12:00 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Andrei Brezan wrote: Hello list, I wanna do a mysqldump -u user -ppasswd --all-databases > backup.sql and all I get is mysqldump: No match. This happens either i put --all-databases or I specify any of the databases. I want to do a backup as u

Re: Best way to back up mysql database

2008-09-30 Thread Fred Condo
I run a script from root's crontab (not /etc/crontab) and keep the login credentials in /root/.my.cnf so they don't have to be embedded in the script. Not that $gzip is defined as /bin/cat because I move copies offsite via rsync and disk space is abundant. This script keeps 30 daily backups

Government funds available

2008-09-11 Thread Fred
Press Release 12:44:30 PM The American Grants and Loans Book is now available. This publication contains more than 1800 financial programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants and loans offered by the US federal government. It also includes over 700 financing programs available by foundations

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Fred C
On Sep 3, 2008, at 11:27 PM, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Fred C Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 11:21 PM To: RW Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Google Chrome On Sep 3, 2008, at 5:21 PM

Re: Google Chrome

2008-09-03 Thread Fred C
have secured the market they will define the standards as they need it to be for their benefit. -fred- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: defrag

2008-08-27 Thread Fred C
Maybe it is because FAT filesystem wasn't well designed from the beginning and defrag was a workaround to solve performances problems. -fred- On Aug 27, 2008, at 5:29 PM, prad wrote: something that has puzzled me for years (but i've never got around to asking) is how does *ni

Government funds available

2008-08-24 Thread Fred
Press Release 5:46:05 PM The American Grants and Loans Book is now available. This publication contains valuable information with more than 1800 financial programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants and loans offered by the United States federal government. It also includes over 700 financin

Government funds available

2008-08-24 Thread Fred
Press Release 5:46:05 PM The American Grants and Loans Book is now available. This publication contains valuable information with more than 1800 financial programs, subsidies, scholarships, grants and loans offered by the United States federal government. It also includes over 700 financin

priority or order for /usr/local/etc/rc.d scripts?

2008-06-30 Thread fred
resin.sh to start apache.sh but it doesn’t work. # uname -a FreeBSD www.mydomain.com 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Thanks for your help! -fred ___ freebsd

FreeBSD, Xorg, Geode LX 500Mhz

2008-05-15 Thread Fred Schnittke
en/ScreenInit failed for driver 0 I've tried some drivers: xserver-xorg-video-geode_2.9.0.orig.tar.gz xserver-xorg-video-amd_2.7.6.5+git20070208.orig.tar.gz They ./configure fine, but I get all kinds of errors when I Make them. Any help would be appreciated Regards, Fred Schnit

Re: Apache and Environment

2008-05-12 Thread Fred Condo
r startup command for apache. -- Fred

Re: "X" Screensaver

2008-04-16 Thread Fred Schnittke
he screen goes blank. Can anyone tell me definately, how to disable the "X" screen saver for good, for all users? Regards, Fred Schnittke Network Administrator -- There are 10 types of people in the world: Those who underst

Strange behavior with zfs

2008-04-04 Thread Fred C
is created on the destination directory as shown bellow. 509:0-> ls -ltr /mnt2 total 265 -rw-r--r--@ 1 fred wheel 135662 Apr 4 13:33 background.jpg -- 1 fred wheel 0 Apr 4 14:01 xxx.html When I do the exact same operations on /export which is an UFS file system everyt

RE: changed sendmail behavior on FreeBSD 7?

2008-03-31 Thread fred
knows how to get around this? -fred -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris St Denis Sent: 31 mars 2008 16:29 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: changed sendmail behavior on FreeBSD 7? I've setup a new web serv

FreeBSD-4.11 rc.d / startup scripts?

2008-03-31 Thread fred
” ? Thanks -fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

FreeBSD 7 on Zonbu machine

2008-03-28 Thread Fred C
I got two zonbu machines, and I am trying to run FreeBSD 7 on it. I am using tinybsd to make a bootable flash. So far everything seems to work fine but USB. Is there someone who have an idea why ? Thanks for any ideas. -fred- zonbu.boot Description: Binary data -- Fred C! PGP

RE: FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread fred
Thank you all for your replies. I will install FreeBSD AMD64 and test my softwares to make sure everything works as it should. Mission critical softwares are the reasons why I was sticking to 32-bit OS on my servers. -fred -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

FreeBSD-6.3 only detects 3GB of RAM

2008-03-27 Thread fred
e a better solution, any advices before I break my current setup? Thanks -fred ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: Timezone problem

2008-03-26 Thread fred
Hello, Thanks for your replies, for the records, here is the code we have modified in order to fix the problem: Changed: return (long) -tmCurr.tm_gmtoff; to: return -tmCurr.tm_gmtoff + tmCurr.tm_isdst * 3600; -fred -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: Timezone problem

2008-03-23 Thread fred
Yes, I have applied this patch: http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-07:04.zoneinfo.asc I have also installed this port: /usr/ports/misc/zoneinfo Which installs : tzdata2008a.tar.gz And I have obviously ran tzsetup, rebooted, but the problem persists. Thanks for help -fred

Re: Laptop advice

2008-03-23 Thread Fred C
f the chipset is not supported or badly you cannot like on a desktop change a component by an another. You want to go here http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html and search if every component of you laptop is supported. -fred- -- Fred C! PGP-KeyID: E7EA02EC3B487EE9 PGP-Finger

Timezone problem

2008-03-23 Thread fred
compiler Thread model: posix gcc version 3.4.6 [FreeBSD] 20060305 # uname -a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 11:05:30 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP i386 Thank for the help! -fred __

Re: Why not a DVD iso version too?

2008-03-16 Thread Fred C
twice but you quickly understand that you don't really need the CD2 and CD3. Also some people like to collect. They have shelves with all the releases from from Unix V3, but I am sure this is not the majority. Save the bandwith! -fred- -- Fred C! PGP-KeyID: E7EA02EC3B487

Re: Why not a DVD iso version too?

2008-03-16 Thread Fred C
Same for me I have never uploaded the CD2 and 3. Ok, maybe once long time ago when I was young and the FreeBSD version was 4.xx. I install the os from the CD1 and then I install everything I need from ports. -fred- On Mar 16, 2008, at 11:17 AM, Glen Barber wrote: Miguel Mayol i Tur

Re: hardware information

2008-03-07 Thread Fred C
Thank you all, that exactly what I needed. -fred- On Mar 7, 2008, at 12:43 PM, beni wrote: On Friday 07 March 2008 20:08:29 Fred C wrote: I have one of my disks over heating and I would like to monitor the disk temperature. Is there any way to get the disk S.M.A.R.T information on FreeBSD

hardware information

2008-03-07 Thread Fred C
I have one of my disks over heating and I would like to monitor the disk temperature. Is there any way to get the disk S.M.A.R.T information on FreeBSD? -fred- -- Fred C! PGP-KeyID: E7EA02EC3B487EE9 PGP-FingerPrint: A906101E2CCDBB18D7BD09AEE7EA02EC3B487EE9

Re: Manually opening TCP ports

2008-03-07 Thread Fred C
You can do that with bash. Ex: $ cat http://blogmag.net/blog/read/49/Network_programing_with_bash -fred- On Mar 6, 2008, at 11:47 PM, Siraj Shaikh wrote: Hello I am just wondering if there is a utility (or any feature in FreeBSD) that allows me to manually open a TCP port on a machine. I

Re: Postfix port broken?

2008-03-03 Thread Fred Condo
5-vda-ng.patch.gz 191 PATCH_DIST_STRIP= -p1 192 .endif make config would enable you to turn off virtual delivery agent. I'm not a postfix expert, but I believe VDA is only needed if you run virtual domains. fred On Mar 2, 2008, at 2:57 AM, Ezat wrote: Hello all, Not sure

Re: Daylight Savings time

2008-03-02 Thread Fred C
tzsetup(8) to update /etc/localtime. -- Erik Trulsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " -- Fred

Re: FreeBSD bind performance in FreeBSD 7

2008-02-29 Thread Fred C
very badly. Here the problem is the same. For your everyday home desktop machine any low end network card is fine. But when you want to handle several thousand connections per seconds you need some some hardware who can handle it. -- Fred C! PGP-KeyID: E7EA02EC3B487EE9 PGP-Finger

Re: two ntpd

2008-02-15 Thread Fred Condo
On Feb 15, 2008, at 9:24 AM, ivan dimitrov wrote: Hi list, is it normal to have two ntpds? 767 ?? Ss 0:37.28 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ ntpd.pid 844 ?? S 0:00.95 /usr/sbin/ntpd -c /etc/ntp.conf -p /var/run/ ntpd.pid Regards Ivan No: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$

Re: console server using a modern 1U box

2008-01-03 Thread Fred C
Do you know where I can find more information about comserv. In the port directory the pkg-descr file point to http://www.bsdhome.com/comserv/ which return a 404 error and the website is about bats homes. -fred- On Jan 3, 2008, at 3:38 AM, Philip Brown wrote: have a look at xyplex 1600

Re: Moving user/group databases

2007-09-07 Thread Fred Condo
On Sep 7, 2007, at 2:51 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:52 PM 9/7/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All of my FreeBSD servers boot from CD, and we are going to be having several temporary employees coming and going over the next 6-12 months. Is it possible to move the user/group databases f

Booting GELI from CD...

2007-06-07 Thread Fred Davidson
ing grub instead of #cdboot? the main reason is I want to take advantage of #menu.lst to choose between OSes when booting from the #CD. I'll also try all of this with /boot/cdboot to #see if I can just get it to work. In the mean time, #ideas? -Fred [1]a. events.ccc.de/congress/2

Re: Loader can't read USB drive @ boot

2007-06-06 Thread Fred Davidson
--- Jerry McAllister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 09:16:35AM -0700, Fred > Davidson wrote: > > > Well I was having this problem with GRUB which > someone > > helped me with. Now Grub will boot my USB key and > > load load

Loader can't read USB drive @ boot

2007-06-05 Thread Fred Davidson
f the specific USB stick I'm using, and that there's something different about different sticks? Do these little sticks really have firmware? You ponder that, I'm gonna go drop some cash on a new USB stick, ho

Re: GRUB / boot easy problems w / USB stick

2007-06-05 Thread Fred Davidson
normally I have double checked that the #bsdlabels, filesystems, and required files are at #least present on the key. # I'll keep learning the intimate details of various #config files, and loader commands, and post back if I #find a solution. Thanks again for

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