Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-17 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 15 Sep 2011 10:04:31 + (GMT), Thomas Mueller mueller6727 wrote: I can't really see the rationale for putting / and /usr on separate partitions. The idea is that even if /usr partition gets some problems (e. g. filesystem defects), / will be enough to bring the system up in SUM, and

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-15 Thread f92902
There is nothing wrong with having / and /usr on separate partitions; in fact, there are some mild advantages to fine-grained partitioning for folks who pay attention to their filesystem space usage. To elaborate on this: Assuming you have separate /var, /tmp, /usr and /home partitions, the

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-15 Thread Thomas Mueller mueller6727
I can't really see the rationale for putting / and /usr on separate partitions. Swap would go on a different partition because it does not use the same file system. I like to put /home on a separate partition, and don't like the idea of /usr/home. I also don't like to put /var and /tmp on

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thanks bud. On 9/15/2011 5:19 AM, f92...@hushmail.com wrote: There is nothing wrong with having / and /usr on separate partitions; in fact, there are some mild advantages to fine-grained partitioning for folks who pay attention to their filesystem space usage. To elaborate on this: Assuming

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-15 Thread Jonathan Vomacka
Thanks again Matthew On 9/14/2011 2:55 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 14/09/2011 19:31, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: In regards to partitioning, I have a question regarding a rumor that has been told to me by various different linux experts, and I

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-14 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: In regards to partitioning, I have a question regarding a rumor that has been told to me by various different linux experts, and I wanted to confirm if this also takes place with FreeBSD Unix. In the past, I have always had the root

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 Partition Sizing question

2011-09-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 14/09/2011 19:31, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Sep 14, 2011, at 11:27 AM, Jonathan Vomacka wrote: In regards to partitioning, I have a question regarding a rumor that has been told to me by various different linux experts, and I wanted to confirm if this also takes place with FreeBSD Unix. In

Re: freebsd-update, fetch once upgrade many machines

2011-08-23 Thread Paul Schenkeveld
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:10:30PM +0200, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: Hi, Is it possible to fetch files needed for freebsd-update once and put them on a local fileserver to update many machines? Thanks for the pointers on how to set up my own build servers for freebsd-update but I'm not really

Re: freebsd-update, fetch once upgrade many machines

2011-08-23 Thread Lars Eighner
On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 04:10:30PM +0200, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: Hi, Is it possible to fetch files needed for freebsd-update once and put them on a local fileserver to update many machines? Thanks for the pointers on how to set up my own build

Re: freebsd-update, fetch once upgrade many machines

2011-08-23 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 23/08/2011 16:26, Paul Schenkeveld wrote: Thanks for the pointers on how to set up my own build servers for freebsd-update but I'm not really interested in building locally, I just want to mirror the releases and patches that we're interested in locally and point freebsd-update at my local

Re: freebsd-update, fetch once upgrade many machines

2011-08-19 Thread Peter Andreev
2011/8/19 Paul Schenkeveld free...@psconsult.nl: Hi, Is it possible to fetch files needed for freebsd-update once and put them on a local fileserver to update many machines? You can use http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/projects/freebsd-update-server/ The reason for asking is that all

RE: freebsd-update, fetch once upgrade many machines

2011-08-19 Thread Johan Hendriks
Hi, Is it possible to fetch files needed for freebsd-update once and put them on a local fileserver to update many machines? The reason for asking is that all these machines are on secure networks and are not allowed to have Internet access but can all access a common fileserver (using FTP,

Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-11 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 10, 2011 6:42:58 PM -0700, Michael Sierchio is alleged to have said: man freebsd-update --As for the rest, it is mine. That doesn't help with the question being asked. The question is 'Will there be updates (as necessary) for this version of the OS in the future?'.

Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-11 Thread Howard Jones
On 11/08/2011 12:37, Daniel Staal wrote: (Well, ok, given the current release structure having an update today means you are in a supported branch, and that supported branch will continue to get updates for the foreseeable future. But that still does not tell me when the branch is likely to

Re: [freebsd-questions] FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-11 Thread Ruben de Groot
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 12:45:23PM +0100, Howard Jones typed: On 11/08/2011 12:37, Daniel Staal wrote: (Well, ok, given the current release structure having an update today means you are in a supported branch, and that supported branch will continue to get updates for the foreseeable

Re: FreeBSD WIFI USB adapter

2011-08-11 Thread Jerry
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:27:29 - b...@taiotoshi.org articulated: Folks: I have a Dell XPS Studio laptop with a broadcom wifi adapter built in. I've had no luck trying to compile in the BWI option into the kernel to get it to work and think that buying a cheap usb WIFI adapter is the

Re: FreeBSD WIFI USB adapter

2011-08-11 Thread Pierre-Luc Drouin
Isn't the Intel 3000 AGN supported by FreeBSD? I thought it was? On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 1:27 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: On Thu, 11 Aug 2011 16:27:29 - b...@taiotoshi.org articulated: Folks: I have a Dell XPS Studio laptop with a broadcom wifi adapter built in. I've had no

Re: FreeBSD WIFI USB adapter

2011-08-11 Thread Christian Barthel
On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:27:29PM -, b...@taiotoshi.org wrote: Folks: I have a Dell XPS Studio laptop with a broadcom wifi adapter built in. I've had no luck trying to compile in the BWI option into the kernel to get it to work and think that buying a cheap usb WIFI adapter is the

Re: FreeBSD WIFI USB adapter

2011-08-11 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Christian Barthel wrote: On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 04:27:29PM -, b...@taiotoshi.org wrote: Folks: I have a Dell XPS Studio laptop with a broadcom wifi adapter built in. I've had no luck trying to compile in the BWI option into the kernel to get it to work and think that

Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-10 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:26 PM, Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA USARPAC wrote: How do I know as an admin of my FreeBSD server that the version I am running is supported via automated fashion? I'm trying to find a way to do this through a script of sorts so that when the date comes, I'm

Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-10 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of August 10, 2011 1:26:10 PM -1000, Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA USARPAC is alleged to have said: How do I know as an admin of my FreeBSD server that the version I am running is supported via automated fashion? I'm trying to find a way to do this through a script of sorts so that when

RE: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-10 Thread Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA USARPAC
- From: Daniel Staal [mailto:dst...@usa.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2011 3:21 PM To: Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA USARPAC; 'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org' Subject: Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED) --As of August 10, 2011 1:26:10 PM -1000, Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA USARPAC

Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-10 Thread Michael Sierchio
man freebsd-update On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 6:21 PM, Daniel Staal dst...@usa.net wrote: --As of August 10, 2011 1:26:10 PM -1000, Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA USARPAC is alleged to have said: How do I know as an admin of my FreeBSD server that the version I am running is supported via

Re: FreeBSD supported versions (UNCLASSIFIED)

2011-08-10 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Wright, Jonathon Mr CTR US USA USARPAC jonathon.wri...@us.army.mil wrote: Classification: UNCLASSIFIED Caveats: FOUO TWIMC, How do I know as an admin of my FreeBSD server that the version I am running is supported via automated fashion? In my experience

Re: FreeBSD won't install after Fixit [solved]

2011-08-09 Thread James Colannino
On 08/09/11 13:08, James Colannino wrote: Hey everyone, I have the FreeBSD DVD (amd64) and, during an install, used the Fixit option (while choosing to mount the DVD as the live filesystem) to load a kernel module. After exiting the fixit shell and attempting a standard install, when it

Re: freebsd ARP problem

2011-08-03 Thread Peter Andreev
Eugenie I didn't understand your question, so I ask you for some clarification. 3 августа 2011 г. 17:19 пользователь Коньков Евгений kes-...@yandex.ru написал: Hi, all. I delete IP address from one server and add it to this one. You moved IP address from one server to second one. Right? But

Re: [freebsd-questions] Maintenance script/port

2011-07-21 Thread Howard Jones
On 21/07/2011 09:25, Jos Chrispijn wrote: Can someone recommend me a text driven maintenance (re)port that informs me about the health of my FreeBSD system? I currently use the standard BSD report information, but like to get more information out of my partitions, OS etc. This program should

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

2011-07-18 Thread Howard Jones
On 18/07/2011 11:14, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: I'm the one...using Linux since '99 (SuSE, Gentoo,Arch) and moved to PCBSD-9.0 some months ago. I'm *very* happy and cannot believe how little time I spend doing admin work 'cause the OS 'just works'. Otoh, Linux was saga with *constant*

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

2011-07-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Howard Jones ho...@thingy.com wrote: On 18/07/2011 11:14, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: Interesting - I'm in the process of switching our FreeBSD servers to Linux (Debian and CentOS), to get away from the packaging/ports mess :-) I've been spoilt by apt-get and

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

2011-07-18 Thread Howard Jones
On 18/07/2011 19:18, Adam Vande More wrote: On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 5:24 AM, Howard Jones ho...@thingy.com mailto:ho...@thingy.com wrote: On 18/07/2011 11:14, Gour-Gadadhara Dasa wrote: Interesting - I'm in the process of switching our FreeBSD servers to Linux (Debian and CentOS),

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: FreeBSD 64 Bit Applications

2011-06-30 Thread krad
On 30 June 2011 09:06, John Dakos gda...@enovation.gr wrote: Hello all. I have a question about FreeBSD 64Bit Applications I want to install FreeBSD 64 Bit to have most memory10 GB ram or up , and to make more stable. My questions is .is FreeBSD 64 Bit stable and Rock

Re: FreeBSD 64 Bit Applications

2011-06-30 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Em Qui, 2011-06-30 às 11:06 +0300, John Dakos escreveu: For me I am very satisfied with the 8.2R P2 64bit. I run about 50-60 servers 24/7 in mission critic applications using ZFS, with a mix of ISP, databases (postgresql, firebird...), large asterisk IP centrals, vpn servers (400 vpns...), and

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-25 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
Op 23-6-2011 9:35 schreef Valentin Bud: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl mailto:d...@nagual.nl wrote: OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an ufs /boot is very very easy using the PC-BSD DVD. However, I have one question:

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-25 Thread Valentin Bud
On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:39 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: ** Op 23-6-2011 9:35 schreef Valentin Bud: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an ufs /boot is very very easy using the

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-25 Thread Damien Fleuriot
On 25 Jun 2011, at 16:39, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: Op 23-6-2011 9:35 schreef Valentin Bud: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl mailto:d...@nagual.nl wrote: OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an ufs /boot is very

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-23 Thread Valentin Bud
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 10:01 PM, Dick Hoogendijk d...@nagual.nl wrote: OK, it works very well. Installing a ZFS FreeBSD system with an ufs /boot is very very easy using the PC-BSD DVD. However, I have one question: I'd like to install FreeBSD (pcbsd) on a (zfs) mirror In OpenSolaris you

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-23 Thread krad
On 23 June 2011 02:38, Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: On 22 Jun 2011, at 22:22, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 June 2011 21:23, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: On 21/06/2011 20:01, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'd like to install FreeBSD (pcbsd) on a (zfs)

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Should we send in a send-pr to edit src/etc/motd ? PR it. Sounds good. Thanks. Done. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=158238 Now it'll need a commiter. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey, BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Reply below, not above;

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:03:23 +0200 Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: Hi questions@ Robert Simmons articulated: There seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to these lists that keep spamming it periodically, snip I think we should: make questions@

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread C. P. Ghost
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:44 PM, Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: It is my personal view that FreeBSD-Questions should be consolidated into the chat forum. Chat forums are rarely moderated and tend to be open to the general public. Some of us have workflows that favor e-mail over those

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread Robert Simmons
On Thursday, June 23, 2011 08:10:29 PM Randy Pratt wrote: I don't think making a list writable only to subscribers solves anything since it seems the spammers are already subscribed. This only makes it difficult for others like myself who read the lists online and only post occasionally.

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-23 Thread Randy Pratt
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 22:14:55 -0400 Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, June 23, 2011 08:10:29 PM Randy Pratt wrote: I don't think making a list writable only to subscribers solves anything since it seems the spammers are already subscribed. This only makes it difficult

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-22 Thread Warren Block
On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 06:03:23 PM Julian H. Stacey wrote: The traffic on questions@ has now become very heavy. Traffic too heavy in fact, a mess of themes, Some traffic would be better posted to hackers@ or current@ or

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-22 Thread Frank Bonnet
On 06/22/2011 08:31 AM, Warren Block wrote: On Tue, 21 Jun 2011, Robert Simmons wrote: On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 06:03:23 PM Julian H. Stacey wrote: The traffic on questions@ has now become very heavy. Traffic too heavy in fact, a mess of themes, Some traffic would be better posted

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-22 Thread krad
On 21 June 2011 21:23, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: On 21/06/2011 20:01, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'd like to install FreeBSD (pcbsd) on a (zfs) mirror In OpenSolaris you can install directly to the zfs mirror, but how's this in this situation After all, an UFS

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-22 Thread krad
ps you dont need the ufs file system just go zfs root. For recovery have a full install of bsd on a pen drive. On 22 June 2011 21:22, krad kra...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 June 2011 21:23, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.ukwrote: On 21/06/2011 20:01, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'd

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 23:52:23 -0400 Robert Simmons articulated: Who is the admin for freebsd-quesitons and freebsd-security? There seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to these lists that keep spamming it periodically, or in the case of freebsd-security actually don't exist

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 07:44:16 AM Jerry wrote: You have voiced a concern that has been voiced here several times in the past. Unfortunately, this is an open list; ie, anyone subscribed or not can post. This leads to the inevitable problems that plague this forum. I have tried contacting

Re: FreeBSD ZFS system

2011-06-21 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 21/06/2011 20:01, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: I'd like to install FreeBSD (pcbsd) on a (zfs) mirror In OpenSolaris you can install directly to the zfs mirror, but how's this in this situation After all, an UFS partitin is also created. How can I get the equivalent of an OpenSolaris mirrored

Re: FreeBSD reports incorrect amount of memory

2011-06-21 Thread Brian Seklecki (Mobile)
trying to use memory that isn't there? How do I debug/fix this? Just curious, what was memtest86+ report? Can you install dmidecode(8) from /usr/ports/sysutils/dmidecode I'd be very suprised if GCC started misbehaving during compile ~BAS Didn't find anything with google.

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi questions@ Robert Simmons articulated: There seems to be a few email addresses that are subscribed to these lists that keep spamming it periodically, je...@seibercom.net wrote: Now, if this forum were conducted under the same restraints that the Postfix forums(2) adhere to, the

Re: FreeBSD paid support

2011-06-21 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Daniel Staal wrote: On Mon, June 20, 2011 3:35 am, Dennis Perisa wrote: Hi guys, Are there paid support services available for FreeBSD? If provided by a 3rd party, can you name or even recommend a few? I haven't tried any, so I can't make recommendations, but the FreeBSD website has

Re: FreeBSD reports incorrect amount of memory

2011-06-21 Thread Dieter BSD
# dmidecode 2.11 SMBIOS 2.2 present. Handle 0x0005, DMI type 5, 24 bytes Memory Controller Information        Error Detecting Method: 64-bit ECC        Error Correcting Capabilities:                None        Supported Interleave: One-way Interleave        Current Interleave: One-way

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:03 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote: I'm against merging chat@ questions@, don't believe it will happen        Lists for different purposes, but even if questions@ people        might come to a consensus in favour of merging, lots of        people on

Re: FreeBSD reports incorrect amount of memory

2011-06-21 Thread perryh
Dieter BSD dieter...@engineer.com wrote: Machine has been running FreeBSD/amd64 with 2 GiB of memory. I just installed a 2nd 2 GiB of memory for 4 GiB total. FreeBSD thinks it now has 32 GiB ??? FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #22: Tue Jun ??7 12:37:21 PDT 2011 CPU: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3000+

Re: freebsd list admins?

2011-06-21 Thread Robert Simmons
On Tuesday, June 21, 2011 06:03:23 PM Julian H. Stacey wrote: The traffic on questions@ has now become very heavy. Traffic too heavy in fact, a mess of themes, Some traffic would be better posted to hackers@ or current@ or other more specialist lists Also, one place that

Re: FreeBSD paid support

2011-06-20 Thread Mehmet Erol Sanliturk
On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 3:35 AM, Dennis Perisa dennis.per...@gmail.comwrote: Hi guys, Are there paid support services available for FreeBSD? If provided by a 3rd party, can you name or even recommend a few? Regards Dennis_ Please see : http://www.ixsystems.com/bsdsupport Thank you

Re: FreeBSD paid support

2011-06-20 Thread Daniel Staal
On Mon, June 20, 2011 3:35 am, Dennis Perisa wrote: Hi guys, Are there paid support services available for FreeBSD? If provided by a 3rd party, can you name or even recommend a few? I haven't tried any, so I can't make recommendations, but the FreeBSD website has a listing:

Re: FreeBSD on IBM 3630

2011-06-14 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Peter Toth wrote: Anyone is running IBM 3630 out there with FreeBSD? Short: Try Harder ;-) Medium: If one ask a better question, one gets better answers. Long: You may improve responses by adding eg: - Why you want to know Thinking of buying or selling ? Got it working

Re: FreeBSD on IBM 3630

2011-06-14 Thread Chris Hill
On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Peter Toth wrote: Anyone is running IBM 3630 out there with FreeBSD? Short: Try Harder ;-) Medium: If one ask a better question, one gets better answers. Well said. I misread the subject at first, and thought the OP was asking about running

Re: FreeBSD on IBM 3630

2011-06-14 Thread Peter Toth
On 06/15/11 10:34, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Peter Toth wrote: Anyone is running IBM 3630 out there with FreeBSD? Short:Try Harder ;-) Medium: If one ask a better question, one gets better answers. Long: You may improve responses by adding eg: - Why you want to know

Re: freebsd-update 7.0-7.4 problem: rmdir Directory not empty

2011-06-04 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 10:21:13AM -0400, Brent Bloxam wrote: I'm going through the freebsd-update process to move from 7.0 to 7.4. I followed the handbook, rebooted to GENERIC and followed up with `freebsd-update install` and got the following output: # freebsd-update install Installing

Re: FreeBSD Questions off line?

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Brennan
On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 4:01 PM, Al Plant n...@hdk5.net wrote: Aloha, I havent seen any FreeBSD questions on line for 2 days. Any body have any knowledge about this? Well, it's not offline, your mail came though just fine ... maybe no one has sent anything? -- A: Yes. Q: Are you sure? A:

Re: FreeBSD Questions off line?

2011-06-02 Thread Noel
The archives show 30+ messages yesterday and today. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2011-June/date.html Check your mail server, your subscription, etc. -- Noel Jones On 6/2/2011 3:01 PM, Al Plant wrote: Aloha, I havent seen any FreeBSD questions on line for 2 days.

Re: FreeBSD Python version

2011-05-25 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 25 May 2011 07:58:56 +0300 Patrick Brookings patr...@icebluehost.com articulated: Hello, Can you please tell me what standard version of Python comes with the latest FreeBSD? And also, is it possible to upgrade to a newer version without breaking other functionalities? I am

Re: FreeBSD Python version

2011-05-25 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 25/05/2011 05:58, Patrick Brookings wrote: Can you please tell me what standard version of Python comes with the latest FreeBSD? And also, is it possible to upgrade to a newer version without breaking other functionalities? python doesn't come as standard with FreeBSD. It's an add-on

Re: FreeBSD Python version

2011-05-25 Thread Daniel Bye
On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 07:58:56AM +0300, Patrick Brookings wrote: Hello, Can you please tell me what standard version of Python comes with the latest FreeBSD? And also, is it possible to upgrade to a newer version without breaking other functionalities? FreeBSD doesn't have Python

Re: FreeBSD Python version

2011-05-25 Thread Modulok
On 5/24/11, Patrick Brookings patr...@icebluehost.com wrote: Hello, Can you please tell me what standard version of Python comes with the latest FreeBSD? And also, is it possible to upgrade to a newer version without breaking other functionalities? I am asking because more and more scripts

Re: FreeBSD upgrade from 7.4 Stable to 8.2

2011-05-22 Thread krad
On 22 May 2011 10:30, Jos Chrispijn ker...@webrz.net wrote: Just read that a save upgrade from my current 7.4 version would be easy by performing: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RELEASE # freebsd-update install # shutdown -r now # freebsd-update install Are there any pitfalls to this?

Re: FreeBSD upgrade from 7.4 Stable to 8.2

2011-05-22 Thread Michael Powell
Jos Chrispijn wrote: Just read that a save upgrade from my current 7.4 version would be easy by performing: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RELEASE # freebsd-update install # shutdown -r now # freebsd-update install Are there any pitfalls to this? I only have done the src methods,

Re: FreeBSD upgrade from 7.4 Stable to 8.2

2011-05-22 Thread Daniel Staal
--As of May 22, 2011 11:30:57 AM +0200, Jos Chrispijn is alleged to have said: Just read that a save upgrade from my current 7.4 version would be easy by performing: # freebsd-update upgrade -r 8.2-RELEASE # freebsd-update install # shutdown -r now # freebsd-update install Are there any

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-20 Thread Dave
On 19 May 2011 at 11:59, Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 19, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Erik N=F8rgaard wrote: It indicates that they put faster RAM into the box, but ran it at a speed of 533MHz, which is slower than the memory is capable of running. In some cases, doing this lets you run the RAM at

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-20 Thread TJ Varghese
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Erik Nørgaard norga...@locolomo.orgwrote: Hi: I am looking for a new low power mini-itx board for my firewall/home server. I've had VIA boards but flacky disk controller and other problems have made me look for something else. So, going all Intel, I hope

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-19 Thread perryh
Erik N?rgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: ... what is Serial Presence Detect RAM? SPD refers to an I2C device mounted on (most) DIMMS, which provides the BIOS with the DIMM's size and speed properties. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 19, 2011, at 11:46 AM, Erik Nørgaard wrote: It indicates that they put faster RAM into the box, but ran it at a speed of 533MHz, which is slower than the memory is capable of running. In some cases, doing this lets you run the RAM at lower voltage or with tighter timing settings of

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-19 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- [ Perry gave a good answer to the last question; I'll try to hit some of the earlier ones. :-) ] On May 19, 2011, at 12:23 AM, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Erik N?rgaard norga...@locolomo.org wrote: Mobile Intel 945GSE Express Chipset Intel 82945GSE Express Chipset Graphics/Memory

Re: FreeBSD compatible mini-itx board

2011-05-19 Thread Erik Nørgaard
On 19/5/11 7:49 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: FreeBSD ought to support the 945G chipset and the ICH7 hub; also the RealTek NIC, but the latter isn't the highest quality NIC around. yeah, I'd rather have Intels own NIC dunno why they can't put them on their own boards. Realtek seem to be on all

Re: FreeBSD 8.2 and Lenovo X300 WWAN Modem

2011-05-18 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 11:40:36AM +0200, crsnet.pl wrote: Hello. Have here anyone run this modem/GPS under FreeBSD 8.2 ? Modem is recognized, but when i try to run ppp -ddial iplus i get this error : /var/log/messages May 18 11:20:59 x60s ppp[1656]: tun0: Warning: Chat script failed

Re: FreeBSD 7.4-STABLE server behind an isa server

2011-05-18 Thread George Liaskos
On Wed, May 18, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Jack Raats j...@jarasoft.net wrote: I am setting up a FreeBSD 7.4 server behind an ISA server. The purpose of this server is to serve as an intranet web server. But I would like to update the ports of course. I have a login and password for the isa server. I

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2011-05-13 Thread Mike Seda
Hi All, If I install FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT, I will be able to upgrade to FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE (once available) via the freebsd-update utility, right? That's what I'm getting from the following link: http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/relnotes/upgrade.html BTW, does anyone know of any major

Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE

2011-05-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 13, 2011, at 11:29 AM, Mike Seda wrote: If I install FreeBSD-9.0-CURRENT, I will be able to upgrade to FreeBSD-9.0-RELEASE (once available) via the freebsd-update utility, right? There isn't a supported RELENG_9 branch, yet. Once it exists, it is likely that you could use

ZFS Deduplication (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE)

2011-05-13 Thread Mike Seda
All, Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can leverage ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server. What is the best (most stable) way to get this functionality at the moment? Should I just install FreeBSD-8.2-RELEASE and then apply the

Re: ZFS Deduplication (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE)

2011-05-13 Thread Chuck Swiger
On May 13, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Mike Seda wrote: Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can leverage ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server. What is the best (most stable) way to get this functionality at the moment? By definition, HEAD

Re: ZFS Deduplication (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE)

2011-05-13 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Mike Seda mas...@stanford.edu wrote: All, Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can leverage ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server. What is the best (most stable) way to get this functionality at the

Re: ZFS Deduplication (was Re: FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE)

2011-05-13 Thread Mike Seda
On 05/13/2011 02:20 PM, Chuck Swiger wrote: On May 13, 2011, at 1:47 PM, Mike Seda wrote: Currently, I'm really only interested in using FreeBSD so that I can leverage ZFS Deduplication (available in ZFS v21 and higher) on one server. What is the best (most stable) way to get this

Re: freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 362, Issue 7

2011-05-12 Thread gs_stol...@juno.com
I had to do this same thing over 10 years ago, once at work and once at home. At home, I copies ksh and gave it root privileges so it could do the suid . At work, a root person lent me the use of a binary program (with root privileges) that I used to execute ksh (I believe). My memory

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-08 Thread Gökşin Akdeniz
Those error messages are due to GTK interface of Xscreensaver configuration tool which can be called with xscreensaver-demo If you want xscreensaver start when user type command startx simply edit the .xinitrc file. Sample configuration is for a fluxbox windows manager and Xscreensaver.

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-08 Thread pwnedomina
Em 08-05-2011 03:10, Polytropon escreveu: On Sun, 08 May 2011 02:59:11 +0100, pwnedominapwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: man xscreensaver dont display information about fluxbox wm. Of course not. :-) You need to consult the documentation of fluxbox in order to find out how to integrate it (if

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-08 Thread pwnedomina
Em 08-05-2011 10:27, Gökşin Akdeniz escreveu: Those error messages are due to GTK interface of Xscreensaver configuration tool which can be called with xscreensaver-demo If you want xscreensaver start when user type command startx simply edit the .xinitrc file. Sample configuration is for a

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-08 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 08 May 2011 03:18:31 +0100, pwnedomina pwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: ive added an entry to .xinitrc # Start the screensaver daemon xscreensaver -no-splash but i cant get into work. what is wrong? I think you need to configure the screensaver for the first time, so a configuration

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Eitan Adler
On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:12 AM, pwnedomina pwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: there is any logon screen manager for freebsd? sometimes computer is idle for sometime and i would like to add a logon screen in it.. I'm guessing you mean a screen locker for X, not a logon screen. Take a look at

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:17:12AM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:12 AM, pwnedomina pwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: there is any logon screen manager for freebsd? sometimes computer is idle for sometime and i would like to add a logon screen in it.. I'm guessing you mean

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread pwnedomina
Em 07-05-2011 14:15, Chad Perrin escreveu: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:17:12AM -0400, Eitan Adler wrote: On Sat, May 7, 2011 at 9:12 AM, pwnedominapwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: there is any logon screen manager for freebsd? sometimes computer is idle for sometime and i would like to add a logon

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:40:56PM +0100, pwnedomina wrote: how can i configure slock to work properly? It should just work. You can either trigger it by entering the slock command in a terminal emulator or by setting up a keyboard shortcut, desktop icon, whatever, in your window manager of

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread pwnedomina
Em 07-05-2011 21:58, Chad Perrin escreveu: On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 09:40:56PM +0100, pwnedomina wrote: how can i configure slock to work properly? It should just work. You can either trigger it by entering the slock command in a terminal emulator or by setting up a keyboard shortcut, desktop

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 07 May 2011 23:26:21 +0100, pwnedomina pwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: i cant get into work, if i enter the slock command in the terminal it just show a black screen. I think that's what it's intended to do. If you need a screensaver (including locking functionality) you may be interested

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 12:54:21AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 07 May 2011 23:26:21 +0100, pwnedomina pwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: i cant get into work, if i enter the slock command in the terminal it just show a black screen. I think that's what it's intended to do. Yes, that's what

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread pwnedomina
Em 08-05-2011 00:24, Chad Perrin escreveu: On Sun, May 08, 2011 at 12:54:21AM +0200, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 07 May 2011 23:26:21 +0100, pwnedominapwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: i cant get into work, if i enter the slock command in the terminal it just show a black screen. I think that's what

Re: FreeBSD logon screen

2011-05-07 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 08 May 2011 02:00:26 +0100, pwnedomina pwnedom...@gmail.com wrote: ive found xscreensaver more usefull. but how can i get in to work every time Xorg starts? should i add an entry to .xinitrc? what should be done? This - or an entry to ~/.xsession (depends). As far as I remember,

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