virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear all, Is there a FBSD command to manage virtual memory? I think my swap size is now a bit too much used: last pid: 19824; load averages: 0.06, 0.05, 0.02 up 50+10:00:17 08:54:00 230 processes: 1 running, 227 sleeping, 2 zombie CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.4% system, 0.8%

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 08:57:27AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, Is there a FBSD command to manage virtual memory? I think my swap size is now a bit too much used: last pid: 19824; load averages: 0.06, 0.05, 0.02 up 50+10:00:17 08:54:00 230 processes: 1 running, 227

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello again, The swap size usage grow so big probably because I started wget to download an iso image and then WinSCP to grab it from the FBSD machine to my laptop. When I started wget, the swap usage was around 19% and had been like that for many days. That should not cause such a thing

Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet

2007-01-20 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 12:47 AM Subject: Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet I doubt there is any reasonably priced ISP that will help in troubleshooting a problem that's

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:13:48AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello again, The swap size usage grow so big probably because I started wget to download an iso image and then WinSCP to grab it from the FBSD machine to my laptop. When I started wget, the swap usage was around 19% and

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 03:51:38AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 09:13:48AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello again, The swap size usage grow so big probably because I started wget to download an iso image and then WinSCP to grab it from the FBSD machine to

Re: Flash 9

2007-01-20 Thread Octavian Covalschi
Rico Secada wrote: On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:26:15 +0200 octix [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rico Secada wrote: On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 10:37:10 +0600 Bachilo Dmitry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Don't you guys know? There would not be any sound, because linux flash 9 uses ALSA, not OSS.

Why I can't get Wide screen with Intel graphics

2007-01-20 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
Hello, This is Laptop Dell 6400 1505E laptop with intel graphics. 6.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jan 18 21:41:51 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN i386 agp0: Intel 82945GM (945GM GMCH) SVGA controller port 0xeff8-0xefff mem

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
hal wrote: 6.2-STABLE zdump -v -c 2008 MST7MDT MST7MDT Sun Mar 11 08:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 01:59:59 2007 MST isdst=0 gmtoff=-25200 MST7MDT Sun Mar 11 09:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 2007 MDT isdst=1 gmtoff=-21600 MST7MDT Sun Nov 4 07:59:59 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4

slib-guile problems when installing port

2007-01-20 Thread Dino Vliet
Folks, I have this problem when trying to install the port slib-guile: === Checking if lang/slib-guile already installed /bin/ln -shf /usr/local/share/slib /usr/local/share/guile/1.6/slib cd /usr/local/share/guile/1.6/slib /usr/local/bin/guile -q -l guile.init -c (require 'new-catalog)

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear Kris and all, I see lots of them; every one in that list is contributinig. If you add up all those process sizes you'll see where the space is going. By which I mean the difference between size and res, which indicates the amount of process memory allocated but not currently resident

apache exiting on signal 6

2007-01-20 Thread Joe Auty
Hello, I've seen a lot of information on Google about this error message I've been seeing a lot of in my logs: pid 11443 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 pid 11454 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 pid 11447 (httpd), uid 80: exited on signal 6 pid 11442 (httpd), uid 80: exited on

Re: apache exiting on signal 6

2007-01-20 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Forgot to mention, I'm using Apache with the prefork MPM. On Jan 20, 2007, at 5:16 AM, Joe Auty wrote: Hello, I've seen a lot of information on Google about this error message I've been seeing a lot of in my logs: pid 11443 (httpd), uid 80:

Re: SSH2 question?

2007-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
VeeJay wrote: Hello I have two questions, please comment... 1. Can one user have more than one public_keys i.e. multiple public_keys? Yes. If yes to above, would all be stored at users path like /home/username/.ssh That would be the usual way of doing things, but there is no restriction

Re: apache exiting on signal 6

2007-01-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Joe Auty wrote: I've also seen some info which suggests that this might be an Apache bug of some sort, but I've seen this in both Apache 1.3 and 2.0. Right now, I'm running 2.0.59 with eAccelerator. I guess the next step might be to try disabling eAccelerator... I'll let you know if this

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: The problem is I cannot add more RAM (too old machine to do that) but I know what to do to decrease the load a bit. So thanks for the pointer! I appreciate it! You might also want to stop using mod_php in apache and convert to fastcgi setup - this way you'll get all

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
hello, The problem is I cannot add more RAM (too old machine to do that) but I know what to do to decrease the load a bit. So thanks for the pointer! I appreciate it! You might also want to stop using mod_php in apache and convert to fastcgi setup - this way you'll get all Apache processes

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Saturday 20 January 2007 08:57, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Is there any way to handle swap size usage other than restarting the box? Yes, you can add swap while the system is running with swapon(8). If you don't have an empty partition available you could create one with mdconfig(8). -Pieter

Why does my machine give a panic?

2007-01-20 Thread Halid Faith
I used to use freebsd4.X. I didn't have any problem about it. After I reinstalled freebsd6.1 my server has started to given a panic. I am sure that the server's hardware is good. I ran kgdb on the server as below; # kgdb kernel.debug /var/crash/vmcore.0 [GDB will not be able to debug user-mode

Re: Why I can't get Wide screen with Intel graphics

2007-01-20 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
under the subsection of display, i have Modes 1024x768 maybe you can try using 1280x800 TFC On 1/20/07, Abdullah Al-Marrie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, This is Laptop Dell 6400 1505E laptop with intel graphics. 6.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jan 18 21:41:51 UTC 2007 [EMAIL

re: Why I can't get Wide screen with Intel graphics

2007-01-20 Thread Niek Dekker
Doorgestuurd bericht: This is Laptop Dell 6400 1505E laptop with intel graphics. 6.2-STABLE #0: Thu Jan 18 21:41:51 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ARABIAN i386 agp0: Intel 82945GM (945GM GMCH) SVGA controller port 0xeff8-0xefff mem

Re: slib-guile problems when installing port

2007-01-20 Thread Eric Schuele
On 01/20/2007 02:40, Dino Vliet wrote: Folks, I have this problem when trying to install the port slib-guile: === Checking if lang/slib-guile already installed /bin/ln -shf /usr/local/share/slib /usr/local/share/guile/1.6/slib cd /usr/local/share/guile/1.6/slib /usr/local/bin/guile -q -l

losf netstat bound port 100

2007-01-20 Thread Grant Peel
Hi all, Being going blind again looking for an answer to a seemingly simple question. I had a hung pop3 process (port 110), and killed it. netstat still shows 3 connections in the FIN_WAIT_2 state. lsof shows nothing (no connected processes). Is there a simple way to disconnect the hung

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Ivan Voras
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: hello, The problem is I cannot add more RAM (too old machine to do that) but I know what to do to decrease the load a bit. So thanks for the pointer! I appreciate it! You might also want to stop using mod_php in apache and convert to fastcgi setup - this way you'll

Re: Why I can't get Wide screen with Intel graphics

2007-01-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:38:36AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: under the subsection of display, i have Modes 1024x768 maybe you can try using 1280x800 in order to get the higher resolutions, you should probably install the port /usr/ports/sysutils/915resolution which redefines

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Javier Henderson
Your /etc/localtime is probably a copy of the old zoneinfo data, left over from a previous incarnation. My system at home is running 6.2-RELEASE: zdump -v /etc/localtime | more (...) /etc/localtime Sun Mar 31 06:59:59 1918 UTC = Sun Mar 31 01:59:59 1918 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000

Re: SSH2 question?

2007-01-20 Thread Derek Ragona
Yes different keys for different hosts, stored below their home directory. -Derek At 01:20 AM 1/20/2007, VeeJay wrote: Hello I have two questions, please comment... 1. Can one user have more than one public_keys i.e. multiple public_keys? If yes to above, would all be stored at

Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Bob
Hi: I Live with a very hairy, large, Main Coon cat called Tania; she sheds tons of fine hair all over the place. She is a Mouser, and proudly rids our home (a boat) of all sorts of mice. Unfortunately she also kills Computer mice! Therein lies my problem. I have been replacing mechanical mice

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Javier Henderson
On Jan 20, 2007, at 10:03 AM, Bob wrote: Anyone with experience using their optical mouse under FreeBSD? All input will be very much appreciated. Yes. I plugged it in, it just works. Not with a Radio Shack model, but with several others (Logitech, Microsoft, no-name $8 specials, etc).

Releng-6.2 upgrade HINT for iwi0 user !!

2007-01-20 Thread Hanno Krusken
Hi all, well this posting is send before, part of, the specific upgrade hint regarding the iwi0 driver ! now, FreeBSD-6.1-RELENG uses /usr/ports/net/iwi-firmware, but after the upgrade to FreeBSD-6.2-RELENG iwi0 will NOT work, you need to prefetch the port file

Re: apache exiting on signal 6

2007-01-20 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just FYI, disabling eAccelerator hasn't rid me of this problem. I am using PHP as an Apache module. I might look at using Fast CGI, or else simply ignore this problem. Is there a list somewhere of PHP apps that don't work with Fast CGI, or

Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Robert Huff
Bob writes: Anyone with experience using their optical mouse under FreeBSD? All input will be very much appreciated. I've used the MicroSoft Intellimouse Explorer and liked it. Will obviously work with Windows ... but be careful: sometimes MS puts out a new sub-generation that

Re: Problems with custom kernel fbsd 6.2

2007-01-20 Thread Lowell Gilbert
James Hein [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thanks for trying to help, but that didn't seem to be it. It did the same thing, with the same error. Can you think of anything else that may be wrong? I'm considering rebuilding it again with debugging on, and using script to output it to a log. It has

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Javier Henderson
On Jan 20, 2007, at 10:36 AM, Matthew Seaman wrote: Errr --- why are you looking at when daylight savings changes happened in 1918? Yeah, I noticed that after I sent the email. Duh. -jav ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: apache exiting on signal 6

2007-01-20 Thread Joe Holden
Joe Auty wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just FYI, disabling eAccelerator hasn't rid me of this problem. I am using PHP as an Apache module. I might look at using Fast CGI, or else simply ignore this problem. Is there a list somewhere of PHP apps that don't work with

Re: ssh public key authentification

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:53:23 -0600 Kirk Strauser wrote: Why not? Group write is plenty enough for someone else to replace the .ssh directory with another one, so sshd checks for that. To replace it with another 700 directory owned by the user, containing a 40= file also owned by the user?

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 19:00:18 -0500 Kris Kennaway wrote: That's a number indicating a version of FreeBSD. [link to handbook] Basically, it does not work on 6.1-RELEASE, so you should consider updating to 6.2-RELEASE. Bin there, done that. Was one of the first things I tried. Now running:

Re: Does Firefox run on the SPARC64 port of FreeBSD?

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:11:33 -0500 Michael Johnson wrote: I upgraded my sparc64 box today (7-CURRENT) and I do see Firefox segfaulting when starting now, I'm not sure what has changed in Firefox or FreeBSD yet, but I'll be looking for a fix in the coming days. Thanks! I'll be looking out for

Re: Password on command line with SCP

2007-01-20 Thread RW
On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:38:44 -0800 Don O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to pass the password for an SCP command via the command line as a switch? I'd like to embed SCP in a script and pass the password once through a command line input from the master script... By defauly

Re: SSH2 question?

2007-01-20 Thread VeeJay
Hello friends... I really appreciate for your kind help having one more question... can I jail a user being login via SSH/SFTP to an other location/directory than user's $HOME directory? meaing if users $HOME directory is like this /home/alex and user is able to chdir to upward...

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:03:22 -0500 Bob wrote: I Live with a very hairy, large, Main Coon cat called Tania; she sheds tons of fine hair all over the place. She is a Mouser, and proudly rids our home (a boat) of all sorts of mice. Unfortunately she also kills Computer mice! Therein lies my

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread RW
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:03:22 -0500 Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone with experience using their optical mouse under FreeBSD? All input will be very much appreciated. There are differences between individual models, but in general it doesn't matter whether it's optical or mechanical.

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:29:39 -0500 Robert Huff wrote: I've used the MicroSoft Intellimouse Explorer and liked it. Will obviously work with Windows ... but be careful: sometimes MS puts out a new sub-generation that changes the mouse protocol just enough to cause problems with the

Re: SSH2 question?

2007-01-20 Thread Derek Ragona
Yes I have used vsftpd from the ports to do just that. -Derek At 10:05 AM 1/20/2007, VeeJay wrote: Hello friends... I really appreciate for your kind help having one more question... can I jail a user being login via SSH/SFTP to an other location/directory than user's $HOME

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Matthew Seaman
Javier Henderson wrote: Your /etc/localtime is probably a copy of the old zoneinfo data, left over from a previous incarnation. My system at home is running 6.2-RELEASE: zdump -v /etc/localtime | more (...) /etc/localtime Sun Mar 31 06:59:59 1918 UTC = Sun Mar 31 01:59:59 1918 EST

samba3 - folders in share show up as 0-byte files (6.1 stable)

2007-01-20 Thread Steve Franks
Hi, Pretty much vanilla install as per the handbook. Had to change from smbpasswd to tdbpasswd to get it working, but that's the only non-standard operation I did. Title says it all. Thought it might be a permissions problem, but I can walk the whole tree when logged on to the freebsd box

Re: SSH2 question?

2007-01-20 Thread VeeJay
Right... But I am not running any FTP server. user is getting login by SSH/SFTP. would i have to change the user's login configruation or what? Thanks /VJ On 1/20/07, Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: VeeJay wrote: Hello I have two questions, please comment... 1. Can

Re: Problems with custom kernel fbsd 6.2

2007-01-20 Thread James Hein
Hello, it's me again. It turns out I'm just retarded and apparently illiterate on top of that. The problems were in the USB section. I had umass without scbus or da and I had ural without wlan. So, when I made the appropriate changes, it all worked. Thanks to all who offered input :-). I

Re: SATA II drives

2007-01-20 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On January 20, 2007 7:06:27 AM + [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Promise Tx4 SATA II card with a 1/4 terabyte SATA II Western digital drive. This drive has some free space, a windows partition and a Mepis 6.0 Linux partition. Will BSD work with a SATA II drive? Will it see the other

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 20 January 2007 10:13, RW wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 10:03:22 -0500 Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone with experience using their optical mouse under FreeBSD? All input will be very much appreciated. There are differences between individual models, but in general it doesn't

cant load OpenGL

2007-01-20 Thread deeptech71
How do I get OpenGL apps running in hardware mode? Specifically, Tremulous (pkg tremulous-1.1.0_1). Before configuring Xorg, the game ran only in software mode (refused to run in hardware mode). After configuring Xorg (with xorgconfig), the game tries to run in hardware mode, but has errors

Re: Why I can't get Wide screen with Intel graphics

2007-01-20 Thread Abdullah Al-Marrie
On 1/20/07, Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:38:36AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: under the subsection of display, i have Modes 1024x768 maybe you can try using 1280x800 in order to get the higher resolutions, you should probably install the port

Re: Why I can't get Wide screen with Intel graphics

2007-01-20 Thread Luigi Rizzo
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 06:05:45PM +, Abdullah Al-Marrie wrote: On 1/20/07, Luigi Rizzo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:38:36AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: under the subsection of display, i have Modes 1024x768 maybe you can try using 1280x800 in order

Re: apache exiting on signal 6

2007-01-20 Thread Joe Auty
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Any suggestions where I might start first in tweaking this file? # cat /usr/local/etc/php/extensions.ini extension=gettext.so extension=mcrypt.so extension=ftp.so extension=session.so extension=posix.so extension=xml.so extension=ctype.so

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Bob
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 11:21:17 -0600 Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i would recomend to hit ebay up for a nice late model logitech optical mouse. i just got my brother in law a 518 off ebay for $20, and thats one heck of a nice feeling mouse. im sure it originally retailed for

upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel

2007-01-20 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hello, I am looking at this link: http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos Would you think I am safe running these instructions to update 6.1 stable to 6.2? My one question is about this: make clean;make cleanworld Can they be used at one go? Or should I issue make clean and then make

JAIL/CHROOT question?

2007-01-20 Thread VeeJay
hello guys I am having one question... can I jail a user being login via SSH to another location/directory than user's $HOME directory? meaing if users $HOME directory is like this /home/alex and user is able to chdir to upward... but I don't want user go to user's $HOME directory. I want

Live CD

2007-01-20 Thread Praveen Kunjapur
Hello, Is FreeBSD available as a Live CD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Live CD

2007-01-20 Thread Jeff Royle
Praveen Kunjapur wrote: Hello, Is FreeBSD available as a Live CD? ___ http://www.freesbie.org/ has been updated to 6.2 Release Cheers, Jeff ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Em S?, 2007-01-20 às 10:03 -0500, Bob escreveu: Hi: I Live with a very hairy, large, Main Coon cat called Tania; she sheds tons of fine hair all over the place. She is a Mouser, and proudly rids our home (a boat) of all sorts of mice. Unfortunately she also kills Computer mice! Therein

Re: upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel

2007-01-20 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 20 January 2007 12:39, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I am looking at this link: http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos Would you think I am safe running these instructions to update 6.1 stable to 6.2? My one question is about this: make clean;make cleanworld Can

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Jan 20), Zbigniew Szalbot said: I see lots of them; every one in that list is contributinig. If you add up all those process sizes you'll see where the space is going. By which I mean the difference between size and res, which indicates the amount of process

Re: Live CD

2007-01-20 Thread Pablo Mora
On 1/20/07, Jeff Royle [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Praveen Kunjapur wrote: Hello, Is FreeBSD available as a Live CD? Frenzy: http://frenzy.org.ua/en/releases/1.0/relnotes.shtml -- Linux is for people who hate Micro$oft. BSD is for people who love Unix ...

Re: upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel

2007-01-20 Thread Eric
Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Hello, I am looking at this link: http://mikestammer.com/dokuwiki/bsd:updateos Would you think I am safe running these instructions to update 6.1 stable to 6.2? My one question is about this: make clean;make cleanworld Can they be used at one go? Or should I

Re: Live CD

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 14:05:26 -0500 Jeff Royle wrote: http://www.freesbie.org/ has been updated to 6.2 Release That's right! And a funny thing happened there yesterday that I wouldn't have expected: A notebook that only caused crashes when booting knoppix booted perfectly with freesbie. Ok, the

Re: upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:25:16 -0600 Jonathan Horne wrote: usually, i: rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/* and then just cvsup a whole new set of sources. i then buildworld and buildkernel as laid out in the handbook: You do of course know that by doing that you also erase your custom

Re: Why does my machine give a panic?

2007-01-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 02:36:47PM +0200, Halid Faith wrote: I used to use freebsd4.X. I didn't have any problem about it. After I reinstalled freebsd6.1 my server has started to given a panic. I am sure that the server's hardware is good. I ran kgdb on the server as below; # kgdb

Re: Releng-6.2 upgrade HINT for iwi0 user !!

2007-01-20 Thread Parv
Do wrap lines around 69 or so characters (to give me no incentive to ignore your mail otherwise). in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote Hanno Krusken thusly... well this posting is send before, part of, the specific upgrade hint regarding the iwi0 driver ! I feel compelled to reply since I get

Re: regexp [. .]

2007-01-20 Thread Parv
in message [EMAIL PROTECTED], wrote [EMAIL PROTECTED] thusly... On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:15:34 +0500, Parker Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a certain match you are trying to pattern? From the looks of it, [ch]* would match a similar set of characters, but it isn't as strict

Re: upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel

2007-01-20 Thread Daniel A.
Christian Baer wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:25:16 -0600 Jonathan Horne wrote: usually, i: rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/* and then just cvsup a whole new set of sources. i then buildworld and buildkernel as laid out in the handbook: You do of course know that by doing that you also erase

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 08:57:27AM +0100, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote: Dear all, Is there a FBSD command to manage virtual memory? I think my swap size is now a bit too much used: last pid: 19824; load averages: 0.06, 0.05, 0.02 up 50+10:00:17 08:54:00 230 processes: 1 running, 227

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Dear all, | Also remember that swap usage itself is not a bad thing; it just means Problem solved. I should have thought about that earlier. Yesterday I was playing with HotSaNIC software to use it on this box. In the end I decided I didn't like it and I didn't really need it so I removed it

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Don't forget that the system also pages to swap space and it takes the attitude of parking as much as possible out there in case it comes in to demand again. Ten if it really needs the space for something, it invalidates the oldest stuff and uses that space. So, you should really expect

Nic NC1020

2007-01-20 Thread Eder
Hi, A doubt, This adapter NIC of net is supported by the FreeBSD? HP NC1020 Ederson de Moura. -- Unix is very simple, but it takes a genius to understand the simplicity. (Dennis Ritchie) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel

2007-01-20 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Saturday 20 January 2007 15:40, Daniel A. wrote: Christian Baer wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 13:25:16 -0600 Jonathan Horne wrote: usually, i: rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/* and then just cvsup a whole new set of sources. i then buildworld and buildkernel as laid out in the handbook:

Re: virtual memory management

2007-01-20 Thread Ivan Voras
[LoN]Kamikaze wrote: Don't forget that the system also pages to swap space and it takes the attitude of parking as much as possible out there in case it comes in to demand again. Ten if it really needs the space for something, it invalidates the oldest stuff and uses that space. So, you

Re: FreeBSD challenged by Internet

2007-01-20 Thread perryh
I doubt there is any reasonably priced ISP that will help in troubleshooting a problem that's not reproducible on Windows. $19.95 a month for DSL (ISP charges) is not reasonably priced? WTF? Dunno about your neck of the woods, but last time I checked around here Verizon was

Small tip to Firefox+flashplayer9

2007-01-20 Thread octix
Hi there. Well couple of times i had crashes on some sites (before opened them i didn't know they have flash).. with flash, so my advice is to install flashblocker extension... this way you won't have closed all good sites i have already opened :) cheers... and happy using FreeBSD ;)

A little trouble starting (X-) Programs over ssh...

2007-01-20 Thread Christian Baer
Good evening peeps! This probably isn't a real FreeBSD-issue itself, but it doesn't really fit any other topic that has a newsgroup out there, so please bear with me here! What I have done: I've installed an X-server (XMing) on a Windows-XP box and connect via PuTTY to a FreeBSD box (Sun U60). I

PV entry limit

2007-01-20 Thread John Capo
I got the infamous pmap_collect: collecting pv entries message 5 times within 4 hours 12 days ago. The machine is a Cyrus IMAP server with 4Gigs of memory peaking around 2000 IMAP processes and a about 200 other processes. The machine is running 4.11 with these compile tweaks. options

Remove extra packages and streamline 6.2

2007-01-20 Thread Joshua Lewis
Hello list, After many days of hard work, a lot of caffeine and not nearly enough sleep I have a working asterisk PBX for my home. I have it working on a PIII 800 with 512MB of RAM and two 5GB drives in a Raid1 config. While this system should suffice I would like to streamline the

Re: samba3 - folders in share show up as 0-byte files (6.1 stable)

2007-01-20 Thread Andrew Tamm
Steve Franks wrote: Hi, Pretty much vanilla install as per the handbook. Had to change from smbpasswd to tdbpasswd to get it working, but that's the only non-standard operation I did. Title says it all. Thought it might be a permissions problem, but I can walk the whole tree when logged on

Mail server intermittent freeze

2007-01-20 Thread Rich Winkel
I'm pulling out what's left of my hair trying to figure out this one. It's not a pretty sight. Save the people who have to look at me! It's a 1ghz intel P3 with 512MB ram, running 4.11-p26 with sendmail, imapd-uw, qpopper, stunnel-4.14_2 and p5-Mail-SpamAssassin-3.1.1, as well as tty logins.

Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

2007-01-20 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On 2007-01-19 15:21, Ceri Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:42:54AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: I think the biggest problem with Microsoft MUAs is not where they position the cursor, but the difficulty they cause in editing the text. My editor also positions the

Re: upgrading from 6.1 to 6.2 with custom kernel

2007-01-20 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 20/01/07, Jonathan Horne [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: rm -rf /usr/src/* /usr/obj/* and then just cvsup a whole new set of sources. Terrific waste of bandwidth. -- -- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread bobmc
Bob wrote: Hi: I Live with a very hairy, large, Main Coon cat called Tania; she sheds tons of fine hair all over the place. She is a Mouser, and proudly rids our home (a boat) of all sorts of mice. Unfortunately she also kills Computer mice! Therein lies my problem. I have been

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Kevin Downey
On 1/20/07, bobmc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob wrote: Hi: I Live with a very hairy, large, Main Coon cat called Tania; she sheds tons of fine hair all over the place. She is a Mouser, and proudly rids our home (a boat) of all sorts of mice. Unfortunately she also kills Computer mice!

Re: Daylight savings time / 6.1 and 4.11

2007-01-20 Thread Pete Slagle
Matthew Seaman wrote: [You could make /etc/localtime a link or a symlink to the appropriate file under /usr/share/zoneinfo, but only if /etc and /usr/share/zoneinfo happen to be on the same filesystem (ie. on the root filesystem), which is not the case in the default install of FreeBSD] As

Re: Mail etiquette

2007-01-20 Thread Michael
Greg Albrecht wrote: On 18/01/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top-posting defined simply ... A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in

Re: Mail etiquette

2007-01-20 Thread Michael
Michael wrote: Greg Albrecht wrote: On 18/01/07, Greg 'groggy' Lehey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Top-posting defined simply ... A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on

The FreeBSD Diary: 2006-12-31 - 2007-01-20

2007-01-20 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Bob
On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:36:38 -0800 Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xorg -configure now puts: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make the scrollwheel work You mean work like a scrollwheel, or as the center button of a

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread Kevin Downey
On 1/20/07, Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 19:36:38 -0800 Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Xorg -configure now puts: Option ZAxisMapping 4 5 6 7 in the mouse section by default, which is all I've ever needed to make the scrollwheel work You mean work like a

Re: Remove extra packages and streamline 6.2

2007-01-20 Thread John Nielsen
On Saturday 20 January 2007 21:15, Joshua Lewis wrote: Hello list, After many days of hard work, a lot of caffeine and not nearly enough sleep I have a working asterisk PBX for my home. I have it working on a PIII 800 with 512MB of RAM and two 5GB drives in a Raid1 config. While this system

Re: Mail etiquette

2007-01-20 Thread Greg 'groggy' Lehey
On Saturday, 20 January 2007 at 20:55:54 -0800, Michael wrote: Greg Albrecht wrote: ps: there's no need to reiterate how 'hard' it is for you to have to 'scroll down' to read the original message in a reply, how is that any different than me having to scroll down to read your reply? I hadn't

Re: Hairy Cats and mice and FreeBSD

2007-01-20 Thread perryh
You mean work like a scrollwheel, or as the center button of a three button mouse? Mine works like the latter, I have yet to have it work as a scroll wheel, even though my /etc/X11/xorg.conf contains the very same ZAxisMapping. This (6.1) box has a Logitech TrackMan Marble+ trackball. When

Re: Mail server intermittent freeze

2007-01-20 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:56:08PM -0600, Rich Winkel wrote: I'm pulling out what's left of my hair trying to figure out this one. It's not a pretty sight. Save the people who have to look at me! It's a 1ghz intel P3 with 512MB ram, running 4.11-p26 with sendmail, imapd-uw, qpopper,