unlisted camera in gtkam?

2007-03-01 Thread t nagu tundmatu
Thanks, Alexander, for taking time to answer. If there is no other helpful thoughts meanwhile I will definately give the it a try. I did write the specific problem information here, maybe it will give a better overview:

Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-01 Thread Never you mind
On my Mac from the Finder I can select Connect to server, give it the details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the ftp space as a drive on the desktop. Can I obtain the same sort of functionality using freeBSD and xfce desktop manager? Malcolm

Re: 6.1 SMP PERC 3 on PE 2650

2007-03-01 Thread Doug Barton
[ For future reference, please don't cross post to -questions and any other list. Thanks. ] Konrad Heuer wrote: Hello everyone, after upgrading from 4.11 to 6.1 Step one would be to upgrade again to either 6.2-RELEASE or -stable. Lots of good stuff happened between releases. hth, Doug

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 06:46:13PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you recommend a distribution you are using in production, we've check ubuntu, fedora and Debian, but I wonder what freebsd users recommend... If you want a professional and well supported system, but don't need commercial

Re: Future of FreeBSD 7.0 and up

2007-03-01 Thread Chris
On 01/03/07, Jeffrey Goldberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 28, 2007, at 1:26 PM, Dwight Smith wrote: I guess my question is that will the ease of building or installing software for FreeBSD ever streamline to where you do not have to do as many steps and text config file entries? I've

Re: find returns unusable result

2007-03-01 Thread Vince
Josh Tolbert wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 11:33:14PM +, Vince wrote: or just find /path/to/dirs -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \; should do it. Fair enough; I generally prefer the xargs method in case I have to do any more processing later. Also, xargs' batching may potentially save

python 2.4.4, 1 vs 2.4.3, 1 - zope trouble - python version downgrade

2007-03-01 Thread Le Cocq Michel
Yesterday I try to install a python module after a 'portsnap fetch update', during the install python upgrade from version 2.4.3,1 to 2.4.4,1. python-2.4.3,1 The meta-port for the stable version of Python interprete vs python-2.4.4,1 [...] since these upgrade my zope (zope29-2.9.6) won't

Backup procedure question / theory

2007-03-01 Thread Dave Carrera
HI All, I need to automatically once a day backup some files on my Win 2003 serve to my remote FreeBSD box running v6. What i need specifically is to compress the win files as small as they can be then either set my FreeBSD box to go a get the file or tell win to send it to my FreeBSD box.

Re: Backup procedure question / theory

2007-03-01 Thread Nick Withers
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:46:07 + Dave Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI All, I need to automatically once a day backup some files on my Win 2003 serve to my remote FreeBSD box running v6. What i need specifically is to compress the win files as small as they can be then either set

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:07:12 +0100 Uwe Laverenz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you want a professional and well supported system, but don't need commercial support, CentOS is the way to go: http://www.centos.org CentOS is a free version of Redhat's Enterprise Linux and is available for several

Re: Future of FreeBSD 7.0 and up

2007-03-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:26:47 -0800 Dwight Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What had me curious to asking this is this article I read about a review on FreeBSD 6.2 (http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/67/) The reviewer had a lot of criticisms that seemed harsh, but at the same

Re: Packet rate limiter

2007-03-01 Thread Chris
On 17/02/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi is there any way how to limit packet per second [PPS] rate to specified IP (group of IP) ? Linux can achieve this via IPtables. I`ve searched a lot of web, but nothing interesting found (for PF, IPFilter, and IPFW). I agree this

Re: find returns unusable result

2007-03-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 17:12:58 -0600 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I could just do this: chmod 755 `find /path/to/dirs -type d` but find returns a directory name of Day, Day, Day, which (obviously) doesn't work. And for completeness sake, if you want to change the

IPF (ftp - pkg_add) help requested

2007-03-01 Thread Don Munyak
I am building a FreeBSD box to function as a FAMP server (LAMP) and hopefully replace our existing mail server. I am having an issue with IPF that I can't seem to figure out. *** When IPF is enabled, I can't run # pkg_add -r package name. {...snip from local console..} p0069# pkg_add -rv bash

Re: IPF (ftp - pkg_add) help requested

2007-03-01 Thread Chris Slothouber
I'd start by upgrading to 6.2 Don Munyak wrote: I am building a FreeBSD box to function as a FAMP server (LAMP) and hopefully replace our existing mail server. I am having an issue with IPF that I can't seem to figure out. *** When IPF is enabled, I can't run # pkg_add -r package name.

Hardware Problem - FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-01 Thread Rômulo Lima
Hi, Good morning, my name is Rômulo Lima, I had a problem when make an upgrade in my Freebsd Server from version 6.1 to 6.2. Before upgrade my SATA disc controller was working normally: atapci1: AcerLabs M5287 SATA150 controller port

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
--- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Bowen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain with freebsd, is poor

Re: python 2.4.4, 1 vs 2.4.3, 1 - zope trouble - python version downgrade

2007-03-01 Thread Dan Busarow
On Thursday, March 1, 2007, at 04:15 AM, Le Cocq Michel wrote: Yesterday I try to install a python module after a 'portsnap fetch update', during the install python upgrade from version 2.4.3,1 to 2.4.4,1. python-2.4.3,1 The meta-port for the stable version of Python interprete vs

Re: FreeBSD X11 settings in Virtual PC 2007

2007-03-01 Thread Björn König
Hello Anthony, it seems like that Virtual PC 2007 doesn't support 24 bit color. I had no problems with 16 bit and 1152x768. Regards Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: python 2.4.4, 1 vs 2.4.3, 1 - zope trouble - python version downgrade

2007-03-01 Thread Le Cocq Michel
I just test on an other system after making a new instance et getting my var and products folder, so it does not come from my zope instance, but apparently my other system is unstable... sick... for ex, when i launch zopctl: rapace# ./zopectl Traceback (most recent call last): File

Re: FreeBSD X11 settings in Virtual PC 2007

2007-03-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Anthony Hook wrote: My xorg.conf keeps warning no screens found after I run xorgconf. Would you be able to send a copy of your xorg.conf? I appreciate the help! Thanks, Anthony Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:52:15 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC:

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-01 Thread John Nielsen
On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:37, Never you mind wrote: On my Mac from the Finder I can select Connect to server, give it the details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the ftp space as a drive on the desktop. Can I obtain the same sort of functionality using freeBSD and xfce

RE: FreeBSD X11 settings in Virtual PC 2007

2007-03-01 Thread Anthony Hook
My xorg.conf keeps warning no screens found after I run xorgconf. Would you be able to send a copy of your xorg.conf? I appreciate the help! Thanks, Anthony Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 15:52:15 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject:

Portupgrade -how ro get out of loop!!

2007-03-01 Thread Vizion
I have multiple lines of stale dependencies reported from pkgdb -F all of which relate to bsdpan-Archive-Tar-1.30 or 1.16 witha report that the package is held. The lines are Stale dependency:bsdpan-Archive-Tar-[version] - [see NOTE below]: - Ignored (the package is held; specify -f to force)

FSCK question on FreeBSD 5.4R

2007-03-01 Thread Gerry Freymann
I was doing some maintenance on my FreeBSD 5.4R box, and took it down to single user mode and ran fsck -y I have four partitions on my drive, and the 2nd and 3rd partitions come up with errors and say run fsck manually. When I do: fsck -y /dev/ad0s1e there's no difference, it

Re: Hardware Problem - FreeBSD 6.2

2007-03-01 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 01 March 2007 16:10, Rômulo Lima wrote: Hi, Good morning, my name is Rômulo Lima, I had a problem when make an upgrade in my Freebsd Server from version 6.1 to 6.2. Before upgrade my SATA disc controller was working normally: atapci1: AcerLabs M5287 SATA150 controller port

Re: Best anoncvs Site to Update 6.2 Sources

2007-03-01 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:00, Martin McCormick wrote: After installing FreeBSD6.2 from the ISO image, I figured that cvsup would be the best way to update the new system and apply the patches which have come out since the image was created. I think I have cvsup ready to go, but I

Best anoncvs Site to Update 6.2 Sources

2007-03-01 Thread Martin McCormick
After installing FreeBSD6.2 from the ISO image, I figured that cvsup would be the best way to update the new system and apply the patches which have come out since the image was created. I think I have cvsup ready to go, but I can't tell for sure since the mirror site I picked was the

Re: python 2.4.4, 1 vs 2.4.3, 1 - zope trouble - python version downgrade

2007-03-01 Thread Dan Busarow
On Mar 1, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Le Cocq Michel wrote: I just test on an other system after making a new instance et getting my var and products folder, so it does not come from my zope instance, but apparently my other system is unstable... sick... for ex, when i launch zopctl: rapace#

Re: FSCK question on FreeBSD 5.4R

2007-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:12:38AM -0500, Gerry Freymann wrote: I was doing some maintenance on my FreeBSD 5.4R box, and took it down to single user mode and ran fsck -y I have four partitions on my drive, and the 2nd and 3rd partitions come up with errors and say run fsck

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Never you mind wrote: On my Mac from the Finder I can select Connect to server, give it the details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the ftp space as a drive on the desktop. Can I obtain the same sort of functionality using freeBSD and xfce desktop manager? The built in

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:37, Never you mind wrote: On my Mac from the Finder I can select Connect to server, give it the details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the ftp space as a drive on the desktop. Can I obtain the same sort of functionality using

defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Steve Franks
How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? Thanks, Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 09:49:09AM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? It's really not an issue. jerry

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Steve Franks wrote: How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? Thanks, Steve I'm thinking this one's in the FAQ at freebsd.org. Kevin Kinsey --

RE: pfctl: DIOCSETSTATUSIF

2007-03-01 Thread Michael K. Smith - Adhost
Hello: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-freebsd- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Daniel Gerzo Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2007 3:52 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: pfctl: DIOCSETSTATUSIF Hello pf, I'm having the following problem:

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Steve Franks wrote: How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? Thanks, Steve I'm thinking this one's in the FAQ at

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Pietro Cerutti
On 3/1/07, Kevin Kinsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: groff /usr/share/doc/smm/05.fastfs/* ~/ffs.ps /\/\ -- Pietro Cerutti - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments

Re: if_nfe on nVidia chipset

2007-03-01 Thread Palle Girgensohn
1 mar 2007 kl. 01.42 skrev Shigeaki Tagashira: Hello, Could you try the latest nfe code for only 7-CURRENT in the following URL? It was overhauled by Pyun YongHyeon (yongari@). http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/nfe/if_nfe.c http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/nfe/if_nfereg.h

Re: FreeBSD X11 settings in Virtual PC 2007

2007-03-01 Thread Björn König
Hello Anthony, this is my xorg.conf: http://www.alpha-tierchen.de/dateien/etc/xorg.conf-vpc2007.txt Björn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Simon Gao
Stephen Liu wrote: --- DAve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Patrick Bowen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Sorry this question is a little off-topic... We've been using Freebsd for many years and all of our servers are running freebsd. The only thing that is a pain

Re: FSCK question on FreeBSD 5.4R

2007-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 01/03/07, Gerry Freymann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was doing some maintenance on my FreeBSD 5.4R box, and took it down to single user mode and ran fsck -y I have four partitions on my drive, and the 2nd and 3rd partitions come up with errors and say run fsck manually. When I do:

Re: FSCK question on FreeBSD 5.4R

2007-03-01 Thread Gerry Freymann
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 11:39:12 -0500 Jerry McAllister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 10:12:38AM -0500, Gerry Freymann wrote: I was doing some maintenance on my FreeBSD 5.4R box, and took it down to single user mode and ran fsck -y I have four partitions on my drive,

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? unless you'll keep your filesystem always near-full it's not an issue. POSSIBLY it could gain few

Re: FSCK question on FreeBSD 5.4R

2007-03-01 Thread Gerry Freymann
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 12:21:02 -0600 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is the error (as such): FREE BLK COUNT(S) WRONG IN SUPERBLK SALVAGE? Because, this is nothing more than an artifact of fsck-ing a live filesystem with softupdates on. Unmount (or maybe downgrade it to read-only).

Re: Backup procedure question / theory

2007-03-01 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 01/03/07, Nick Withers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:46:07 + Dave Carrera [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI All, I need to automatically once a day backup some files on my Win 2003 serve to my remote FreeBSD box running v6. What i need specifically is to compress the

Re: Stability Issues on 5.4-RELEASE Box

2007-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 05:39:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not running your application mix, but I've never seen random reboots unless there were hardware issues. With 5.X these included having hyperthreading turned on, which I know caused problems with my dual XEON system.

Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1

2007-03-01 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:37:56PM -0800, Noah wrote: so something strange has happened and my machine no longer boots and I am not clear why. Here is what happens during boot: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted ELF interpreter

Re: freebsd 6.2 oracle php php-oci8 core dump

2007-03-01 Thread José García Juanino
El martes 27 de febrero a las 11:16:44 CET, Dan Cojocar escribió: Hello all, I have oracle-xe, lang/php5, databases/linux-oracle-instantclient-basic, databases/linux-oracle-instantclient-sdk, databases/oracle8-client and databases/php5-oci8 following this howto:

Re: Backup procedure question / theory

2007-03-01 Thread Roger Olofsson
Hello Dave, May I suggest that you try rsync for this? For windows cwrsync works fine as client for Windows XP. It's rather easy to setup and can be triggered by the windows machine since it runs as a .bat or .cmd. For FreeBSD rsync is in ports. With some nifty scripting you can setup the

Re: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1 [solved]

2007-03-01 Thread Noah
Kris Kennaway wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 01:37:56PM -0800, Noah wrote: so something strange has happened and my machine no longer boots and I am not clear why. Here is what happens during boot: Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted ELF

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-01 Thread Never you mind
On 02/03/2007, at 2:58 AM, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:37, Never you mind wrote: On my Mac from the Finder I can select Connect to server, give it the details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the ftp space as a drive on the desktop. Can I obtain the

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Steve Franks
Excellent! Never had that one answered. I've gone down the typical road of being an MS booster (It doesn't take 10 hours to set up and configure) to experiencing glee when I find yet another way FBSD kicks the crap out of MS. Why? Because I've grown up, and learned that 2 hours time spent

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 11:21:16AM -0600, Kevin Kinsey wrote: Kevin Kinsey wrote: Steve Franks wrote: How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so?

Fwd: IPF (ftp - pkg_add) help requested

2007-03-01 Thread Don Munyak
Apart from up dating to newer version, I don't see how upgrading to 6.2 will make a difference. Anyway, thanks for taking the time to reply. However, the solution is as follows. Incidentally, this had nothing to do with pkg_add And everything to do with FTP and IPFILTER. ===

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Steve Franks wrote: Excellent! Never had that one answered. I've gone down the typical road of being an MS booster (It doesn't take 10 hours to set up and configure) to experiencing glee when I find yet another way FBSD kicks the crap out of MS. Why? Because I've grown up, and learned that 2

Re: Best anoncvs Site to Update 6.2 Sources

2007-03-01 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Nikos Vassiliadis wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:00, Martin McCormick wrote: After installing FreeBSD6.2 from the ISO image, I figured that cvsup would be the best way to update the new system and apply the patches which have come out since the image was created. I think I have

Serial Port Problems

2007-03-01 Thread Dan D Niles
More Dell 2950 woes. I use serial ports to manage my FreeBSD machines remotely. I've never had any problems until now. I've installed FreeBSD 6.2 on a Dell 2950. The install goes without problems over the serial port. After the reboot, I get the typical: FreeBSD/i386 (test.host.net) (ttyd0)

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Steve Franks wrote: How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? fsck will tell you the level of fragmentation on the file system: fsck /usr **

Re: Fwd: IPF (ftp - pkg_add) help requested

2007-03-01 Thread Chris Slothouber
Ahh, totally makes sense. Sorry for the misguided reply, it was late and I thought there had been kernel changes with ipf in 6.2 but in fact that was ipfw. Glad to hear you figured this out! - Chris Don Munyak wrote: Apart from up dating to newer version, I don't see how upgrading to 6.2

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Richard Lynch
On Thu, March 1, 2007 3:35 pm, Ivan Voras wrote: Steve Franks wrote: How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? I've been told that most modern

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Steve Franks wrote: How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? fsck will tell you the level of

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:22:32 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backup+restore will be defrag you mean : backup, format, (reinstall if needed, depending on method of backup) and restore - or simply restore on top (if you backed up everything and can access your drive offline).

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:17:10 -0800 Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not give Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) a try. By using Gentoo Linux, you not only get the similar port system, portage, as with FreeBSD, but also enjoy all the benefits Linux can provide. Gentoo Linux is very

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Richard Lynch wrote: On Thu, March 1, 2007 3:35 pm, Ivan Voras wrote: Steve Franks wrote: How come I never hear defrag come up as a topic, and can't find anything related to defrag in the ports tree? Is it really not an issue on UFS? Can someone point me to an explantion if so? I've been

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Robert Huff
Richard Lynch writes: So that the need to do defrag is essentially almost 0 for almost all users. For one of my boxes, with three filesystems, the frag % has been (0,8, 0.4, 1.1). For n5 years. Robert Huff

Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Sam Jones
I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first drive, and when the computer boots, it displays: F1 FreeBSD F5 Drive 1 When I press F5, FreeBSD loads and

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 352462 files, 2525857 used, 875044 free (115156 frags, 94986 blocks, 3.4% fragmentation) Just to reiterate: Fragmentation on a Windows filesystem is _not_ the same as fragmentation on a unix file system. They are not

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:51:00AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:22:32 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backup+restore will be defrag you mean : backup, format, (reinstall if needed, depending on method of backup) and restore - or simply

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:36, Sam Jones said: I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first drive, and when the computer boots, it displays: F1

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 352462 files, 2525857 used, 875044 free (115156 frags, 94986 blocks, 3.4% fragmentation) Just to reiterate: Fragmentation on a Windows filesystem is _not_ the same as

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:22:32 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backup+restore will be defrag you mean : backup, format, (reinstall if needed, depending on method of backup) and restore - or simply restore on top (if you backed

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Thursday 01 March 2007 13:21, Beech Rintoul said: On Thursday 01 March 2007 12:36, Sam Jones said: I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:36:45PM -0500, Sam Jones wrote: I'm having a little problem trying to dual boot. I have two SATA hard drives, the first one with FreeBSD and the second with Windows XP. I installed the FreeBSD boot manager on the first drive, and when the computer boots, it

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Moran wrote: In response to Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 352462 files, 2525857 used, 875044 free (115156 frags, 94986 blocks, 3.4% fragmentation) Just to reiterate: Fragmentation on a Windows filesystem is _not_ the same as fragmentation on a

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 05:17:38PM -0500, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:51:00AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:22:32 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: backup+restore will be defrag you mean : backup, format,

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Bill Moran wrote: In response to Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I believe that a fragmented file in common usage refers to a file which is not stored continuously on the drive - i.e. it occupies more than one continuous region. How is UFS fragmentation different than fragmentation on other

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Lowell Gilbert wrote: If you know the standard computer science terminology, it can be described quite tersely. UFS fragmentation is a way of avoiding internal fragmentation from wasting too much space. MS-DOS-FS fragmentation is an example of external fragmentation in the storage space.

X11 library question..

2007-03-01 Thread Jeff Mohler
The error: error while loading shared libraries: libXm.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Ive done a few searches, and installing open-motif seemed to be the right answer, but isnt getting me anywhere. Ideas/suggestions?

Re: Dual booting problems

2007-03-01 Thread RW
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:30:26 -0900 Beech Rintoul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I should also mention that you need the FreeBSD boot manager on both disks, or an alternative boot manager such as grub or gag. Read the handbook. I recall reading that too, but I've never understood what it's supposed

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-01 Thread Never you mind
On 02/03/2007, at 2:58 AM, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:37, Never you mind wrote: On my Mac from the Finder I can select Connect to server, give it the details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the ftp space as a drive on the desktop. Can I obtain the

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-01 Thread Chris Slothouber
make config Never you mind wrote: On 02/03/2007, at 2:58 AM, John Nielsen wrote: On Thursday 01 March 2007 01:37, Never you mind wrote: On my Mac from the Finder I can select Connect to server, give it the details of an ftp location and it will connect and display the ftp space as a drive

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread jekillen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 2:56 PM, Ivan Voras wrote: Lowell Gilbert wrote: If you know the standard computer science terminology, it can be described quite tersely. UFS fragmentation is a way of avoiding internal fragmentation from wasting too much space. MS-DOS-FS fragmentation is an example of

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:56:02 +0100 Ivan Voras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So that the need to do defrag is essentially almost 0 for almost all users. For what it's worth, this has been Microsoft's official position since NTFS became mainstream. Meaning that NTFS is cured of this ?? I

Re: Fwd: IPF (ftp - pkg_add) help requested

2007-03-01 Thread Kelly D. Grills
On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:10:11PM -0500, Don Munyak wrote: My server was opening an additional session using ports 1024, which I was not initially allowing. ipf was blocking outbound due to this rule. This is a known issue with ftp client sessions using active mode when behind a firewall.

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
jekillen wrote: a Mac disc. I am just curious as to how the HFS and HFS+ file systems fit into this picture. Particularly since OSX is essentially a Unix 'like' system but still uses HFS+ Just for some perspective and idle curiosity. As you said, HFS(+) is not a native unix file system, but

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Stephen Liu
--- Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Liu wrote: Take a look at Slackware. http://www.slackware.com Patrick Seconded, if I got to run Linux, I run Slackware (and I have in production). If you need it there is a port of Slack to AMD64 called slamd64,

hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread jekillen
Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a reference to a source for the driver source and instructions to compile and install.

Re: Best anoncvs Site to Update 6.2 Sources

2007-03-01 Thread Martin McCormick
Kevin Kinsey writes: The mirrors are in the form cvsupN.freebsd.org. I use cvsup12, cvsup13, cvsup6 from SW Missouri (and my upstream links go through NE Oklahoma, dunno if they are close to you or not). Probably close enough. It will probably work when I connect to the right site. It might

Re: defrag

2007-03-01 Thread Ivan Voras
Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, it would do some, but for the greatest effect, you would need: dump + rm -rf * + restore This is nitpicking so ignore it: deleting all files on UFS2 volume won't restore it to it's pristine state because inodes are lazily initialized. It doesn't have anything to

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a reference to a source for the driver source and instructions to

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a reference to a source for the driver source and

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-03-01 Thread Erik Osterholm
On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 08:55:41AM +1100, Norberto Meijome wrote: On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:17:10 -0800 Simon Gao [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not give Gentoo Linux (www.gentoo.org) a try. By using Gentoo Linux, you not only get the similar port system, portage, as with FreeBSD, but also

Re: Using source control to manage system configs

2007-03-01 Thread Rob
On 01/03/2007, at 4:26 AM, David Robillard wrote: Well, I'm not quite sure that it will answer all of your questions, but take a look at Luke Kanies's article called ''Using version control in system administration''. It's available from the USENIX website at

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread jekillen
On Mar 1, 2007, at 8:18 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did

Re: hardware question

2007-03-01 Thread Garrett Cooper
jekillen wrote: On Mar 1, 2007, at 8:04 PM, Garrett Cooper wrote: jekillen wrote: Hello; I have built a machine with ASUS M2N32 WS pro motherboard. It has dual network interface ports that are Marvell interfaces. I understand that FreeBSD does not yet support Marvell as of v6.2. I did get a

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-01 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
What do I need to do to wipe the slate clean? On 02/03/2007, at 11:53 AM, Chris Slothouber wrote: make config Yes. I don't know what arguments to pass to it. Where are the current arguments being stored, surely I can edit that file? Never you mind wrote: On 02/03/2007, at 2:58 AM,