Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-03 Thread Malcolm Fitzgerald
On 02/03/2007, at 6:54 PM, Chris Slothouber wrote: make config will load the variables stored in /var/db/ports/* Oh. I'll look into that. From /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs/ I typed make config and it said that it wanted me to pass options to it. Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote:

bsdstats

2007-03-03 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Hello all I setted up several bsd servers that are terminal servers running gnome 2.16.3.. the machines runs about 10 to 40 thin clients running FreeBSD. Question: Does the thin clients count as Freebsd servers in bsdstats??? if so. It will add about 400 servers in the list

Re: Mounting an FTP space ?

2007-03-03 Thread Chris Slothouber
ftp/curl is where you're having issues, right? do a make config there first. Malcolm Fitzgerald wrote: On 02/03/2007, at 6:54 PM, Chris Slothouber wrote: make config will load the variables stored in /var/db/ports/* Oh. I'll look into that. From /usr/ports/sysutils/fusefs-curlftpfs/ I

Re: bsdstats

2007-03-03 Thread [LoN]Kamikaze
Sergio Lenzi wrote: Question: Does the thin clients count as Freebsd servers in bsdstats??? If each client runs the bsdstats script and has its own hostname, yes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Backup Script

2007-03-03 Thread Robert Davison
Im trying to write a small backup script which I have put in /etc/periodic/weekly. The script is as follows.. #!/bin/sh # #weekly backup of chosen files # if then tar -cf /dev/sa0 /var/ftp /home /etc /usr/local echo backing up the disks else echo There was a

Re: Backup Script

2007-03-03 Thread Kostas Blekos
Robert Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Sat, Mar 03, 2007 (09:06 +) wrote: Im trying to write a small backup script which I have put in /etc/periodic/weekly. The script is as follows.. #!/bin/sh # #weekly backup of chosen files # if then tar -cf /dev/sa0 /var/ftp /home

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-03-03 Thread bram
Hi I'm not really pro-linux and I really like freebsd but if have to use linux (because I need things not available on bsd). I always use fedora, it's fast to install lot's of info on the net and it is not time consuming (1 hour to install). Danny Pansters schreef: If you have a (Free)BSD

Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0

2007-03-03 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
- Original Message - From: Cheffo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-performance@freebsd.org; O. Hartmann [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 3:38 AM Subject: Re: (S)ATA performance in FBSD 6.2/7.0 Hi, I

Re: Fw: FIN_WAIT_2

2007-03-03 Thread Tek Bahadur Limbu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 10:13:49 -0500 Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I have done some research ... It appears that inn certain conditions, when the net.inet.ip.fw.dyn_keepalive=1 (sysctl), remote clients or other servers may not

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:44:16 -0600 Josh Paetzel wrote: The issues with the config screen sounds like a bug, but one that is unlikely to get fixed any time soon. You can avoid it by doing a make config-recursive before building the port, but you're still going to run in to the problem that

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:07:24 -0500 Lowell Gilbert wrote: Exactly right. However, you can get some parallel building by doing more than one single-threaded build at the same time. This leads to some danger of corrupting the database, though, so it's not for the squeamish. I know that

Re: Fw: FIN_WAIT_2

2007-03-03 Thread Grant Peel
Do you have ipfw or other firewall running? Did you restart the network? -Grant - Original Message - From: Tek Bahadur Limbu [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2007 6:43 AM Subject: Re: Fw: FIN_WAIT_2

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:37:33 + RW wrote: There are two problems here. The first is that not all of the underlying builds support this. The second is that we are using Make as our ports scripting language - I'm guessing that in Gentoo no-one expects portage itself to be parallel. I

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:50:44 -0700 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?

Re: Apache Rotate Logs and Log Rotate.

2007-03-03 Thread David Robillard
On 3/3/07, Peter Pluta [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see, thanks. Does the shell script you use automatically delete the original logs after verbalizer or awstats makes it's own? I imagine the ones those programs use are smaller in size? No, the shell script does not delete any logs. Log rotation

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:39:05 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, it would do some, but for the greatest effect, you would need: dump + rm -rf * + restore That would get it all. Of course, I should have re-emphasized that this is not needed. You will not improve performance. Its only

Re: bsdstats

2007-03-03 Thread Sergio Lenzi
Em S?, 2007-03-03 às 09:27 +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze escreveu: Sergio Lenzi wrote: Question: Does the thin clients count as Freebsd servers in bsdstats??? If each client runs the bsdstats script and has its own hostname, yes. Yes. that is the case... the thin clients have hostnames like:

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 2 Mar 2007 11:12:25 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: On the other hand, doing all this either way wouldn't make any difference in performance for file access in a running system because so-called fragmentation is not an issue in the UNIX file system - except in the small possibility

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:56:02 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: For what it's worth, this has been Microsoft's official position since NTFS became mainstream. As usual, it's not worth much if it come from Microsoft... Regards Chris ___

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:21:57 -0500 Bill Moran wrote: But this also makes it _easy_ for the filesystem to avoid causing the type of fragmentation that _does_ degrade performance. For example, when the first block is on track 10, then the next block is on track 20, then we're back to track 10

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Thu, 01 Mar 2007 23:56:30 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: UFS fragmentation refers to dividing blocks (e.g. 16KB in size) into block fragments (e.g. 2KB in size) that can be allocated separately in special circumstances (which all boil down to: at the end of files). This is done to lessen

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:14:07 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: As you said, HFS(+) is not a native unix file system, but maybe someone will know about it. All I know about is that HFS+ is a journaling file system and that it defragments (in the Windows sense) files smaller than certain size (20MB?) on

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Duane Hill
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007, Christian Baer wrote: On Fri, 02 Mar 2007 02:14:07 +0100 Ivan Voras wrote: As you said, HFS(+) is not a native unix file system, but maybe someone will know about it. All I know about is that HFS+ is a journaling file system and that it defragments (in the Windows sense)

Re: Digital Nation Radio Show

2007-03-03 Thread Chuck Swiger
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My name is Josh Smith, I am the producer for the Digital Nation, radio show, based out of Orlando, Fl. Digital Nation, is about everything electronic and I would like to know some things about FreeBSD. Does a drive need to be partitioned to run it? Can it run on a

GVinum issues

2007-03-03 Thread Steve Bertrand
Hi all, Although I've poured over documentation for over an hour this morning, I'm certain I'm missing something very minute here. I've got a: backup# uname -a FreeBSD backup 6.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #2: Thu May 25 14:44:22 EDT 2006 internal backup server running a gvinum span:

What cvs-supfile Directive did I Leave Out?

2007-03-03 Thread Martin McCormick
I originally wanted to bring the ISO image of FreeBSD6.2 up to date using cvsup. Everything worked perfectly including the make buildworld, make installworld, make buildkernel and make installkernel. Then was when I realized that I was now running FreeBSD7.0 after having unwittingly

Re: What cvs-supfile Directive did I Leave Out?

2007-03-03 Thread Erik Trulsson
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:05:47AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: I originally wanted to bring the ISO image of FreeBSD6.2 up to date using cvsup. Everything worked perfectly including the make buildworld, make installworld, make buildkernel and make installkernel. Then was when I

Re: What cvs-supfile Directive did I Leave Out?

2007-03-03 Thread Fred Condo
Have a look at /usr/share/examples/cvsup/standard-supfile You probably want something like this: *default host=cvsup15.us.freebsd.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_6_2 *default delete use-rel-suffix src-all -- Fred Condo, Chief Engineer

Bittorrent : any valid tracker ?

2007-03-03 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I'm trying to download via bittorrent since few days now and cannot connect to http://torrents.freebsd.org:8080 which remains unavailable. Any other trackers fro FreeBSD ? Maybe better to simply download via FTP ? Thanks. Bye, Bruno ___

Re: What cvs-supfile Directive did I Leave Out?

2007-03-03 Thread Martin McCormick
Erik Trulsson writes: Maybe, but I wouldn't count on it. I would recommend reinstalling 6.2 from scratch and starting over again. Thank you and thanks to Fred Condo who also responded. I guess the only thing I can salvage from the last day's work is knowing that cvsup is a good

Re: Firefox only runs as root--help!

2007-03-03 Thread Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum
Paulette McGee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: This is a resend of something i sent to the freebsd-gnome list a few days ago, but there wer no answers and i think its a real problem, so i hope no one minds. I have a new install of FreeBSD 6.2, and installed

Is there any native Java3d for FreeBSD6.x?

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Tourde
Hello, I need Java3d on my FreeBSD 6.2 box. When I try to build the java3d port, I end up with some Linux binary support (FedoraCore) and a Java3D based on some Linux binary. I have sun-jdk-1.5 native on my system. It's not that I hate Linux (I am a very satisfied owner of a few Gentoo

sshd: PAM + key authentication

2007-03-03 Thread Cédric Jonas
Hi all, I set up a some sshd servers which authenticates their users through a LDAP DB. To realize this, I used PAM. Everything ok until now. Then, via PAM (pam_filter) and the host attribute in the LDAP DB, I only allowed logon on specifical hosts for some users. After that, I tested this

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-03-03 Thread David Robillard
If you have a (Free)BSD mindset and like your rc.conf but don't mind typing pacman instead of pkg_* or portupgrade -P * and you don't mind using something called ABS for src packages, which is like ports, only with a stage install before live-system install, then you may just like ArchLinux.

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

2007-03-03 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Thursday 01 March 2007 08:54, Le Cocq Michel wrote: File /usr/local/www/Zope29/lib/python/zope/app/component/adapter.py, line 28, in ? class LocalSurrogate(zope.interface.adapter.Surrogate): AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'Surrogate' rapace# See if you have the

Re: defrag

2007-03-03 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 02:53:30PM +0100, Christian Baer wrote: On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 17:39:05 -0500 Jerry McAllister wrote: Well, it would do some, but for the greatest effect, you would need: dump + rm -rf * + restore That would get it all. Of course, I should have re-emphasized

Re: building jdk15 in a jail -- __mb_cur_max Undefined Symbol

2007-03-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 3, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi I am trying to build jdk15 inside my jail with PREFIX set to /usr/ public (At one time I successfully got jdk 1.4 to build after much hacking) I have the option for builing inside a jail set. We get to the point where

Re: building jdk15 in a jail -- __mb_cur_max Undefined Symbol

2007-03-03 Thread Bill Moran
On Mar 3, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi I am trying to build jdk15 inside my jail with PREFIX set to /usr/ public (At one time I successfully got jdk 1.4 to build after much hacking) I have the option for builing inside a jail set. We get to the point where

[portupgrade] pkgdb -L

2007-03-03 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Hello, I'm asking about the goal of the new option -L of pkgdb : -L --fix-lost Check and restore lost dependencies against the ports tree. What is a lost dependency ? # pkgdb -L Look for lost dependencies: ImageMagick-6.3.2.0: found print/ghostscript-afpl - Fixed. ORBit2-2.14.6: ok [...]

Re: [portupgrade] pkgdb -L

2007-03-03 Thread Randy Pratt
On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 01:57:54 +0100 Patrick Lamaizière [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm asking about the goal of the new option -L of pkgdb : -L --fix-lost Check and restore lost dependencies against the ports tree. What is a lost dependency ? I hope I can explain this right. Its a

Re: Linux equivalent to freebsd

2007-03-03 Thread Norberto Meijome
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 22:57:18 -0600 Erik Osterholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No binary packages? Could have fooled me. From: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/faq.xml#ebuilds For full ISO releases, we create a full suite of binary packages in an enhanced .tbz2 format, which is .tar.bz2

FreeBSD Native JDK/JRE

2007-03-03 Thread Chris Bowlby
Hi, I've been attempting to install java/jdk15 into a jail under FreeBSD 6.2 and have been running into some issues. I have appended a trimmed out version of the output I get during an installation to the end of the message. From what I can tell, it's attempting to install some Linux

Re: FreeBSD Native JDK/JRE

2007-03-03 Thread Chris Bowlby
Hi, As luck would have it, 2 minutes after posting this message, I managed to find this URL: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-August/129252.html Which addresses most of my issues, now I just have to work past a compiler error (I think due to sun-jdk-1.4 having been

Re: dhclient.conf + resolv.conf

2007-03-03 Thread Jonathan Horne
On Friday 02 March 2007 15:16, J.D. Bronson wrote: I am trying to have dhclient setup my resolv.conf perfect. I am very close. I have this in dhclient.conf: - interface bge1 { supersede domain-name wixb.com; prepend domain-name-servers 192.l68.1.1;

gmake in jail from ports linking to ld-linux.so.2 ??? Re: building jdk15 in a jail -- __mb_cur_max Undefined Symbol

2007-03-03 Thread Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC
On Mar 3, 2007, at 5:18 PM, Bill Moran wrote: On Mar 3, 2007, at 4:01 PM, Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC wrote: Hi I am trying to build jdk15 inside my jail with PREFIX set to /usr/ public (At one time I successfully got jdk 1.4 to build after much hacking) I have the option for builing

Running X window system

2007-03-03 Thread Warwick Sweetnam
Hi, I am having trouble getting X window system to boot on a 2196 24A IBM Aptiva. The specs of the on-board graphics card are as follows: 64meg Ram SiS540 or SiS630 The monitor is a dell lcd model no. 1504FP specs are as follows: Resolution Horizontal scan range 31 kHz to 60 kHz (automatic)

Running X window system

2007-03-03 Thread Warwick Sweetnam
Hi, I am having trouble getting X window system to boot on a 2196 24A IBM Aptiva. The specs of the on-board graphics card are as follows: 64meg Ram SiS540 or SiS630 The monitor is a dell lcd model no. 1504FP specs are as follows: Resolution Horizontal scan range 31 kHz to 60 kHz (automatic)

Re: Running X window system

2007-03-03 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Sunday 04 March 2007 00:50, Warwick Sweetnam wrote: Hi, I am having trouble getting X window system to boot on a 2196 24A IBM Aptiva. The specs of the on-board graphics card are as follows: 64meg Ram SiS540 or SiS630 The monitor is a dell lcd model no. 1504FP specs are as follows:

The FreeBSD Diary: 2007-02-11 - 2007-03-03

2007-03-03 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: bsdstats

2007-03-03 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - --On Saturday, March 03, 2007 10:57:29 -0300 Sergio Lenzi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em S?, 2007-03-03 às 09:27 +0100, [LoN]Kamikaze escreveu: Sergio Lenzi wrote: Question: Does the thin clients count as Freebsd servers in bsdstats??? If