Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-03 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
Charles Richards wrote: If his data (photo / video storage) is that important, then perhaps he wants to do soemthing else ... but for a cheap way to get tons of storage, ZFS can't be beat. Of course I'm backing up the very important data on a daily basis (de photo's mainly), but the videos (w

Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-03 Thread dick hoogendijk
On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 10:00:09 +0100 Frederique Rijsdijk wrote: > I also read/noticed that ZFS seems to run best on AMD64 platforms. That's not quite correct. ZFS runs best on 64bits platforms. -- Dick Hoogendijk -- PGP/GnuPG key: 01D2433D + http://nagual.nl/ | SunOS sxce snv104 ++ + All that's

Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-03 Thread Sergio de Almeida Lenzi
Hello About your zfs experience... please let me tell mine.. I was having toubles with ufs2 on some small servers (desktop grade) machines running postgresql (64 bits, or 32 bits) all running FreeBSD 7.X some still 6.X... the problem is that sometimes the database brokes because the ufs2 fsc

wacom bamboo fun

2009-01-03 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Hello, I tried around with x11-drivers/wacom port. I'd like to notice this thing, and to ask if that is a bug: I compile the ums and uhid devices into the kernel. So the usb wacom is detected as ums1. And, therefore, after it is detected as ums, it is never being detected by rc.d as uwacom0. So

Re: Using HDD's for ZFS: 'desktop' vs 'raid / enterprise' -edition drives?

2009-01-03 Thread Frederique Rijsdijk
After some reading, I come back from my original idea. Main reason is I'd like to be able to grow the fs as the need develops in time. One could create a raidz zpool with a couple of disks, but when adding a disk later on, it will not become part of the raidz (I tested this). It seems vdevs c

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
RW wrote: On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:30:12 + Vincent Hoffman wrote: Admittedly this doesn't give a file by file checksum That's not really a problem, it's no easier to create a collision in a .gz file than a patch file. The more substantial weakness is that the key is verified against a ha

Re: Memory Usage

2009-01-03 Thread Patrick Lamaizière
Le Fri, 2 Jan 2009 10:47:32 -0500, "Grant Peel" a écrit : > Hi all, > > Does anyone have scripts they may be willing to share the parses any > FreeBSD utility (top, w, etc) suitable for using the output to use > mrtg to show memory and disk usage? Mrtg needs a script that returns four lines : -

Re: Memory Usage

2009-01-03 Thread Roger Olofsson
Grant Peel skrev: Hi all, Does anyone have scripts they may be willing to share the parses any FreeBSD utility (top, w, etc) suitable for using the output to use mrtg to show memory and disk usage? -Grant ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Tool for traffic measure?

2009-01-03 Thread Sdävtaker
Thanks for the info, i got a linksys SD208: http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1123638180923&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=8092322279B03 It got 0 intelligence, right? Thanks for the replies Sdav On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 4:00 AM, Kur

Re: HowTo configure WPA[2] ath0 [wlan0] on up to date 8.0-CURRENT

2009-01-03 Thread eculp
Quoting "maddae...@gmail.com" : On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM, wrote: I'm currently using wep at home and in the office configured from rc.conf. example: ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515 weptxkey 1" I'm traveling and haven't been able to connect to hotspots

Converting RRD records

2009-01-03 Thread stan
I just built a replacement machne. it's 7.1 and AMD64. I have existing RRD records from an older I386 machine, that I would like to be able to access on this machine. Is it possible to convert these records, and if so how? -- One of the main causes of the fall of the roman empire was that, lacki

Createing a package.

2009-01-03 Thread stan
I have managed to build OO on a machine of the same architecture as I want to run it oon. The target machine does not seem to be capable of building it. I suspect that it does not have enough memory. Can I create a package on the "donor" machine to move this to the target machine? Or is there a be

Re: Createing a package.

2009-01-03 Thread Daniel Bye
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:23:06PM -0500, stan wrote: > I have managed to build OO on a machine of the same architecture as I want > to run it oon. The target machine does not seem to be capable of building > it. I suspect that it does not have enough memory. > > Can I create a package on the "don

how to remove "-KVCD.stats"?

2009-01-03 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, due to using mkxvcd to convert avi to mpg, I sometimes generates "-KVCD.stas" file. How can I remove this? every time I run: rm -f \-KVCD.stats or rm -f "_KVCD.stas" it says: rm: illegal option -- K usage: rm [-f | -i] [-dIPRrvW] file ... unlink file thanks!! TFC _

Mint Card statement

2009-01-03 Thread Mint Card
[1]Go to MINT home [2]navigation imagemapYour Accounts Your Mint Card statement 2009. Hello-We are using this time to inform you that your new mint statement for 2009 open with all closed transactions for the last 2008 will be online soon as we are working on our new sever,So we

Re: Tool for traffic measure?

2009-01-03 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:03 AM, Sdävtaker wrote: > Thanks for the info, i got a linksys SD208: > http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Product_C2&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1123638180923&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper&lid=8092322279B03 > It got 0 intelligence, right? > Thanks

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-03 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:38:25AM +, RW wrote: > On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:30:12 + > Vincent Hoffman wrote: > > Admittedly this doesn't give a file by file checksum > > That's not really a problem, it's no easier to create a collision > in a .gz file than a patch file. > > The more substa

Re: Createing a package.

2009-01-03 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:42:32PM +, Daniel Bye wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:23:06PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I have managed to build OO on a machine of the same architecture as I want > > to run it oon. The target machine does not seem to be capable of building > > it. I suspect that it

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-03 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 12:45:11PM +, Matthew Seaman wrote: > RW wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:30:12 + > > Vincent Hoffman wrote: > >> Admittedly this doesn't give a file by file checksum > > > > That's not really a problem, it's no easier to create a collision > > in a .gz file than

Re: Createing a package.

2009-01-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:23:06 -0500, stan wrote: > Can I create a package on the "donor" machine to move this to the target > machine? Or is there a better way to do this? Make sure a directory /usr/ports/packages exists. In the directory where you built the port, call # make package and

Re: how to remove "-KVCD.stats"?

2009-01-03 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:48:09 -0500, "Tsu-Fan Cheng" wrote: > Hi, >due to using mkxvcd to convert avi to mpg, I sometimes generates > "-KVCD.stas" file. How can I remove this? every time I run: > > rm -f \-KVCD.stats > > or > > rm -f "_KVCD.stas" > > it says: > > rm: illegal option -- K > u

Setting up a PDF printer

2009-01-03 Thread Keith Seyffarth
What do I need to install to make printing a pdf from the print command in an appliction as an option. It looks like panda may do this, but I'm unsure. My immediate goal is to be able to print invoices to .pdf from gnucash. ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: Createing a package.

2009-01-03 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 12:23:06 -0500, stan wrote: > I have managed to build OO on a machine of the same architecture as I want > to run it oon. The target machine does not seem to be capable of building > it. I suspect that it does not have enough memory. > > Can I create a package on the "donor" mac

Re: Setting up a PDF printer

2009-01-03 Thread Keith Seyffarth
> If you're using the cups printing subsystem you can use the cups-pdf > port/package. > > You end up with the pdf's deposited in /var/spool/cups-pdf/USERNAME. I don't have any printing installed currently. I may be getting a printer for this machine at some point in the future (at which point I'

Re: two ethernet cards

2009-01-03 Thread Derek Ragona
At 06:21 PM 1/2/2009, Stefan Miklosovic wrote: hi i have two ethernet cards on my box uname -a FreeBSD dexter 7.0-RELEASE Freebsd 7.0-RELEASE #5: Fri Jan 2 21:25:21 CET 2009 r...@dexter:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEXTER i386 ifconfig rl0: flags=8843 metric 0 mtu 1500 options=8 ether XX:

Re: Setting up a PDF printer

2009-01-03 Thread George Hartzell
Keith Seyffarth writes: > > What do I need to install to make printing a pdf from the print > command in an appliction as an option. > > It looks like panda may do this, but I'm unsure. > > My immediate goal is to be able to print invoices to .pdf from > gnucash. If you're using the cup

Re: Setting up a PDF printer

2009-01-03 Thread George Hartzell
Keith Seyffarth writes: > > If you're using the cups printing subsystem you can use the cups-pdf > > port/package. > > > > You end up with the pdf's deposited in /var/spool/cups-pdf/USERNAME. > > I don't have any printing installed currently. I may be getting a > printer for this machine a

Re: Setting up a PDF printer

2009-01-03 Thread Matthew Seaman
Keith Seyffarth wrote: If you're using the cups printing subsystem you can use the cups-pdf port/package. You end up with the pdf's deposited in /var/spool/cups-pdf/USERNAME. I don't have any printing installed currently. I may be getting a printer for this machine at some point in the future

Re: HowTo configure WPA[2] ath0 [wlan0] on up to date 8.0-CURRENT

2009-01-03 Thread maddae...@gmail.com
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 11:09 AM, wrote: > Quoting "maddae...@gmail.com" : > >> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:36 AM, wrote: >>> >>> I'm currently using wep at home and in the office configured from >>> rc.conf. >>> example: >>> ifconfig_wlan0="DHCP ssid virus wepmode on wepkey 1:0x2373FE9515 weptxke

Re: two ethernet cards

2009-01-03 Thread maddae...@gmail.com
On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 3:24 PM, Derek Ragona wrote: > At 06:21 PM 1/2/2009, Stefan Miklosovic wrote: >> >> hi >> >> i have two ethernet cards on my box >> >> uname -a >> FreeBSD dexter 7.0-RELEASE Freebsd 7.0-RELEASE #5: Fri Jan 2 21:25:21 >> CET >> 2009 r...@dexter:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DEXTER

Portuguese accents

2009-01-03 Thread Daniel Leal
Hi! I am portuguese, and so I need accents above a few letter, like a, e and i. I mean: ã â á à é è í ì ê, etc etc etc... I am really confused with the accents. In most X apps these accents work well, but for example, in a xterm, with the "ee" editor, I can write the accented letter correctly

MD5 vs. SHA1: hashed passwords in /etc/master.passwd - can we configure SHA1 as default in /etc/login.conf?

2009-01-03 Thread O. Hartmann
MD5 seems to be compromised by potential collision attacks. So I tried to figure out how I can use another hash for security purposes when hashing passwords for local users on a FreeBSD 7/8 box, like root or local box administration. Looking at man login.conf reveals only three possible hash algori

PHP5, Apache, and ampcache port

2009-01-03 Thread stan
I am trying to get ampcache up to let some friends of mine access some music. I am having troubles getting all of this to work, ad the install instructions on the ampcache web site assume a level of knowledge about Apache, and php that I don't yet have. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-12-14 - 2009-01-03

2009-01-03 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 maili

Re: Foiling MITM attacks on source and ports trees

2009-01-03 Thread RW
On Sat, 3 Jan 2009 19:46:59 +0100 cpghost wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 01:38:25AM +, RW wrote: > > On Fri, 02 Jan 2009 17:30:12 + > > Vincent Hoffman wrote: > > > Admittedly this doesn't give a file by file checksum > > > > That's not really a problem, it's no easier to create a col

PHP setup question

2009-01-03 Thread stan
I am trying to get the ampcache port working on a 7.1 machine. I have installed the port, which puts it's files in /usr/local/www/a,pcache. I have my Apache serer configured to use /usr/local/www/data as it's documentroot: DocumentRoot "/usr/local/www/data" I made the php5 port, with a configurat

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-03 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:29:27PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 08:03:32PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > I am trying to get the ampcache port working on a 7.1 machine. I have > > installed the port, which puts it's files in /usr/local/www/a,pcache. I > > have my Apache sere

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-03 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 09:35:18PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:15:01PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > Hmm, I thoght my Follow Symlinks directive would fix that. But I removed > > that link, made teh changes you sugested, and now I get: > > > > The requested URL /update.ph

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-03 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:09:43PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:55:56PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > You should be able to see this, if you point your browswer at > > beachcave.net/ampache BTW beachcave.net/test.php is working, I got that > > from: > > http://beachcave

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-03 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:09:43PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:55:56PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > You should be able to see this, if you point your browswer at > > beachcave.net/ampache BTW beachcave.net/test.php is working, I got that > > from: > > http://beachcave

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-03 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:09:43PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:55:56PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > You should be able to see this, if you point your browswer at > > beachcave.net/ampache BTW beachcave.net/test.php is working, I got that > > from: > > http://beachcave

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-03 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:42:37PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:24:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > > > Looks as though you have a problem with your database. > > > > Probably. It's a new machine, and I have not got anything that depends on > > MySQL running yet. I fi

Re: PHP setup question

2009-01-03 Thread stan
On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 10:42:37PM -0600, Kelly D. Grills wrote: > On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:24:02PM -0500, stan wrote: > > > > > > Looks as though you have a problem with your database. > > > > Probably. It's a new machine, and I have not got anything that depends on > > MySQL running yet. I fi

Suggestion

2009-01-03 Thread Ryan da Silva
Hello, If someone could pass this suggestion on i'd appreciate it. It's going to sound a little picky, and probably crazy but I'm an honest and forward person so I'll just say it. Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo "FreeBSD" is displayed in large font with,

Troubles upgrading from 6.3 to 7

2009-01-03 Thread Steven Barre
Hello I am new to bsd. I'm trying to upgrade from 6.3 Release to the latest stable 7. I created the following csup file *default host=cvsup1.ca.FreeBSD.org *default base=/var/db *default prefix=/usr *default release=cvs tag=RELENG_7 *default delete use-rel-suffix *default compress src-all I

Re: Suggestion

2009-01-03 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sun, 4 Jan 2009, Ryan da Silva wrote: Someone needs to change the FreeBSD boot menu. The way the word/logo "FreeBSD" is displayed in large font with, ASCII characters, reminds me of the 1990`s with BBS`s. Enable beastie and you won't have to look at the ugly letters. -- Lars Eighner http:/