Re: NFSv2 Wrong FS Size

2009-02-05 Thread perryh
you could rebuild df to print its numbers as unsigned instead of signed. Just watch out if your local filesystems start eating into their 8% reserve, since they'll start reporting huge values. Or patch df to print local filesystem sizes as signed -- so that the reserve

Re: Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-02-05 Thread cwt
Ulrich Spörlein wrote: On Fri, 30.01.2009 at 23:19:41 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new xorg-7.4 and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package twice now firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting with

Re: OT: SVN checkout checksumming

2009-02-05 Thread perryh
I want to use SVN to automate the update process of a custom application. So, I'm planning to indicate to every PC to update periodically to a specific branch of the repository. The problem is that I need to be sure the files where not corrupted during the transfer. So, I'm planning to

Re: Graphics tablet / Xorg / mouse problems

2009-02-05 Thread Rainer Hurling
I think it should be sufficient to set hald_enable=FALSE in etc/rc.conf to deactivate hald instead of chmod usr/local/etc/rc.d/hald. Rainer Am 04.02.2009 05:23 (UTC+1) schrieb Antonio Rieser: Hi, Thanks a million for your help. Many thanks to Bartosz, too! Just to be sure I understood how

broken ports

2009-02-05 Thread David Collins
Hi, I am not sure if this is better here or in the ports list, but I thought that since it is something that I have done because I don't know what I am doing here would be better A while ago I installed ports and everything was working fine. Recently I thought one of my ports was causing my

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-05 Thread Yavuz
Ok. I increased vfs.read_max while I was looking into this case in google, I see a value of MAXPHYS in my kernel, there is a value called MAXPHYS=(128*1024) as default. What should I set this value ? Yavuz wrote: I have freebsd7 (amd64 bit) and sata2 disk 7200 rpm. it's running mail

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
while I was looking into this case in google, I see a value of MAXPHYS in my kernel, there is a value called MAXPHYS=(128*1024) as default. What should I set this value ? i use 1024*1024 Yavuz wrote: I have freebsd7 (amd64 bit) and sata2 disk 7200 rpm. it's running mail server which

Re: broken ports

2009-02-05 Thread Dominic Fandrey
David Collins wrote: Hi, I am not sure if this is better here or in the ports list, but I thought that since it is something that I have done because I don't know what I am doing here would be better A while ago I installed ports and everything was working fine. Recently I thought one of

Re: is there any way to increase disk performance ?

2009-02-05 Thread Ivan Voras
Yavuz wrote: Ok. I increased vfs.read_max while I was looking into this case in google, I see a value of MAXPHYS in my kernel, there is a value called MAXPHYS=(128*1024) as default. What should I set this value ? Neither vfs.read_max nor MAXPHYS will help a mail server (or any other server

Re: policykit fails to build on 7.1-stable i386

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 02:34:35PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: I think portupgrade -f p5-XML-Parser got me over the hurdle. There was !!! a file missing altho the port was installed. Forced it to build and !!! reinstall and things were able to build once again. Someone (maintainer or

Re: Xorg upgrade desaster: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0.

2009-02-05 Thread O. Hartmann
Ulrich Spörlein wrote: On Fri, 30.01.2009 at 23:19:41 +0100, O. Hartmann wrote: After upgrading one of my FreeBSD 8.0-CUR/amd64 boxes to new xorg-7.4 and having done hurting recompiling nearly everything/package twice now firefox3 still doesn't work properly and hits me when starting with this

xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: # xdm # ps ax|grep xdm 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm # cat /var/log/xdm.log # So no xdm daemon. My system: FreeBSD 6.4-STABLE alpha, xdm-1.1.8_1. Any ideas? -- Anton Shterenlikht Room 2.6, Queen's Building Mech Eng Dept Bristol

xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-05 Thread Robert Huff
Anton Shterenlikht writes: After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: # xdm # ps ax|grep xdm 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm # cat /var/log/xdm.log Any ideas? 1) May we see /var/log/Xorg.0.log? 2) Does startx work?

Re: broken ports

2009-02-05 Thread David Collins
Sorry, forgot about that. Looking at it again I am not sure this is a ports thing, and more of an issue with the compiling tool chain. viper:/usr/ports/net-p2p/rtorrent$ sudo make === Vulnerability check disabled, database not found === Found saved configuration for rtorrent-0.8.2_1 =

Re: xdm doesn't run as daemon

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 08:01:25AM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Anton Shterenlikht writes: After upgrades of 23-24 Jan 2009 xdm is not working: # xdm # ps ax|grep xdm 75632 p1 S+ 0:00.01 grep xdm # cat /var/log/xdm.log Any ideas? 1) May we see

Re: Problem gdm 2.24, xdmcp D-BUS?

2009-02-05 Thread Klaus Friis Østergaard
2009/2/1 Klaus Friis Østergaard farremo...@gmail.com: On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 04:03:10PM +0100, Klaus Friis Østergaard wrote: I tried to remove the directories that was not removed by deinstall manually, and then installed again, now no complaints about not being able

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo laptop. It used to dualboot with windows xp and gentoo linux, but I decided to give FreeBSD a try instead, so now it dualboots with windows and FreeBSD. My biggest problem is

After upgrade problems with many open files

2009-02-05 Thread Klaus Friis Østergaard
Hi, After I recently update my 7.0 Freebsd Box I have now a small problem with performance and many open files. This has not een an issue before so I don't know what a nornal level is, but at the moment I have increased the kern.maxfiles from 12.000 to 60.000, and the system uses between 22.000

newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Can anyone recommend a newsletter application , preferably where I can just have an ordinary user login via a webpage , upload a file/message/ and click send? I was playing with mailman , but that seems to be a list serve app. tia ___

How to change default boot loader location

2009-02-05 Thread Victor M. Blood
Hi, All. I have a SATA-II disk, which split for 4 primary partitions, eg: 1. NTFS (Active) / ntldr 2. BSD (/var, /usr) 4. NTFS 3. BSD (/, swap) * partitions showed as 'how it's phisicaly placed on drive' Used bootpart I have create 'freebsd.bin' and try to loadup it into ntldr, boot.ini eg:

Re: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:31:56AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Can anyone recommend a newsletter application , preferably where I can just have an ordinary user login via a webpage , upload a file/message/ and click send? I was playing with mailman , but that seems to be a list serve app.

about upgrade

2009-02-05 Thread Yavuz
I have a freebsd7.0-stable how can I upgrade this to freebsd7.1-release ? is there a way for this one which from stable to release ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: about upgrade

2009-02-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Yavuz mas...@ihlas.net.tr wrote: I have a freebsd7.0-stable how can I upgrade this to freebsd7.1-release ? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/updating-upgrading.html -- Glen Barber ___

Re: system time on top output

2009-02-05 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 5 Feb 2009 00:00:35 +0200 Omer Faruk Sen omerf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a running pgsql server but on heavy loads it consumes lots of time in system (more than %50). I can see that CPU states: 15.4% user, 0.0% nice, 81.9% system, 1.5% interrupt, 1.2% idle But how can I

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Lars Lonne
2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo laptop. It used to dualboot with windows xp and gentoo linux, but I decided to give FreeBSD a try instead, so now it dualboots with

Re: about upgrade

2009-02-05 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 06:45:00PM +0200, Yavuz wrote: I have a freebsd7.0-stable how can I upgrade this to freebsd7.1-release ? is there a way for this one which from stable to release ? you mean to 7.1-release instead of 7.1-stable? what about tag=RELENG_7_1 in cvsup? see appendix

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 2/5/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo laptop. It used to dualboot with windows xp and gentoo linux, but I decided to give

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Lars Lonne
2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 2/5/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo laptop. It used to dualboot with windows

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 2/5/09, Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/5/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my Compaq Evo laptop. It used to dualboot with

Re: No wifi signal with usb antenna (rum driver)

2009-02-05 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 2/5/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 2/5/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/2/5 Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com: On 2/4/09, Lars Lonne lonnel...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I have recently installed FreeBSD-7.1-RELEASE on my

Generating packages from ports without docs

2009-02-05 Thread Matias Surdi
Hi, When I build a package with make package for a port, the resulting package contains also the docs (which upon installatin are located in /usr/local/share/doc/[package] Which is the best way to not include those files in the generated package? Thanks a lot.

Shrink a Slice? FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread perikillo
Hi people. I have been googling without any good info about: How to shrink a slice? Case: I installed a new server for mysql, is working, I already install all the ports I need, them I spend a lot of hours yesterday with this baby, now this is my current disk layout: /dev/ad0s1a on /

RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
-Original Message- From: Geoff Fritz [mailto:gfr...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 11:26 AM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: newsletter APP NOT listserve On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 09:31:56AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Can anyone recommend a

RE: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread Graeme Dargie
-Original Message- From: FreeBSD [mailto:free...@optiksecurite.com] Sent: 04 February 2009 21:55 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Link UP/DOWN problem with re0 on FreeBSD 7.1 FreeBSD a écrit : Graeme Dargie a écrit : If you do a dmesg are you also showing a watchdog time

Re: Shrink a Slice? FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-05 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 12:19:13PM -0800, perikillo wrote: Hi people. I have been googling without any good info about: How to shrink a slice? Case: I installed a new server for mysql, is working, I already install all the ports I need, them I spend a lot of hours yesterday with

Re: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 03:55:17PM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: _- Well the server I plan to run it a VPS server, so I REALLY DON'T know what the specs are on the box- and since it's not dedicated I have no clue what else

Re: Generating packages from ports without docs

2009-02-05 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matias Surdi wrote: Hi, When I build a package with make package for a port, the resulting package contains also the docs (which upon installatin are located in /usr/local/share/doc/[package] Which is the best way to not include those files

usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread Yavuz
I use freebsd7.0 I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap. my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte swap, I saw that run out of memory when I see with top command. Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ? What do I have to do ?

Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I use freebsd7.0 I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap. my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte swap, I saw that run out of memory when I see with top command. Why doesn't the machine use swap properly ? it does What do I have to do ? nothing

problem with date, dump or restore

2009-02-05 Thread Ivan Dimitrov
Hi list, with freebsd 7.0, after a probably successful dump : #dump -0Lauf ./ad0s1f.dump /dev/ad0s1f DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Feb 5 07:18:58 2009 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping snapshot of /dev/ad0s1f (/usr) to ./ad0s1f.dump DUMP: mapping (Pass I)

Re: Multiple MAC on a single (physical) interface

2009-02-05 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
Frédéric Perrin wrote: Hello, I live in a network where it is pretty much assumed that one machine == one MAC address == one IP address. Therefore, in order to play with jails, some having of course access to the network, I need to be able to send and receive using several MAC addresses, as if

RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
The learning curve? That entirely depends on how comfortble you are with configuring applications on Unix/Linux servers in general. If you've never set up a web server, then it will take you some time to get things nailed down correctly. If you merely have not installed Apache before, as

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jaime wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:35 AM, t-u-t marshc...@gmail.com wrote: if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any said function like cp, mv, rm, etc.. , to all other files except that one or two, is there a way to do that in a

problem mounting dvd ISO

2009-02-05 Thread cguan
Hi, I'm trying to mount a w2k8 dvd iso image on freebsd 7 using mdconfig and mount -t cd9660. the commands appeared to be working fine but when I look at the mount point I only see a readme.txt file reads: This disc contains a UDF file system and requires an operating system that supports the

Re: shell commands - exclusion

2009-02-05 Thread Paul Procacci
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Jaime wrote: On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 9:35 AM, t-u-t marshc...@gmail.com wrote: if i have say one (or even two) single file/directories among many others, and i want to perform any said function like cp, mv, rm, etc.. , to all other files except that one or two, is there

RE: newsletter APP NOT listserve

2009-02-05 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Ideally, stats, subscribe, unsubscribe, and let the person in charge have the ability to be able to select the recipients for a particular letter based on a field or combination of two fields. i.e. send to all contacts that are doctors or send to all contacts that are doctors and are in the

problem rsycing with remote dir

2009-02-05 Thread David Karapetyan
Hello everyone. I am using the --backup flag in rsync to save incremental changes that rsync makes when I sync a directory on my laptop with my remote server. Please look at my pastebin code: http://pastebin.com/m16a3ce38On The problem is that I end up generating an

Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread RW
On Fri, 6 Feb 2009 00:33:40 +0200 Yavuz mas...@ihlas.net.tr wrote: I use freebsd7.0 I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap. my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte swap, I saw that run out of memory when I see with top command. Why doesn't the machine use swap

Re: usage of swap file

2009-02-05 Thread Glen Barber
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: I use freebsd7.0 I have 2 Gbyte RAM and 4 Gbyte Swap. my system sometimes need more memory and although there was 3.90 Gbyte swap, I saw that run out of memory when I see with top command. Why doesn't the

RTL8201 not explicitly in 7.1 supported hardware

2009-02-05 Thread Len Conrad
A client wants to buy some TigerDirect/VisionMan 1U's with this mobo: http://www.biostar-usa.com/mbdetails.asp?model=P4M900%20MICRO%20775 RTL8201 PHY Ethernet http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.1R/hardware.html ... shows only RTL81xx has anybody got RTL8201 working with FreeBSD 7.1, 7.0?

Re: problem mounting dvd ISO

2009-02-05 Thread Michael Powell
cguan wrote: Hi, I'm trying to mount a w2k8 dvd iso image on freebsd 7 using mdconfig and mount -t cd9660. the commands appeared to be working fine but when I look at the mount point I only see a readme.txt file reads: This disc contains a UDF file system and requires an operating

having trouble with OpenOffice

2009-02-05 Thread af300wsm
Hi, Tonight I finally took the bull by the horns and got OpenOffice installed. However, I'm not having a problem that I haven't found an answer to yet but seems to be related to the X server (from searches on the net). So, I do this: [a...@sniper /usr/home/andy]$

Re: problem mounting dvd ISO

2009-02-05 Thread cguan
yes, I did. # kldstat -v | grep udf 42 0xc44bd000 7000 udf.ko 419 udf 51 0xc4498000 2000 udf_iconv.ko 423 udf_iconv # mount -t udf /dev/md0 ../iso_mount/w2k8-amd64 mount_udf: /dev/md0: Invalid argument # Is it possible the udf version is too

Re: Xlib: extension Generic Event Extension missing on display :0.0

2009-02-05 Thread Da Rock
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 08:53 +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: I'm using the radeonhd driver and am getting the message also. Video card is the ati mobility radeon x1600. On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 06:48:40PM -0500, Robert Huff wrote: Da Rock writes: X is working fine here on a Radeon

xine-remote crashes xine

2009-02-05 Thread Da Rock
OK. Xine works (plays, etc), I can connect with xine-remote (from another m/c) and identify. However, if I send the 'mrl play content here' xine crashes and I get the following error: cannot read request from client (0/2112/Resource temporarily unavailable) could not handle external client

Flash9 and FreeBSD7.0 isssue

2009-02-05 Thread dhaneshk k
Hi list, I followed http://freebsd.langhans.com.pl/af/index.html To enable flash9 support for FreeBSD7.0 I installed FreeBSD7.0 with Linux compatibility so the first step (1.3 ) I skipped second step I followed and installed latestfirefox-devel then I installed

Slow DNS (and host: connection timed out)

2009-02-05 Thread David Naylor
Hi, My ISP is using a WinGate DNS but resolving host names often takes a long time. The problem is also present in Konqueror (3 4) and Firefox. An example: # time host google.co.za google.co.za has address 66.249.93.104 google.co.za has address 72.14.207.104 google.co.za has address