box reboot after hdd write error

2010-08-18 Thread claudiu vasadi
Hello fellas, My system is a 8.0-RELEASE with 6 hdd's. 2 days ago I had some power failures and 2 disks were affected. These 2 hdd;s are connected to atapci0: SiI 3512 SATA150 controller port 0xd000-0xd007,0xd100-0xd103,0xd200-0xd207,0xd300-0xd303,0xd400-0xd40f mem 0xfa4a-0xfa4a01ff irq 12 at

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-18 Thread Roland Smith
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Re: box reboot after hdd write error

2010-08-18 Thread Rocky Borg
On 8/17/2010 11:37 PM, claudiu vasadi wrote: Hello fellas, My system is a 8.0-RELEASE with 6 hdd's. 2 days ago I had some power failures and 2 disks were affected. These 2 hdd;s are connected to atapci0: SiI 3512 SATA150 controller port

how to run task periodically

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Stapper
Hi, I have a system that doesn't run 24/7/365. I would like to make sure that some tasks (like updating the ports tree) run weekly/monthly etc. As the system isn't on 24/7 the cron job I usually run for these tasks doesn't work as the machine isn't always running on the scheduled time. So I

Fwd: box reboot after hdd write error

2010-08-18 Thread claudiu vasadi
How often is it rebooting? Only after the write failure. If I do read from the disks, everything is fine If it's just data disks you could unplug them to see if the machine still reboots. That would let you know for sure if they really are the problem or if it's something else. I could

Re: how to run task periodically

2010-08-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl wrote: So I need a utility that enable me to say: if a week has passed since the last run, run this command. Is there such a utlility? /usr/ports/sysutils/anacron -- Adam Vande More

Re: Where is firefox-devel?

2010-08-18 Thread Beat Gaetzi
On 18.08.2010 04:21, jhell wrote: On 08/17/2010 14:04, Unga wrote: Hi all Could I know what is the complete web path for branches/experimental/www/firefox-devel/? This is mentioned in following mail: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-gecko/2010-August/001054.html Looks to

Re: how to run task periodically

2010-08-18 Thread Antonio Vieiro
crontab -e ? See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron Cheers, Antonio 2010/8/18 Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl:  Hi, I have a system that doesn't run 24/7/365. I would like to make sure that some tasks (like updating the ports tree) run weekly/monthly etc. As the system isn't on 24/7 the cron

Re: how to run task periodically

2010-08-18 Thread Jeff Laine
On 08/18/2010 10:58, Mark Stapper wrote: Hi, I have a system that doesn't run 24/7/365. I would like to make sure that some tasks (like updating the ports tree) run weekly/monthly etc. As the system isn't on 24/7 the cron job I usually run for these tasks doesn't work as the machine isn't

Hibernation

2010-08-18 Thread Depo Catcher
I can't find any good docs or guides to this. I checked the handbook, but had a bunch of references to 5.x. Can anyone point me to the right direction? I'd like to go with FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 for my next system. Hibernation and Wake on Lan would both be useful.

Re: ZFS not usable on FreeBSD-8.1

2010-08-18 Thread Dick Hoogendijk
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Re: how to run task periodically

2010-08-18 Thread Mark Stapper
On 18-8-2010 9:22, Adam Vande More wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:58 AM, Mark Stapper st...@mapper.nl mailto:st...@mapper.nl wrote: So I need a utility that enable me to say: if a week has passed since the last run, run this command. Is there such a utlility?

Re: Where is firefox-devel?

2010-08-18 Thread Unga
--- On Wed, 8/18/10, Beat Gaetzi b...@freebsd.org wrote: From: Beat Gaetzi b...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Where is firefox-devel? To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Cc: jhell jh...@dataix.net, Unga unga...@yahoo.com Date: Wednesday, August 18, 2010, 3:35 PM On 18.08.2010

Re: Hibernation

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Cran
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:55:12 -0500 Depo Catcher depocatc...@gmail.com wrote: I can't find any good docs or guides to this. I checked the handbook, but had a bunch of references to 5.x. Can anyone point me to the right direction? I'd like to go with FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 for my next system.

clamav issues

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Macdonald
Hi, I'm having some problems with a clamav install and wondered if anyone had any suggestions. As of a few days ago i noticed mail was getting rejected with 451 retry codes. Checking the milters this appeared to be clamav, and removing this milter fixed the problem. Afterwards, on

Re: clamav issues

2010-08-18 Thread Jerry
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:25:21 +0100 Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com articulated: I'm having some problems with a clamav install and wondered if anyone had any suggestions. As of a few days ago i noticed mail was getting rejected with 451 retry codes. Checking the milters this appeared to

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

2010-08-18 Thread Ivan Klymenko
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Extracting a variable listing

2010-08-18 Thread Jack L. Stone
Sorry to return to the trough again for script help, but find excellent answers here when all else fails, and I am not very good at it. Trying to develop a script (non-bash) that will extract a variable list of content on a daily basis so I can add it to a master list. Once I have this, I can do

Re: Extracting a variable listing

2010-08-18 Thread A. Wright
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Jack L. Stone wrote: The content I need will always fall beneath a row of pound signs, and there is content above that row I don't want, like this: bunch of rows I don't need here ### --- the top of stuff needed row1 If you want the '#' line

fix bad directory on FAT32 usb disk

2010-08-18 Thread Fbsd8
I have a fat32 usb disk that gives this error when mounting with mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1bad fat32 file system Is there some way to clean or auto fix this fat32 file system so it will mount? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: fix bad directory on FAT32 usb disk

2010-08-18 Thread Glen Barber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/18/10 9:55 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: I have a fat32 usb disk that gives this error when mounting with mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1bad fat32 file system Is there some way to clean or auto fix this fat32 file system so it will mount? Hi, You can try

Re: Extracting a variable listing

2010-08-18 Thread Jack L. Stone
At 10:53 AM 8.18.2010 -0300, A. Wright wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Jack L. Stone wrote: The content I need will always fall beneath a row of pound signs, and there is content above that row I don't want, like this: bunch of rows I don't need here ### --- the top

Re: Extracting a variable listing

2010-08-18 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, August 18, 2010 a las 09:22:37AM -0500, Jack L. Stone escribió: At 10:53 AM 8.18.2010 -0300, A. Wright wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010, Jack L. Stone wrote: The content I need will always fall beneath a row of pound signs, and there is content above that row I don't want,

Re: Extracting a variable listing

2010-08-18 Thread Dr. A. Haakh
Jack L. Stone schrieb: Sorry to return to the trough again for script help, but find excellent answers here when all else fails, and I am not very good at it. Trying to develop a script (non-bash) that will extract a variable list of content on a daily basis so I can add it to a master list.

BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread Aleksandr Miroslav
hello, I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of total/used/free memory and swap. I know there are a number of utilities in ports that will let me do this, I am however looking for something in the base system

Re: Extracting a variable listing

2010-08-18 Thread Dr. Andreas Haakh
Dr. A. Haakh schrieb: Jack L. Stone schrieb: Sorry to return to the trough again for script help, but find excellent answers here when all else fails, and I am not very good at it. Trying to develop a script (non-bash) that will extract a variable list of content on a daily basis so I can

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Macdonald
On 18/08/2010 16:18, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: hello, I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of total/used/free memory and swap. I know there are a number of utilities in ports that will let me do this, I am

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

2010-08-18 Thread C. Bergström
Hi Oliver, The problem behind the subject is a little bit frustrating, so I do not know were to start. Yeah it's a pretty big problem, but I can say others are looking at it and taking small steps in the right direction. First, and this hasn't changed since the last 15 years, FreeBSD lack in

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread Chris Maness
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: hello, I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of total/used/free memory and swap. I know there are a number of utilities in

Re: Extracting a variable listing

2010-08-18 Thread Robert Bonomi
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 17:14:50 +0200 From: Dr. A. Haakh bugrepor...@haakh.de Subject: Re: Extracting a variable listing Jack L. Stone schrieb: The content I need will always fall beneath a row of pound signs, and there is content above that row I don't want, like this: bunch of

Can't control laptop's lid... how to debug?

2010-08-18 Thread Antonio Vieiro
Hi all, I am unable to control my laptop's lid. Whenever I close the lid the system enters a weird state and I have to reboot. I've already added #Lid switch notify 0 { match system ACPI; match subsystem Lid; match notify 0x00; action xset dpms force off; }; notify 0 { match system ACPI;

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

2010-08-18 Thread emorras
Hi Christopher, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com escribió: PathScale and CAPS recently announced HMPP as a new manycore GPGPU open standard and there's a chance you'll see it ported to FBSD. In addition to this you could see other open standards working well on FBSD, but that

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread RW
On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:18:58 -0400 Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: hello, I am looking for something on BSD that will give me the same info as free(1) in Linux. i.e. I would like to know the state of total/used/free memory and swap. I know there are a number of utilities

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread Aleksandr Miroslav
on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Would not the info displayed in the command top suffice? Yes, top -n 1 does (sort of) display the info I need. The swap portion gives me the same info as Linux free, the memory portion is more cryptic, I guess due to

Re: Can't control laptop's lid... how to debug?

2010-08-18 Thread Roland Smith
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:24:27PM +0200, Antonio Vieiro wrote: Hi all, I am unable to control my laptop's lid. Whenever I close the lid the system enters a weird state and I have to reboot. Are you sure you need to? My laptop automatically switches of the screen when the lid is closed.

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread Aleksandr Miroslav
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:41 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: Is there any particular reason you want to know? Free memory isn't a very meaningful concept in FreeBSD. I have a webserver that had it's Apache killed this morning. The box itself had been stable for several years, as well

FreeBSD Additional Contributors List

2010-08-18 Thread exprim
Dear Sir I am writing this e-mail to ask whether or not it is possible to change my entry in the FreeBSD additional contributors list so that it does not contain my nickname and e-mail but my real name instead? If so, who should I contact in order to accomplish that? Thank you very much in

Re: FreeBSD Additional Contributors List

2010-08-18 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 exp...@deviate.fi wrote: Dear Sir I am writing this e-mail to ask whether or not it is possible to change my entry in the FreeBSD additional contributors list so that it does not contain my nickname and e-mail but my real name instead? If so,

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Wednesday, August 18, 2010 14:14:25 -0400 Aleksandr Miroslav alexmiros...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 1:41 PM, RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com wrote: Is there any particular reason you want to know? Free memory isn't a very meaningful concept in FreeBSD. I have a webserver

Re: clamav issues

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Macdonald
Jerry wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:25:21 +0100 Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com articulated: I'm having some problems with a clamav install and wondered if anyone had any suggestions. As of a few days ago i noticed mail was getting rejected with 451 retry codes. Checking the milters this

Re: FreeBSD, GPGPU and OpenCL/CUDA

2010-08-18 Thread C. Bergström
emor...@xroff.net wrote: Hi Christopher, C. Bergström cbergst...@pathscale.com escribió: PathScale and CAPS recently announced HMPP as a new manycore GPGPU open standard and there's a chance you'll see it ported to FBSD. In addition to this you could see other open standards working well on

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread Mike Jeays
On August 18, 2010 02:06:08 pm Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Would not the info displayed in the command top suffice? Yes, top -n 1 does (sort of) display the info I need. The swap portion gives me the same info as

Re: clamav issues

2010-08-18 Thread Paul Macdonald
Paul Macdonald wrote: Jerry wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 12:25:21 +0100 Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com articulated: I'm having some problems with a clamav install and wondered if anyone had any suggestions. As of a few days ago i noticed mail was getting rejected with 451 retry codes.

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread Jason
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 05:08:35PM -0400, Mike Jeays thus spake: On August 18, 2010 02:06:08 pm Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris maness ch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Would not the info displayed in the command top suffice? Yes, top -n 1 does (sort of) display

Re: Hibernation

2010-08-18 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/18/2010 5:26 AM, Bruce Cran wrote: On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 03:55:12 -0500 Depo Catcherdepocatc...@gmail.com wrote: I can't find any good docs or guides to this. I checked the handbook, but had a bunch of references to 5.x. Can anyone point me to the right direction? I'd like to go

Re: fix bad directory on FAT32 usb disk

2010-08-18 Thread Fbsd8
Glen Barber wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8/18/10 9:55 AM, Fbsd8 wrote: I have a fat32 usb disk that gives this error when mounting with mount_msdosfs /dev/da0s1bad fat32 file system Is there some way to clean or auto fix this fat32 file system so it will mount?

well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread Gary Kline
ok guys, i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit. i figured i would wait until fall to ask, but it's close enough. can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip. i have trouble on my 2003 dell that has a

Re: Grepping a list of words

2010-08-18 Thread gs_stol...@juno.com
If I remember correctly, grep (and all its associated versions) accept -v as an option which reports the entries in the list that don't match. Using gref (which is given the name[s] of files) uses those files as a list of the patterns to match.

Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread C. Bergström
Gary Kline wrote: ok guys, i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit. i figured i would wait until fall to ask, but it's close enough. can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip. (Disclaimer I work for

Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread C. Bergström
Gary Kline wrote: ok guys, i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit. i figured i would wait until fall to ask, but it's close enough. can i watch a streamed movie on am atom [[[1.6ghz intel]]] chip. i have trouble on my 2003

Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 10:10 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: ok guys, i have been waiting for [a] a better/faster/more generally useful computer as well as =mostly= cheaper unit.  i figured i would wait until fall to ask, but it's close enough. can i watch a streamed movie on am

[off-topic] Server-side IRC channel logging? (not statistics)

2010-08-18 Thread Glen Barber
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I recently set up an IRC server (irc/ircd-hybrid), which I don't see obvious settings for finely tuned channel logging. What I would like to do is log individual channels without depending on a connected client. In all my searching I found

Re: enabling the fn-f7 switch monitor functionality

2010-08-18 Thread Eitan Adler
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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/18/2010 8:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote: 've hesitated. on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly flawlessly. So if i buy one of the notebooks with a Stream what kind of movies? Some video players (like VLC) have hardware acceleration that will help a lot if your video card/driver supports it.

Re: BSD equivalent of Linux's free(1)?

2010-08-18 Thread Depo Catcher
On 8/18/2010 1:06 PM, Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: on wed, aug 18, 2010 at 1:04 pm, chris manessch...@chrismaness.com wrote: Would not the info displayed in the command top suffice? Yes, top -n 1 does (sort of) display the info I need. The swap portion gives me the same info as Linux free,

Re: enabling the fn-f7 switch monitor functionality

2010-08-18 Thread jhell
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Re: well, i guess it's time to ask.....

2010-08-18 Thread Charlie Kester
On Wed 18 Aug 2010 at 20:16:51 PDT Depo Catcher wrote: On 8/18/2010 8:10 PM, Gary Kline wrote: 've hesitated. on my 3.0gh thinkpad, streams fly flawlessly. So if i buy one of the notebooks with a Stream what kind of movies? Some video players (like VLC) have hardware acceleration that

Xorg Problems

2010-08-18 Thread Rem Roberti
I'm having trouble with xorg on a new 8.1 installation. I haven't installed a wm yet, but when I try to call up the generic x windows by typing startx they do indeed appear, but all three of the x windows are locked up. By that I mean that there is no mouse, and no possibility of entering

Re: Not booting after freebsd install

2010-08-18 Thread Bruce Cran
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Installation problem

2010-08-18 Thread Derek Schwartz
Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard drive was wiped clean. I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard drive by using my Linux Ubuntu Disk Utility, I changed it to {0-a5} which I heard was for

sendmail, queue intervals and ETRN

2010-08-18 Thread David Allen
I've had the following setup at home for a number of years: mailhub smarthost --- intarwebs Everything works as intended, of course, but I'd like to change the setup to accomodate the mailhub host being powered off at night. After it's restarted in the morning (or whenever), the mailhub

Re: Installation problem

2010-08-18 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 01:01:08 -0400, Derek Schwartz derekschwart...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, I'm trying to install the latest release of FreeBSD on my Dell Desktop, the computer originally had windows XP, but then the hard drive was wiped clean. I tried reconfiguring the geometry of the hard

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-18 Thread Rem Roberti
Ondrej Majerech wrote: On 19-Aug-10 13:20, Rem Roberti wrote: I'm having trouble with xorg on a new 8.1 installation. I haven't installed a wm yet, but when I try to call up the generic x windows by typing startx they do indeed appear, but all three of the x windows are locked up. By that I

Re: Xorg Problems

2010-08-18 Thread Ondrej Majerech
On 19-Aug-10 13:20, Rem Roberti wrote: I'm having trouble with xorg on a new 8.1 installation. I haven't installed a wm yet, but when I try to call up the generic x windows by typing startx they do indeed appear, but all three of the x windows are locked up. By that I mean that there is no

Re: sendmail, queue intervals and ETRN

2010-08-18 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Aug 18), David Allen said: I've had the following setup at home for a number of years: mailhub smarthost --- intarwebs Everything works as intended, of course, but I'd like to change the setup to accomodate the mailhub host being powered off at night. After