Re: Recording from sound card

2011-02-11 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 22:17:57 -0500, Robert Ames roberta...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm having problems trying to record from a sound card under 8.1-RELEASE. The last time I tried this was many releases ago, possibly 4.x-RELEASE. Back then I would do something like cat /dev/dsp file but now

RE: switching from gnu make to bsd make

2011-02-11 Thread Vikash Badal
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Bonomi Sent: 11 February 2011 01:59 AM To: Vikash Badal Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: switching from gnu make to bsd make Try typing

FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-11 Thread Paul Macdonald
Hi, Is anyone using SSD drives on freeBSD server systems? I'm attracted by the performance increases i've seen on both my desktops and laptops (quite amazing and easy upgrade if you've not tried).. I see from here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIM#Operating_system_and_SSD_support that

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Nothing to do oh, freebsd-questions stay in bat! 2011/02/11 09:40:37 + Paul Macdonald p...@ifdnrg.com = To FreeBSD Mailing List : PM I'd be interested to here peoples opinions on best uses for SSD, general PM purpose applications such as databases , webservers etc will benefit PM

Re: how to add a few hundred ip on one interface?

2011-02-11 Thread Vladislav V. Prodan
11.02.2011 8:07, Matthew Seaman пишет: ipv4_addrs_re0=xxx.xxx.yyy.134-147/23 See rc.conf(5) for details. And this construction work? ipv4_addrs_ed0=192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-2/28 192.0.2.4-5/28 -- Vladislav V. Prodan VVP24-UANIC +38[067]4584408 +38[099]4060508 vla...@jabber.ru

Re: how to add a few hundred ip on one interface?

2011-02-11 Thread Guillermo Fernando Cotone
On 02/11/2011 09:55 AM, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote: And this construction work? ipv4_addrs_ed0=192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-2/28 192.0.2.4-5/28 It would work only if all the IPs were on the same subnet. If you want to use different subnets you need to implement vlans on that interface

Re: how to add a few hundred ip on one interface?

2011-02-11 Thread Vladislav V. Prodan
11.02.2011 15:25, Guillermo Fernando Cotone wrote: On 02/11/2011 09:55 AM, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote: And this construction work? ipv4_addrs_ed0=192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-2/28 192.0.2.4-5/28 It would work only if all the IPs were on the same subnet. If you want to use different

Re: how to add a few hundred ip on one interface?

2011-02-11 Thread Nathan Vidican
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Guillermo Fernando Cotone guillermo.cot...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/11/2011 09:55 AM, Vladislav V. Prodan wrote: And this construction work? ipv4_addrs_ed0=192.0.2.129/27 192.0.2.1-2/28 192.0.2.4-5/28 It would work only if all the IPs were on the

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 08:56:42 +0100 Damien Fleuriot m...@my.gd wrote: The list strips non-text attachments so there isn't much to see at the moment though... It wasn't supposed to be attached - try http://druidbsd.sourceforge.net/download/host-setup.txt :) -- Bruce Cran

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 349, Issue 8, Message: 15 On Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:53:53 -0800 Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: Hi All, I'd like to announce the release of a new script. A script that I've developed for our field engineers that I'd like to share with the rest of the

FreeBSD's tftp and tftpd-hpa

2011-02-11 Thread Martin Cracauer
FreeBSD's current tftp client doesn't work with tftpd-hpa. FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT (XEN) #0: Fri Jan 21 15:54:41 EST 2011 ~(fbpv)1% tftp 192.168.1.1 tftp get pxeboot Got ERROR packet: Unsupported option(s) requested Error code 2048: Unsupported option(s) requested tftp Anybody got a solution for

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Devin Teske
On Fri, 2011-02-11 at 08:56 +0100, Damien Fleuriot wrote: Hi Devin, Thanks for sharing your work. The list strips non-text attachments so there isn't much to see at the moment though... Thanks Damien. Here's a link to the pic I posted online in-tandem with the post to the list(s).

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Damien Fleuriot
Hi Devin, Thanks for sharing your work. The list strips non-text attachments so there isn't much to see at the moment though... --- Fleuriot Damien On 11 Feb 2011, at 04:53, Devin Teske dte...@vicor.com wrote: Hi All, I'd like to announce the release of a new script. A script that I've

system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin and I have set both ntpd_enable=YES and ntpd_sync_on_start=YES. My ntp.conf consists of server ntp1.ptb.de prefer server ntp2.ptb.de restrict default ignore restrict 127.0.0.1

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe wrote: My ntp.conf consists of server ntp1.ptb.de prefer server ntp2.ptb.de restrict default ignore restrict 127.0.0.1 Surely, I must be missing something. Does anybody have an idea? What does ntpq -p -c rv indicate? It wouldn't

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 09:40:37AM +, Paul Macdonald wrote: I'd be interested to here peoples opinions on best uses for SSD, general purpose applications such as databases , webservers etc will benefit obviously, but i'm also curious as to disk intensive applications such as

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin and I have set both ntpd_enable=YES and ntpd_sync_on_start=YES. ntpd has a sanity check -- if the

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread Christopher J. Ruwe
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:13:43 -0800 David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin and I have set both

Re: Scanner recommendation

2011-02-11 Thread Peter Vereshagin
Nothing to do oh, freebsd-questions stay in bat! 2011/02/03 18:02:09 -0800 Rem P Roberti remeg...@comcast.net = To FreeBSD : RPR Now that I understand how to get a scanner working, if there are any RPR photographers out there who are using scanners with FreeBSD for RPR negatives or slides I

Re: system clock running 2h early although ntpd enabled

2011-02-11 Thread RW
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011 12:13:43 -0800 David Brodbeck g...@gull.us wrote: On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 1:16 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe c...@cruwe.de wrote: Since some weeks my local clock runs two hours early. My /etc/localtime is a copy of /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Berlin and I have set both

Re: VESA and SDL in tty terminal

2011-02-11 Thread Anonymous
David Demelier demelier.da...@gmail.com writes: On 10/02/2011 15:37, Anonymous wrote: David Demelierdemelier.da...@gmail.com writes: Hello, The SDL's pkg-message says we can use video driver in tty terminal. To do this you have to load the vesa kernel module or enable it in your

Re: VESA and SDL in tty terminal

2011-02-11 Thread David Demelier
On 10/02/2011 15:37, Anonymous wrote: David Demelierdemelier.da...@gmail.com writes: Hello, The SDL's pkg-message says we can use video driver in tty terminal. To do this you have to load the vesa kernel module or enable it in your kernel, and set environment variable

deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i'm trying to decipher the following top(1) output: otaku% top -PSHb -d2 last pid: 14206; load averages: 0.02, 0.04, 0.00 up 1+02:08:5801:13:21 256 processes: 3 running, 238 sleeping, 15 waiting Mem: 1356M Active, 141M Inact, 342M Wired, 79M Cache, 212M Buf, 44M Free Swap:

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Alexander Best wrote: a) my system is 100% idle, since no processes except the idle process takes up up CPU time or b) that a or some processes take up 2% CPU time which aren't being shown or c) that each of my cpu core is only 86.6/89.4% idle? It means (c).

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Feb 11 11, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:21 PM, Alexander Best wrote: a) my system is 100% idle, since no processes except the idle process takes up up CPU time or b) that a or some processes take up 2% CPU time which aren't being shown or c) that each of my cpu

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Alexander Best wrote: It means (c). Kernel activity, short-lived transient processes, and imperfections in sampling data are the other ~13 / 10 % thanks. it seems in some cases these imperfections have quite an impact: last pid: 48135; load averages:

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Alexander Best
On Fri Feb 11 11, Chuck Swiger wrote: On Feb 11, 2011, at 4:41 PM, Alexander Best wrote: It means (c). Kernel activity, short-lived transient processes, and imperfections in sampling data are the other ~13 / 10 % thanks. it seems in some cases these imperfections have quite an

Re: deciphering top(1) output

2011-02-11 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Feb 11, 2011, at 5:08 PM, Alexander Best wrote: also i noticed that when a processes CPU activity goes up to let's say 10% and then down again to 0% this doesn't mean that the idle process will jump to 200% instantly, but it takes ~ 10 seconds for it to reclaim the CPU activity that was

Re: FreeBSD and SSD drives

2011-02-11 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Ignoring the TRIM issue for a moment . . . You're probably best off saving SSD storage for cases where you have lots of reads and little to no write activity, unless you enjoy buying new SSDs a lot. Actually, let's not

Re: Portupgrade and Updating the portsdb

2011-02-11 Thread ill...@gmail.com
On 10 February 2011 08:33, c0re nr1c...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! I've got set of servers that uses NFS mounted /usr/ports. When I use portupgrade samba on 1st server it says [/usr/ports/INDEX-7.db: unexpected file type or format -- Invalid argument] [Updating the portsdb format:bdb_btree

Re: [RELEASE] host-setup(1): a dialog(1)-based utility for configuring FreeBSD

2011-02-11 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 11 Feb 2011, Eitan Adler wrote: Nice Script! I intend to steal parts of it for my own use. It's great when you can plunder without robbing anyone :) P.S. Maybe I ought to expand it to IPv6 considering that the IPv4 address space has [reportedly] finally ran out (is that