4 clause BSD license in a.out.h

2007-10-23 Thread bruce
While looking through some header files I found a.out.h in /usr/include. If this header is still valid (can FreeBSD still be configured to handle a.out binaries?), is the 3rd clause still valid, or should it be removed? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

2007-11-16 Thread bruce
On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:12:48PM +0100, Laszlo Nagy wrote: > Bruce Cran ?rta: > >Wojciech Puchar wrote: > >> Laszlo wrote: > >>>Hi All, > >>> > >>>Is there a way (sysctl?) to tell FreeBSD (6.2 RELEASE) how many > >>>memory can i

Re: Problems with zzz failing on FreeBSD 7/amd64

2007-11-23 Thread bruce
cpi_ReqSleepState: #if !defined(__i386__) /* This platform does not support acpi suspend/resume. */ return (ENOTSUPP); #endif I guess that's where the "Operation not supported" error is coming from, at least on amd64. -- Bruce Cran ___

Re: pkg_add problem

2011-04-19 Thread bruce
Your firewall may be the problem. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

This is a test

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce
This is a test! Bruce ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Memory / Swap Space Problem

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce
UsedAvail Capacity /dev/ad0s2b 10485760 1048576 0% Not sure.. Any help would be great. Thanks again, Bruce ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

OpenOffice and Java downloads are such a pain!

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce
erent file. This is driving me crazy. Bruce ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Cd burning and what app to use

2004-06-19 Thread Bruce
Hello all, Currently, I am running Gnome 2.6 and I am just wondering what cd burning software is really good from the ports collection? I want to burn cd's from iso files or copy music cd's to cd's. Or make data cd's. Thanks, Bruce __

Video Driver - Rage Pro Help

2004-08-02 Thread Bruce
I have an old IBM Aptiva with a Rage Pro video card. What video driver do I use for this card? I am using XF86. Thanks ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAI

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread bruce
Hi Have a look at Microtik's equipment very cheap for what it does and linux based, else there is also the Ubiquity Powerstation's, I have used both with success, Microtik boasts a 70Km wireless link with the right wireless card and antennae :D Regards, Bruce Grobler On Sat, 2

Re: Creating a 10km wireless bridge...pointers?

2009-03-21 Thread bruce
speaking comparatively, of course :D On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:10:42 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar wrote: >> >> Have a look at Microtik's equipment very cheap > > i don't think it's cheap :) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

SATA DVD/Blu Ray on FreeBSD with Intel ICH8 SATA interface

2010-05-23 Thread Bruce
What do I need to do to get this to work on FreeBSD 7.2? I'm always seeing errors like the ones below. Would it would better on FreeBSD8? I'd really like to be able to burn Blu Ray backups. cd0 at ata1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 3.300MB/s transfers cd0: Att

Re: using the date command

2007-09-30 Thread Bruce Cran
Brian A. Seklecki wrote: To set time: $ sudo /usr/sbin/ntpdate pool.ntp.org 29 Sep 23:48:31 ntpdate[9404]: adjust time server 66.250.45.2 offset 0.001289 sec ntpdate is deprecated, you should use "ntpd -q" instead if you want ntpd to set the time once then exit. From ntpdate(8): Note: The

Re: zero copy tcp send

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i found sendfile(2) doing this. but the question - does normal write(2) doing this when sending from user process memory, not file? does memory have to be aligned special way,like to page boundary? Yes - see zero_copy(9) -- Bruce

Re: hard drive testing...

2007-10-08 Thread Bruce Cran
ffline etc. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: rebranding a i386 binary to be a amd64 binary

2007-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
features that need to be implemented before an amd64 nVidia driver will work - see http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests for more info. nVidia do want to create an amd64 driver, but they need the kernel work to be done first. -- Bruce ___ f

Logitech G15

2007-10-14 Thread Bruce Alcock
eas? Even ways to go about writing a driver myself would be helpful. Thanks Bruce Alcock ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Logitech G15

2007-10-14 Thread Bruce Alcock
On 10/14/07, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 11:16:31AM +0200, Bruce Alcock wrote: > > Hi > > > > I own a Logitech G15 keyboard and although the standard keys work, none > of > > the multimedia or 'G' keys do

Re: Logitech G15

2007-10-14 Thread Bruce Alcock
On 10/14/07, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 08:11:30PM +0200, Bruce Alcock wrote: > > > > > It doesn't generate keysyms...hence the problem. Thanks, should've > mentioned > > that. Anyone got any ideas how to map

Logitech G15

2007-10-14 Thread Bruce Alcock
- Forwarded message -- From: Bruce Alcock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Oct 14, 2007 9:49 PM Subject: Re: Logitech G15 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org On 10/14/07, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 08:11:30PM +0200, Bruce Alcock w

XScreenSaver

2007-10-17 Thread Bruce Alcock
on in XScreenSaver for logging, so my question is what logging is he talking about and how do I use it? (he thought the mouse was moving ever so slightly every now and then, but this isn't the case since I unplugged my mouse last night and it still didn't suspend) Than

Re: www.freebsd.org won't load in IE 7.x in vista box.

2007-10-17 Thread Bruce Cran
ry running traceroute to check for routing problems to see where the problem is. -- Bruce Cran While his reply may not have been the most cordial that I have seen, it was nevertheless quite on point. I have used Vista and IE7 to connect to FBSD without incident. It therefore becomes evident that t

Re: Two questions about UNIX(r) certification.

2007-10-18 Thread Bruce Cran
ner of the Unix trademark (sco if I am not mistaken) I'd imagine that the big reason that FreeBSD hasn't done this yet is: It costs a lot of money. Apparently The Open Group are in charge of UNIX certification - see http://www.opengroup.org/certification/ for details. -- Bruce

Re: msttf?

2007-10-20 Thread Bruce Cran
User Roberth wrote: Is /usr/ports/chinese/msttf the right port of microsofts truetype fonts? It seems the msttf package was renamed some time ago - I believe the port you should install is /usr/ports/x11-fonts/webfonts -- Bruce ___ freebsd

Re: mounting a uif dvd image

2007-10-20 Thread Bruce Cran
mdX device, which you can then mount with: mount -t udf /dev/mdX /path/to/mount/dir -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: mounting a uif dvd image

2007-10-20 Thread Bruce Cran
Bruce Cran wrote: Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: I have a uif dvd image that I want to mount how do I do this (or convert to ISO). You can do this by using mdconfig and mount_udf (which is called by 'mount'). First, create a md device: mdconfig -a -t vnode -f /path/to/dvd_image

Re: Rebuilding world

2007-10-21 Thread Bruce Cran
you want to be running 8-CURRENT? It's very very new and will probably break in many ways in the coming months. You almost certainly want to be running 7-BETA1 (from the RELENG_7 branch) which is current at BETA1 stage - HEAD recently changed from 7-CURRENT to bec

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
e the correct size for variables. Your segv is because scanf was trying to put an int where it won't fit. You will get the same result if you go off the end of an array. -Derek It's well worth increasing the number of warnings enabled when writing C code, to catch any

Re: Mentor for C self study wanted

2007-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
le typically sizeof(short) == 2). I think short and int stay the same on both 32 and 64 bit platforms, while it's only long that gets bumped to 8 bytes. At least that seems to be what happens on FreeBSD amd64. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freeb

Re: XScreenSaver

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Alcock
t this, when xscreensaver comes on it does suspend and everything as meant to... Any ideas? I'm thinking it's possibly a bug with mplayer? Regards Bruce Alcock On 10/17/07, Kelvin Woods <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, October 17, 2007 08:48, Bruce Alcock wrote: >

Re: First panic in 7.0-BETA1 on i386

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Cran
rrent list was more relevant to RELENG_7 problems? It seems to be where most problems are being reported at least, and 8-CURRENT has only recently started diverging from 7. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.o

Re: Can't overwrite a particular swap partition

2007-10-24 Thread Bruce Cran
. Does setting kern.geom.debugflags=16 solve this? -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: CPU usage 100% but no process hogging CPU

2007-10-27 Thread Bruce Cran
x27;t display system (kernel) processes, which can take up lots of CPU time. To show these, run top with the "-S" flag. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Rebuilding world

2007-10-27 Thread Bruce Cran
terms of kernel code and compatibility with installed software. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: nvidia display driver on amd64

2007-10-30 Thread Bruce Cran
be done before an amd64 nVidia driver can work. Should that page be linked to from the wiki homepage? It's somewhat difficult to find at the moment. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/lis

Re: vim doesn't preserve the terminal content

2007-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
- see http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-July/075665.html for more information. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to &q

Re: Socket programming question

2007-11-14 Thread Bruce Cran
ogram opened the connection and the file descriptor number of the socket. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

2007-11-15 Thread Bruce Cran
/2004-April/000785.html The information there is quite old now though so I don't know if things are done differently in 6.x. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To u

Re: How to set maximum disk cache size?

2007-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
x has a higher limit on the number of dirty pages it can have in memory before it writes them out to disk? -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Strange kernel log message

2007-11-26 Thread Bruce Cran
The kernel option I've seen mentioned before to at least make this less common is: options PRINTF_BUFR_SIZE=128# Prevent printf output being interspersed. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailm

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-27 Thread Bruce Cran
x7fffe7f0) at /usr/src/usr.bin/make/make.c:793 #7 0x0040a081 in main (argc=0, argv=0x0) at /usr/src/usr.bin/make/main.c:1273 -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Upper limit on make -j ?

2007-11-28 Thread Bruce Cran
than I think it is. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: what is /dev/xpt0/

2007-12-13 Thread Bruce Cran
CAM transport layer driver - see xpt(4). -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

getting an "ls -l" from a dump type file system backup...

2003-11-22 Thread Bruce Campbell
to do this ? After each backup, I'd like to be able to put the details of all files backed up into a database, so I can see what versions of each file I've got available before restoring them. -- Bruce Campbell Engineering Computing CPH-2374B University of Waterloo (519)888-4567 ext 5

Re: wireless networking

2003-11-24 Thread Bruce Mackay
ch started to let me ping my router. I guess in your case you probably need 192.168.100.1. You may have already done this though. Another thing I found that was to ping names (yahoo.com) I had to set my /etc/resolv.conf with search nameserver I don't know if this will be of an

Re: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC

2008-10-03 Thread Bruce Cran
y what NVIDIA is requesting. Sorry - wrong list. Try: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2006-June/016995.html There's also http://wiki.freebsd.org/NvidiaFeatureRequests -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.

Re: processes hanging in _umtx_op

2008-10-05 Thread Diane Bruce
to know if > Mel> this bug persists with 7.1 being close to release. ... > This was my guess as well. I first noticed this hang while attempting > to build gnuradio around the end of August. During conversations with > the maintainer, Diane Bruce, about this hang she recognized

Re: processes hanging in _umtx_op

2008-10-05 Thread Diane Bruce
On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 08:19:01PM +0200, Mel wrote: > On Sunday 05 October 2008 18:07:30 Dale Hagglund wrote: > > > "Mel" == Mel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ... > > If upgrading ports is a possible solution, then you have the fine task of > finding out, which library in everything that's be

Re: kernel profiling: spinlock_exit consumes 36% CPU time.

2008-10-08 Thread Bruce Evans
On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, John Baldwin wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2008 07:44:00 am wrote: Hi, folks, I did kernel profiling when a single thread client sends UDP packets to a single thread server on the same machine. In the output kernel profile, the first few kernel functions that consumes

Binding SCTP sockets to the IPv6 lopback address

2008-10-15 Thread Bruce Cran
esn't work over IPv6 loopback? The code I'm running calls getaddrinfo with the hints to set AF_UNSPEC, SOCK_STREAM, AI_PASSIVE and then it calls bind with the protocol set to IPPROTO_SCTP. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.o

Need help with - FreeBSD 7 FTP Config for Drupal Development

2008-10-18 Thread Bruce Wade
". It is strange that with the same process modules work with no problem. Any suggestions? I am still fairly new to FreeBSD maybe it is something simple with permissions that I have overlooked. Regards, -- Bruce Wade Webmaster - http://www.warplydesigned.com - Game Develo

Re: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster

2008-10-21 Thread Bruce Cran
ml The slides are at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-slides.pdf and the paper is at http://2007.asiabsdcon.org/papers/P02-paper.pdf -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ques

Re: GCC help

2008-10-23 Thread Bruce Cran
he port will use the base-system version. Can't you set $CC to gcc44 or whatever to make the ports system use a different version of gcc? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: the age old 3D hardware question

2008-10-25 Thread Bruce Cran
requires local display I would guess the development and testing will be done on the same machine. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-01 Thread Bruce Cran
that being done for me, since I would much prefer to spend my time coding instead of hacking config files to import files, get stuff printed etc. Most people I know are moving from Debian to Ubuntu for the same reason - things just work. At the same time, it's nice to know that if

Re: Is KDE4 usable on FreeBSD?

2008-11-02 Thread Bruce Cran
ndliness of Windows with the power of *NIX. And lots of people have moved over to using it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: garmin forerunner 305

2008-11-03 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:24:02 +0100 Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:51:33 -0300 > "Joey Mingrone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Has anyone had any success collecting data from a Garmin Forerunner >

Re: garmin forerunner 305

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 08:28:05AM -0500, Bob McConnell wrote: > On Behalf Of Bruce Cran > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 20:24:02 +0100 > > Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008 11:51:33 -0300 > >> "Joey Mingrone" <

Re: garmin forerunner 305

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Cran
On Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:57:14 +0300 Boris Samorodov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I don't know if it'll work with the usb stack that's in shipping > > version of FreeBSD though, and even with the new stack

Re: /etc/src.conf WITHOUT_PROFILE=yes

2008-11-04 Thread Bruce Cran
lib and you'll see for example libc.so and libc_p.so - the _p version is the profiled version. The only problem I can see with disabling it using WITHOUT_PROFILE is that unless you remove the _p libraries they'll become stale over time. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: uhub0: device problem

2008-11-05 Thread Bruce Cran
it struggles with modern USB devices. Unfortunately I don't know of any solutions - or even if that's the problem. The first step would probably be to let people see what sort of hardware you have: could you post the output of the dmesg command please? -- Bruce Cran __

Re: Sluggish scheduling during a long disk copy

2008-11-09 Thread Bruce Cran
oing. It may be that FUSE is aggressively caching data and pushing your applications out of memory. This commonly happens on Linux and may be happening here too. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Official FreeBSD Forums

2008-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 22:56:28 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Having a larger user-base is definitely a good thing. That means > > attracting > > NO IT IS NOT! Well, it sounds like Minix may be gaining a new user soon

Re: re changing from vista

2008-11-17 Thread Bruce Cran
easily have switched to Debian or Gentoo where more manual configuration is required - just like in FreeBSD. One of the strengths of Linux is that if you find one of the new trendy features doesn't work, you can generally just build a new kernel - without including it. If it's user-space y

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-18 Thread Bruce Cran
Windows. I think that's where the likes of Gnome and KDE go wrong too, in trying to cater for two types of users at once and possibly failing both. I think beginners might actually be better off using one of the simpler window managers like Window Maker which have fewer items on the screen with simple rules to get things done. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-11-19 Thread Bruce Cran
that being able to restart is being advanced user. good > to know. > Actually, I think it is. See http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/11/21.html for the reasoning. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freeb

Re: large binary, why not strip ?

2008-11-27 Thread Bruce Cran
or not: > nm /bin/ls nm: /bin/ls: no symbols > nm /usr/local/bin/a2p 004030d0 T Myfatal 00510308 D No 0051a200 B Str 00510300 D Yes 00519e00 A _DYNAMIC [...] KLD .ko files are built with full debug data but the source information (filenames, line number

Re: FreeBSD and hardware??

2008-12-02 Thread Bruce Cran
have to realise that it's actually a GVFS mount, not a kernel-level mount. So only Gnome applications which know about GVFS are able to see the files. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Swapping to MMC (Was: To swap or not to swap)

2008-12-02 Thread Bruce Cran
it was more a worry about someone pulling the MMC card out of the slot; in that case I think FreeBSD would panic rather quickly! Another thing to consider is that the bus the MMC sits on is probably somewhat slower than the bus the SSD is on, so any swapping is going to slow the system down even more than usual. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: To swap or not to swap

2008-12-04 Thread Bruce Cran
he machine's run out of memory; however the current behaviour seems good to me. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: / almost out of space just after installation

2009-10-10 Thread Bruce Cran
ot;swap = 2 x the maximum > of RAM you could put into the box", but is this approach still > valid today? Having just built a desktop PC which can fit 24GB RAM (but has 6GB installed currently), I don't think having 48GB swap really makes any sense.

Re: win 7 dual boot

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Cran
ister on the site and download the beta of 2.0 from the forums - the 1.x version won't work. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: I'm sure you've heard this before...

2009-10-28 Thread Bruce Cran
my ATAidle utility from sysutils/ataidle. In FreeBSD 7 you can also use the "spindown" command that's been added to atacontrol(8). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free

Re: Effing HAL

2009-10-30 Thread Bruce Cran
/local/etc/hal/fdi/policy/ that tells it what layout to use. It's rather frustrating that information is scattered in forums - I couldn't see any official-looking articles on configuring it. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: amd64

2009-11-09 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 04:27:54 -0800 (PST) Clayton Wilhelm da Rosa wrote: > Hi, > > i made the download of FreeBSD amd64 and i wanna know if the amd64 is > the same as x86_x64. Yes, it's the same. amd64, x86_64 and x64 are all the same architecture

Re: Bad Blocks... Should I RMA?

2009-11-16 Thread Bruce Cran
s probably time to think about RMA'ing the drive - if you trust that the 'raw' column is reporting what you think it is (you should really only base your decision on the value, worst and threshold columns). -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-quest

nanobsd (Freebsd 7.2) and GENERIC.hints

2009-11-22 Thread Bruce Griffiths
Is there any way of forcing a nanobsd build to use a file other than GENERIC.hints to create the /boot/device.hints? Using a target specific hints file is much simple and less error prone than other methods. Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: What does this message mean?

2009-11-29 Thread Bruce Cran
serious problem? It seems to be a harmless warning message - I've seen it many times when starting the Bluetooth stack. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To uns

Re: Phoronix Benchmarks: Waht's wrong with FreeBSD 8.0?

2009-11-30 Thread Bruce Cran
program which runs sync() every 5 > seconds, or even every 1 second. Your performance will be completely > trashed, but that's the way things break." - Theodore Ts'o wrote on > 2009-03-06 This is actually the way UFS/FFS works too

Re: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s)

2009-12-09 Thread Bruce Cran
me last year: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/svn-src-head/2008-December/002175.html -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Bruce Cran
found. > Name service error for > name=ethic.thought.org type=A: Host not found It looks like the server is EHLO'ing as ethic.thought.org but is actually plato.thought.org. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailin

Re: is this getting out?

2009-12-17 Thread Bruce Cran
is still propogating? $ host aristotle.thought.org aristotle.thought.org has address 209.180.213.210 -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail

Re: question about building a custom kernel

2009-12-19 Thread Bruce Cran
drivers I knew were used and added pf support, but it does show that substantial savings are still possible. Another reason for building a custom kernel is to add functionality that isn't available through modules, such as support for DTrace. -- Bruce Cran _

Re: cvs-ports => svn-ports

2009-12-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:45:51 +0100 Dominic Fandrey wrote: > Is there an svn equivalent to the cvs-ports mailing list? ports are still stored in a cvs repository, unlike src. -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list h

Re: FreeBSD beastie plush toy?

2009-12-21 Thread Bruce Cran
On Mon, 21 Dec 2009 13:41:05 -0500 Aleksandr Miroslav wrote: > Where can I purchase a FreeBSD beastie plush toy? Something like http://www.freebsdmall.com/cgi-bin/fm/bsdbeanie?id=NkWSe8g8&mv_pc=144 ? -- Bruce Cran ___ freebsd-questions@free

Re: Tuning for very little RAM

2010-01-06 Thread Bruce Cran
that's running 8-STABLE my kernel is just 4.1MB. You should also be able to build Xorg so it'll use less memory - for example by not requiring hald but getting it to read the configuration from xorg.conf instead. You can also tell FreeBSD to agressively

Re: Web Site Mistype

2008-03-20 Thread Bruce Cran
Alexis Megas wrote: Hello, The page http://www.freebsd.org/java/dists/16.html has a date mistype (November 15, 2008). Thanks! freebsd-www@ is the mailing list which deals with errors on the FreeBSD web pages - I've cc'd them.

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
, which is free. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
Jim Stapleton wrote: Really? And runs on FreeBSD (or does it use Linux Compat?) I don't think any modern versions of VMWare run on FreeBSD - the version in ports is 3.x. -- Bruce On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 8:27 AM, Bruce Cran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jim Stapleton wrote: >

Re: virtual machine software

2008-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
ses aio at least for ide dma, so if you get `Invalid system call' crashes that is because aio is not (kld)loaded. -- Bruce On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 9:03 AM, Roland Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:37:50PM -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > I need to get a VM w

Re: ifconfig gif0 and rc.conf [was: Re: IP packet with options]

2008-03-22 Thread Bruce Cran
use: ipv6_ifconfig_gif0="src-addr dst_addr" -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: Powerpc port

2008-03-24 Thread Bruce Cran
eave the CD in the drive and type: > boot cd:,\boot\loader hd:3 There are more instructions about booting Macs at http://people.freebsd.org/~grehan/iso_install.txt -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mai

Re: disable periodic scripts

2008-03-30 Thread Bruce Cran
ing. Am I just deleting all the /etc/periodic/* stuff or is there a switch like: turn_off_ancient_system_administration="YES" ? Tnx. If you really want to disable cron, put cron_enable="NO" in /etc/rc.conf -- Bruce ___ freebsd

Re: Why are some linux users saying that FreeBSD is dying

2008-04-08 Thread Bruce Cran
;better". I'm trying to find out what they are looking at in netcraft that can possibly prove their point. It's a troll. See http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=1391352 for details. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org maili

Re: RAM & Swap & Speed

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Cran
#x27;t being used by the programs/kernel and which isn't accounted for in the Free value can be used as cache. So for example my PC is currently showing 5668KB Cache and 110MB Buf but also there's also 638MB showing as 'Inact'. The va

Re: determining what's in the base system

2008-04-21 Thread Bruce Cran
no mention of it in /COPYRIGHT at all. Please correct me if I'm mistaken somehow. There's also the ath_hal driver which has its own fairly restrictive license in /sys/contrib/dev/ath/COPYRIGHT . -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions

Re: Firewalls

2008-04-28 Thread Bruce Cran
to be easiest to use and has lots of features like altq and os fingerprinting but is quite a bit slower than ipfw. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, sen

Re: does make buildworld/buildkernel require you to root

2008-05-07 Thread Bruce Cran
appropriately. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: time drift

2008-05-15 Thread Bruce Cran
half hour, ntpd dies away running on his machine. Setting kern.timecounter.hardware to TSC had been recommended as a solution. There's also a FreeBSD PR open about this problem: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=i386/123462 -- Bruce _

Re: Status of KDE4

2008-05-19 Thread Bruce Cran
plan is to wait until KDE 4.1 is released before putting it into ports. -- Bruce ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

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