Modern FreeBSD Installer?

2009-04-22 Thread Fritz
Hi, As a big fan (and paying subscriber) of FreeBSD it pains me to ask this question: When are you going to build a modern installer for FreeBSD? I looked at the list of projects and didn't see it there ... did I miss something? Thanks Fritz Kolberg Phoenix, AZ

cyclic symbolic link in /usr/local/share/nls/C

2003-10-08 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
Hello, why is, regardless of freebsd version in /usr/local/share/nls/C the following symbolic link to itself C - C , why not .keep_me or something? It somtimes lets find operations fail (too much redirections). After deletion it reappears mysteriously. -- Mit freundlichen Grüßen Fritz

Any working combination of jdk and tomcat with stable

2003-01-23 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
Tomcat4.0.6 and tomcat4.1.18 do not work here with 4.7-STABLE, 4.1.12 did some month ago (stand alone server). I am interested to hear of working combination. I use native jdk-1.3.1 (appletviewer works ...) -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084

toshiba satellite 5100 for freebsd

2002-12-10 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
Hello, any experience with this notebook under freebsd? It came preinstalled with windows xp and a free 2. primary partition. Will freebsd boot, xfree work? greetings -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax

sysinstall on current broken with larger drives

2003-02-12 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
says 1024/255/63 (wrong, only 8 GByte). Sysinstall suggests 7476/255/63 (better, 60 GByte). The partition table was created with diskpart from windows xp, btw. Any ideas? -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] FernUniversitaet Hagen, LG ES, 58084 Hagen (Germany) tel:+49 2331/987-1166 fax

Solved: Any working combination of jdk and tomcat with stable

2003-02-14 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
On Thursday 23 January 2003 16:08, Ernst de Haan wrote: On Thursday 23 January 2003 15:38, Fritz Heinrichmeyer wrote: Tomcat4.0.6 and tomcat4.1.18 do not work here with 4.7-STABLE, 4.1.12 did some month ago (stand alone server). I am interested to hear of working combination. I use native

why does strftime not respect my locale settings?

2006-02-24 Thread Fritz Heinrichmeyer
, localtime(timev)); delivers 24 Friday February setlocale(LC_TIME, de_DE.ISO8859-15); strftime(buffer, 1000, %d %A %B, localtime(timev)); delivers 24 Freitag Februar how can i change strftime without setting locale explicitly? -- Fritz Heinrichmeyer FernUniversitaet, LG ES, 58084 Hagen

Way to prune/limit the ZFS zpool history?

2009-01-20 Thread Geoff Fritz
Hello. I've been experimenting with a series scripts that takes ZFS snapshots every minute, eventually destroying the oldest so that only so many remain available for a given window of time. This may seem a trivial concern with hard drive sizes being what they are these days, but after running a

Re: Way to prune/limit the ZFS zpool history?

2009-01-20 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:17:47PM -0600, Dan Nelson wrote: In the last episode (Jan 20), Geoff Fritz said: I've been experimenting with a series scripts that takes ZFS snapshots every minute, eventually destroying the oldest so that only so many remain available for a given window of time

Re: Backup program on FreeBSD for DLT drive

2009-01-22 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 08:30:56PM +0100, bsd wrote: Hello, I am using a FreeBSD server 7.0 as a Samba server and wanted to backup this server using Quantum DLT tape. I would need a simple tool that could be configured rapidl at that's stable enough to provide high security for the

Re: KDE: What a monster!

2009-01-23 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 07:15:47PM -0500, Eduardo Cerejo wrote: I just finished installing kde4, and it can barely run on my old p4 machine! Where has kde gone? Is the developing team trying to beat VISTA? Pitiful at best! Try: cd /usr/ports/x11-wm/evilwm make install clean Can't beat

Dual-head issues w/ the latest Xorg updates

2009-01-26 Thread Geoff Fritz
Seems I've been bitten by the latest Xorg updates that trickled into ports late last week. Firstly, I stumbled with the AllowEmptyInput thing, as described in /usr/ports/UPDATING (20090123 entry). Fine, that was easy enough. After that, I found that the sis driver was broken, or at least it

Re: Load balancing multiple virtual hosts on 1 IP

2009-01-31 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 09:23:36AM -0400, Marc G. Fournier wrote: Simple: is it possible? I have two VMs that contain the same content, on two different IPs .. I want to setup a third VM with something like haproxy on it that will take the URL (http://domain1) and pull the content from

Scheduling behavior when using idprio

2009-02-03 Thread Geoff Fritz
I recently noticed something odd. Whenever I have a cpu-bound process (say, piping a lot of data through gzip -9c) that's been given an idle priority using idprio 31 -PID, I notice that my system's overall interactive responsiveness feels peppier. Apps seems to respond faster, screens redraw

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.

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: Root shell

2009-03-01 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 04:16:50PM +, Frank Shute wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 03:50:29PM +0100, Sniper wrote: Hi! I heard that changing root shell to bash is not good idea, also programing in any C shell not applicable. So which shell is the most appropriate for root user ?

Re: Cooking LLVM in FreeBSD 8

2009-03-17 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 01:49:24PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: On Ivoras'FreeBSD page, ``What's cooking for FreeBSD 8'' http://ivoras.sharanet.org/freebsd/freebsd8.html LLVM site shows it's something like precompiler+runtime compiling. will it be used that way, or as usual compiler?

Re: Cooking LLVM in FreeBSD 8

2009-03-17 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:19:52PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I think the idea is to get away from gcc with its evil GPL3 license as the very good move. i wasn't aware that usable GCC replacement exist, as it was probably the only reason to keep communist licenced programs with

Re: Cooking LLVM in FreeBSD 8

2009-03-17 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 03:27:37PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: It does look promising, though. I hope it'll eventually surpass gcc in actually - it's matter of measurement. for example - gcc generated code is very fast, but often in expense of code size. Even -Os compiled programs

Re: geli on exisitng laptop

2009-04-08 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Wed, Apr 08, 2009 at 07:06:27AM -0700, new_guy wrote: Hi guys, I'd like to use geli to whole disk encrypt a FreeBSD 7.1 laptop I already have setup. The laptop is up and working fine and I don't want to screw it up. It have the default partition layout. I've already used geli to encrypt

Re: low-level format before install?

2009-04-08 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 05:41:27PM -0400, John Almberg wrote: Thanks for all the tips. At least I have something to start with. The guys in the data center reinstalled FreeBSD (the filesystem was totally corrupted again), and then ran what they called SMART test, which might be smartctl,

Re: sound configuration for pidgin

2009-04-10 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 08:51:35PM +0700, kyanh wrote: Hello all, I'd like to hear some notification from Pidgin. When configuring Pidgin, I use mplayer %s to make Pidgin play stuff. But it's hard to hear the sound as pidgin's volume is small (while the system mixer is almost

Re: please recommend a disk-exercising program?

2009-06-07 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 10:43:40AM +0100, John . wrote: Hello list, Can anyone please recommend to me a program that will stress-test a disk? If it matters, two are connected by firewire, another via usb. Filesystem is ufs. I think I have a disk that might be about to fail, but it only

Re: please recommend a disk-exercising program?

2009-06-07 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 07:49:41PM +0200, Wojciech Puchar wrote: I've seen several mentions of dd in this thread, and I'll say that I've seen several recommendations elsewhere to use a simple: dd if=/dev/device of=/dev/device forgot bs=1m or at least 64kB, unless you like to wait

Re: Need a filesystem with unlimited inodes

2009-06-11 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 10:17:02PM -0700, Michael David Crawford wrote: Frank Bonnet wrote: It seems ZFS would match his needs , why don't use it ? Does ZFS really work on FreeBSD? It seems like every day someone is posting about ZFS either getting corrupted or panicking their kernel. It

Re: [OT] but concerns all of us

2011-11-17 Thread Fritz Wuehler
Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote: Only those who break laws have a reason to fear them. That is a catastrophically incorrect view. Ask an attorney how much is spent by corporations and private citizens defending themselves against both wrongful lawsuits and wrongful prosecution. It's enough

Re: problem in changing serial console speed!

2011-11-27 Thread Fritz Wuehler
1- change /boot.config: add -S*speed *2- change /boot/loader.conf: add following lines boot_multicons=YES boot_serial=YES comconsole_speed=115200 console=comconsole,vidconsole 3- change /etc/ttys as follows: ttyu0/usr/libexec/getty std.115200vt100on secure none of the

Re: How to destroy a zombie zpool

2012-01-16 Thread Fritz Wuehler
I've got a weird problem... I was working on installing 9.0 w/zfs on my laptop, messed up, rebooted, *formatted the drives* and restarted. Got much further the next time, however... There is a zombie copy of the old zpool sitting around interfering with things. 'zpool import' lists

Re: Which Common Lisp port for FreeBSD/sparc64?

2012-01-17 Thread Fritz Wuehler
is anyone running a Common Lisp port on FreeBSD/sparc64? I can't remember but I believe I had sbcl on sparc64, just don't remember what OS... I'm asking because none of our Common Lisp ports lang/clisp, lang/ccl, lang/cmucl, lang/sbcl compile on sparc64. I believe sbcl has binaries for

Re: zpool detach pool device

2012-01-24 Thread Fritz Wuehler
All DBAN does is write {whatever-source-you-choose} to the drive basically with dd (it's actually a separate wrapper program but it behaves identically to dd). Just use dd and avoid the hassle of downloading and burning a cd that does dd. dban is nice if you have to do a garage full of

Re: T2000 Sparc FreeBSD8.2 installation failed

2012-01-26 Thread Fritz Wuehler
You wrote: On 01/26/2012 02:05 PM, Anonymous wrote: NetBSD Not recommended, sorry to say Why? Net has support for less sparc64 platforms than OpenBSD or FreeBSD and NetBSD reliability has gone downhill. I am sad to say it but I think Net's best days are behind us. I hope I have to eat

Re: File manager for Xfce

2012-02-15 Thread Fritz Wuehler
A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not really my way of doing it. I prefer Fluxbox and have since I found it. Xfce is rather heavy these days, not surprised you're considering it as a replacement to KDE. But Xfce breaks rather badly at times, I no longer trust it.

Re: Mountable encrypted file? What to use?

2009-10-12 Thread Geoff Fritz
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 06:33:40AM -0700, Greg Morell wrote: I like to keep all of my sensitive stuff in a few encrypted mountable files. Something where I can copy the file to a USB key for backup, but not worry if I lose the USB key since it's just an encrypted file. But when on a