FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i want to go to FreeBSD instead of NetBSD on my i386 machines because of all new features :( introduced in NetBSD after 1.5 mostly crashing softdeps, strange memory/unified disk cache management (large writing to file almost freezes everything) etc. etc. i installed FreeBSD once to do quick

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Wojciech Puchar wrote: i installed FreeBSD once to do quick performance tests, and at least in disk I/O and fair scheduling it's MUCH better (tested 4.10 and 5.1). It's nice to be welcomed by higher performance when you switch OSes. :-) while high performance is always cool, stable performance

thank you

2004-07-15 Thread Wojciech Puchar
for excellent user support. now i have enough answers and can start working tomorrow :) ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 100Mbit/s LAN slow, TX only ~3MB/s (esp. file transfer) -- why?

2004-07-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thank you all who took time to reply! The problem really seems to be one of the (or maybe even both, even the LinkSys!) NICs in the FreeBSD machines. No wonder, the RealTek card is a cheap piece of crap (around EUR 6), I am going to replace it with something more reliable. Any recommendations? Is

Re: FreeBSD beginner (NetBSD advanced)

2004-07-16 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ipfw yesterday. i think i will not miss :) NikV On Friday 16 July 2004 00:50, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Wojciech Puchar wrote: i installed FreeBSD once to do quick performance tests, and at least in disk I/O and fair scheduling it's MUCH better (tested 4.10 and 5.1). It's nice to be welcomed by higher

FreeBSD beginner part2 questions

2004-07-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
after receiving lots of support from freebsd-question i completely (almost) moved home machine/server to freebsd. and have question: 1) can userland ppp negotiate deflate with NetBSD pppd on other side? my ppp.conf looks like that: stalka: set log Phase Chat tun set device /dev/cuaa2

sio errors

2004-07-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
are messages like that normal in logs? Jul 17 19:15:31 chylonia kernel: sio2: 681 more interrupt-level buffer overflows (total 101746) with NetBSD i've got similar too but very very rare, now i'm getting every 10-20 seconds. anyway - ftp speeds doesn't look much slower. chip is 16550A on ISA

Re: cd clone img cd image

2004-07-17 Thread Wojciech Puchar
hi all dose anyone know of a way to burn an img image that was created in windows at home i don't have any windows machines anymore isn't windows-created images just normal images+few extra info files? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

NetBSD-FreeBSD move: samba problem

2004-07-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i had NetBSD with samba: Information for samba-2.2.8anb5: Comment: SMB/CIFS protocol server suite for UNIX and now have FreeBSD with samba: samba-2.2.8aA free SMB and CIFS client and server for UNIX same versions of samba. i moved smb.conf to /usr/local/etc and started samba under

Re: upgrading form 4.2 to 5.x

2004-07-18 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Brent Bailey writes: The customer is running a file server samba also running apache running FBSD 4.2, he wants to upgrade using cvsup the make buildworld procedure to upgrade to 5.x. why they want an upgrade as 4.2 works fine? smells like windows.

Re: Our package system: Fundamentally Flawed - A Linux User.

2004-07-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
a different library name) like it should, pkg_add only gives a warning and an assumption that the install went well. Now, the user goes to run the package and gets a big fat error: libintl.so.X not found. package 0.13 should be compatible with 0.12 or should has name 1.* anyway - in 99.99%

/etc/make.conf info

2004-07-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
where can i find info about possible options in make.conf for ports builder ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Our package system: Fundamentally Flawed - A Linux User.

2004-07-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well, FWIU, building from source is also the preferred method, as it creates a much better system overall, rather than just installing binaries which have been built on someone else's system. This allows every install to be specifically built for the system on which it's installed. Not only

Re: NetBSD-FreeBSD move: samba problem

2004-07-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
thank you for all help. the problem was that windoze got configured by DHCP with netmask 255.255.255.224 (right), while i configured FreeBSD with netmask 255.255.255.0 (wrong). so broadcasts didn't work. today morning i changed it and samba started to work. thank you.

Re: Our package system: Fundamentally Flawed - A Linux User.

2004-07-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
though some of the rest of the stuff doesn't matter to me that much. I can also use KMail in any other window manager, but it does tend to be a resource exactly. KDE programs can be used without whole KDE. Well, I've broken a couple of things in learning FreeBSD but managed to fix them.

Re: /etc/make.conf info

2004-07-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
builder Look at the ports(7) man page and the default make.conf (which is /etc/defaults/make.conf under 4.x, and /usr/share/examples/etc/make.conf in 5.x, or you can look at it in CVS via http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/share/examples/etc/make.conf ) that's what i needed. thank

sio interrupt level overflows

2004-07-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what's the source of this so very often messages? Jul 19 22:44:17 chylonia kernel: sio2: 9 more interrupt-level buffer overflows (total 279433) ^^ after about 1 day uptime and 200MB traffic through sio at 230400bps (set to 28800 for FreeBSD while it's ISA card with 8x

Re: Windows X

2004-07-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
following sources will probably yield the richest results: o the freebsd handbook (perhaps the best OS handbook out there): - http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/index.html - you also have a copy locally installed at /usr/share/doc/handbook. o the

Re: Windows X

2004-07-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
space, it does slow down the system, and more software means potentially more security vulnerabilities. just having X running doesn't seem to slow down system. only using slow and memory hungry software may do it. but i don't see anything wrong in having X on server if it's used as workstation

Re: how to update freebsd? newbie

2004-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i am sorry if this is a stupid question i ask but i am willing to see if someone helps me to understand the freebsd update process, i just came from redhat so forgive me why do you need update while you are newbie. first learn what you have. Unix is not windows (and in last years - not Redhat)

Re: How to send attached files on sendmail with mail tool?

2004-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
cat file | uuencode tgt_filname | mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] uuencode tgt_filname | mail -s subject [EMAIL PROTECTED] instead of cat. less one unneeded piping. subject can be derived from shell script variables if necessary. Do you have to do a uudecode on the receiving end to

Re: Compilation

2004-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm sorry, but I just can't do anything in this operating i'm sorry too. system. I mean, finally I've found a library that makes it simple to simply plot a pixel in a window without spending hours looking for a GTK tutorial that will tell so why wasting your time and FreeBSD user's time?

Removing FreeBSD

2004-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
How do remove freebsd from my machine? I want to format the drive to install windows xp. 1) don't post without subject 2) boot any usix from floppy or CD, get to shell and use dd to wipe out beginning of disk with FreeBSD dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=64k count=1 with linux replace ad0

Re: Windows X

2004-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and start browsing. :) I just installed the newest XFce today, and wow, it's nice. Very fast. I don't compared to KDE - for sure fast. want to give up KMail, but like a lot of other KDE apps, it runs other KDE no problem to run KMail without KDE except it will take lot of CPU too.

Re: Removing FreeBSD

2004-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
with FreeBSD dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=64k count=1 with linux replace ad0 with hda, with NetBSD use rwd0d. 3) install windoze or any OS as with empty drive. PS. i assumed your hard drive is on first IDE channel master. or just start the xp install. The installer

cam/passthrough device question

2004-07-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i'm now running generic 5.2.1 kernel (to narrow list of possible sources). i have: atapci0: Intel PIIX4 UDMA33 controller port 0xf000-0xf00f at device 7.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata0: [MPSAFE] ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 ata1: [MPSAFE] and GEOM: create disk ad0

Re: Vinum.

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
drive e device /dev/da5s1e drive f device /dev/da6s1e volume raid10 plex org striped 512k sd length 0 drive a sd length 0 drive b sd length 0 drive c plex org striped 512k sd length 0 drive d sd length 0 drive e sd length 0 drive f I

Re: best virtual server solution?

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I've been struggling to find the best virtual server solution based on a FreeBSD 5.2.1 system. I was hoping some members of the list could help me take this decision. I have questions/thoughts regarding vmware/bsd jails: - Vmware - Does it run 5.2.1 nicely ? i think yes. it emulates

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This email is going to any Linux house whom has pitched themselves via their websites and reviews, from my research as being possible 1) FreeBSD is (fortunately) not Linux. it's different things 2) FreeBSD doesn't try to be (fortunately) windows alternative in strict sense. I mean giving same

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
OpenOffice.org can do the job there, but a file created with OOo will be rather misshapen when opened with Excel and vica versa. So it's not advicable. OpenOffice reads excel and word documents - so vice versa is not true. OpenOffice can export excel documents too

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Your detailed reply appreciated I've got to tell you, you're looking for a lot of detailed advice for free. I know you _say_ you did a lot of research, but the level of knowledge you display in your questions does not demonstrate that you did _any_ research. If research is defined by

Re: VPN with multiple offices

2004-07-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
companies who will need temporary access to the network while working on larger projects. In addition to this we would like to give remote access for our road warriors from anonymous networks. For the our offices I believe a tunnel with esp that seems to be the is documented in the handbook

Re: FreeBSD v4.10 - Newbie Needs Help - KDE Really Slow !!

2004-07-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I just installed FreeBSD v4.10. All installed OK I choose KDE as the Desktop Problem: KDE v3 is reallly SLOW!! - Takes 2 minutes to start/load !! - Just opening a simple Console takes almost a minute !! - Resolution looks really grainy - as if its 256 colors - Don't know how to change

Re: Are you truly a M$ desktop alternative?

2004-07-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
will be rather misshapen when opened with Excel and vica versa. So it's not advicable. What about gnumeric? There are also other assorted programs out there to fill the need desired. works fine - actually i use it and works well ___ [EMAIL

Re: Converting or Reading UFS?

2004-07-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have 4 large (120- 200 Gig) hard drives server. The server died and I'm no longer using I can get the data off these drives? - Convert UFS to any other mountable and OS X? If so, where? I thought maybe Ghost, but sector copies, which are not readable by Ghost isn't OS X

Re: Whats the fastest Windows 2000 like Window Manager ??

2004-07-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am setting this up as a test web server with Apache etc... I want very BASIC Windows like GUI with a GUI Text Editor(NOT VI, more like Notepad) to edit configuration files etc AND a Windows Explorer like File Manager to move files easily around from the CD(ie. NOT command line stuff!)

Re: Whats the fastest Windows 2000 like Window Manager ??

2004-07-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The leanest desktop environment for Linux/Unix/FreeBSD is XFCE4. I don't think so; look here: http://www.xwinman.org/otherdesktops.html XD640 looks really cool, unfortunately it's about 1/3 done. but i still don't understand sense of projects like XPde? what's a sense of making

Re: AMD64 support: FreeBSD v.s. Gentoo

2004-07-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does Gentoo or FreeBSD have better support for the AMD64 architecture at this point? what is gentoo? is it some new OS or linux distro? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: AMD64 support: FreeBSD v.s. Gentoo

2004-07-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does Linux or FreeBSD for the AMD64 architecture at this point? It doesn't really matter...yes gentoo is a linux distro. and its the only linux distro I would consider with the AMD64 architecture. I was looking to see if one moment. distribution is distribution, linux is a kernel. CPU

Re: wrong Xircom card??

2004-07-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm trying a net/ftp install of 4.8 on my Thinkpad. The laptop didn't come with a builtin NIC so I bought a Xircom 10/100 card. (I'm using the IBM UBS to CAT5 connector.) The floppy install puts up /stand/sysinstall nicely, but when I goto the network sections

Re: [OT]Re: AMD64 support: FreeBSD v.s. Gentoo

2004-07-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
quite sharper then it was with XFree86. Since some days, -current defaults to X.org. Users of other FreeBSD version can update their ports and have a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING howto switch from XFree to X.org i'm of of topic in X.org and XFree - what's the difference? any URL? thanks

Re: question...

2004-07-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
do you provide also C-sources of your utilities on your web-page? if yes, where can i find them? in installation. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL

Re: BigApache for Windows - Why doesn't BSD have an installerpackage like this ???

2004-07-28 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Hi all, I wish BSD had a BigApache installer package, as it would make my life easier... contribution are welcome! http://www.bigapache.org/ The BigApache Enterprise Ready Server is free software: This Package provides a full implementation of Apache and

allowing cdrecord non-root

2004-07-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
how can i allow given group to be able to write cd's? in NetBSD doing (assuming group name cdrw) chgrp cdrw /dev/rcd0* /dev/cd0* chmod 660 /dev/rcd0* /dev/cd0* in FreeBSD doing this for /dev/cd0 and /dev/acd0 doesn't work. tried to do the same with /dev/xpt0 - doesn't work too. is it

raw devices

2004-07-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
where are raw devices in FreeBSD? do they exist at all? ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bandwidth question

2004-07-31 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all Do you know there is bandwidth software to support Giga ethernet? same place where it is to support fast ethernet. Thank you very much ___ Do You Yahoo!? Get your

Re: bandwidth question

2004-08-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can you tell me in details? I need the bandwidth software to create graph in 1G quite unclear question. you ipfw to create counters for what you need, read it regularly (cron etc.), then process data to greate some graphs etc. (maybe gnuplot).

Re: Help Connecting NT 4.0 to Internet via LAN

2004-08-01 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I had previously attempted to repair a corrupted system file in my NT box but was unsuccessful. I ended up reinstalling back to the original Service Pack 1. My plan now is to upgrade the IE browser and OS on-line but I'm having trouble getting

RE: Remote backup hosting setup?

2004-08-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 we are currently developing a small program/service for our customers exactly for this purpose. To just backup the data to a remote server is very easy, even on Windows: Use cygwin. It comes together with rsync and ssh. I recommend you use rsync

Re: The set-user-ID-on-execution

2004-08-04 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 did I miss something? Yes. Scripts can't utilize setuid/setgid. You can rewrite the script in perl and use the setuid perl interpreter (which is basically a workaround for this) or install sudo and give the script the ability to call sudo

Re: Hacker Scans - Advice requested

2004-08-08 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Is there any way that this can be prevented without impairing the services provided by the operating system. they check passwords from dictionary etc. my advice (i did the same, while i've got scans for guest and test): make such account with very simple one word password home /nonexistent

Re: Swappable Hard drives?

2004-08-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Soon I will have two identical 120GB IDE HDs in my FBSD 4.10 system. One is to be basically a backup drive. Can I write a MBR to the second HD and then swap cables when I want to boot/run the system from the backup HD, assuming I've used pax or

Re: burning mp3's

2004-08-09 Thread Wojciech Puchar
ask... Is there a format specific to burn CDs with mp3 that are playable by such devices? or it is a normal and simple ISO with mp3 files together maybe in a single root directory? normal ISO. some players supports only one level of subdirectories, but everything else is standard

Re: Porting new Software into FreeBSD

2004-08-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
have not yet found a way to port it into FreeBSD ports. Can any body tell me how its done. Are there any documentation on how to do this? The new software is called RURS (Remote Unix Recovery Service). Simply said, it is the same as WINDOWS Gost utility. we already have dd and rsh. it's of

Re: finding the ip address

2004-08-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I modifies your solution slightly, so I could use it for more interfaces easily. ifconfig dc0 | grep inet|awk '{print $2}' ___ if your host use DHCP - you may add something to your dhclient.conf and make some script to record it's IP.

Re: finding the ip address

2004-08-29 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Doh! You'd still have to deal with some text output, though. Sorry. KDK host -t A `hostname`|head -1|cut -f 4 -d ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: maximum hard drive capacity supported?

2004-08-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Upon trying to buy a new hard drive (80 GB) I was asked about the capabilities of my system, and I just thought that these were needed to tell what kind the IDE (ATA) capabilities. However, the vendor said that depending on the BIOS the system might not be able to recognize a large disk.

Re: maximum hard drive capacity supported?

2004-08-30 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Well if the manufacturer states that the BIOS CAN support 80G drives then there is no reason why you should not believe on that. Go ahead and get one of thoes 80G giants. it's rather standard now :) 250GB are available and works with FreeBSD on 500Mhz class hardware :) just /boot partition

moving to larger drive

2004-09-11 Thread Wojciech Puchar
could You help me in commands used to 1) create disklabel and mbr on blank disk 2) install boot loader manually ? i know how to do it in NetBSD, but here it's a bit different. i need to move everything from one disk to another. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: moving to larger drive

2004-09-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
manually ? There is nothing wrong with running sysinstall(8) on a live system. Can even be run remotely via ssh. Suggest you skip down to the (C)onfigure menu. Use (F)disk and (L)abel. Put your new partitions under /mnt/ or someplace separate from your running system filespace. Use

Re: moving to larger drive

2004-09-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Use fdisk to slice and do the mbr. In 4.xxx use disklabel to do disk labeling (partitioning) and boot block. In 5.xxx use bsdlabel to do disk labeling and boot block. Then use newfs to create filesystems in the partitions created with disklabel/bsdlabel. manually ? i know how

921kbps ppp line - problems

2005-11-19 Thread Wojciech Puchar
here is my config default: set log Phase Chat LCP IPCP CCP tun command disable dns stalka: set device /dev/cuad4 set speed 921600 add default HISADDR disable deflate pred1 deflate24 FreeBSD 6.0 on this side, puc/sio compatible interface (TITAN-800H PCI, 8 port interface),

background fsck

2005-11-20 Thread Wojciech Puchar
what is the rule to decide if filesystem may be background checked or not? for example my / is checked foreground, while /home checked background. can't root partition be background checked too? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Procedure for upgrading CPU

2005-11-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm thinking of upgrading the CPU in my machine running 6.0-RELEASE with an SMP kernel. Is it a matter of powering down the machine, swapping chips and powering up? if anything more - then maybe BIOS upgrade if this won't work with new chips. for FreeBSD - nothing at all. same devices,

Re: Question about ZFS support

2005-11-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Are you planning to include support for ZFS(link below) into FreeBSD in any future releases? http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/zfs/docs/ while i'm not FreeBSD coder i would ask question - how does it REALLY work - contrary to information. i mean how it works in practice. IMHO

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and growing. I'm currently looking at a Coraid AoE (ATA-over-Ethernet) solution since it seems to have good support for FreeBSD and Windows drivers in the works. On the other hand, iSCSI has Windows support and FreeBSD in the works. stupid question: can anyone explain me the sense and adventages

Re: Status of 6.0 for production systems

2005-11-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I remember back a while when 5.x had been recently released as STABLE and the conventional wisdom said not to use it in production until the 5.3 release. Is there any such conventional wisdom as regards 6.x? my home system is actually production system that can't be stopped for a long time.

Re: FreeBSD 6 DVD

2005-11-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I would like to know when you will release the official FreeBSD 6 DVD so I can purchase it from FreeBSDMall. Also I want to know what is including this DVD. I think must be like other UNIX-like environments that have all the OS files plus some extra software that you can download them from the

Re: Question about ROOT LOGIN

2005-11-21 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I am sitting here beside my FreeBSD machine and suddenly see this: login: Nov 21 11:54:27 freebsd login: ROOT LOGIN (root) ON ttyv0 and I don't know why it popped up. Isn't ttyv0 the console? You don't think someone has hacked into my system do you? try w (assuming it's not you just

Re: SCSI problem?

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
How to read this error message? It happens more and more lately :(( This machine is running 5.4 with one hard disk SCSI 72 MB exactly as it seems. disk is failing Olivier Nov 22 17:42:50 ufo kernel: Copied 18 bytes of sense data offset 12: 0xf1 0x0 0x3 0x0 0x51 0x3b 0x9f 0xa 0x0 0x0 0x0

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
from people. ICBW but to me it seems that iSCSI is like a distributed NFS backend. You can store the data on multiple devices, in multiple forms (as long as they all talk iSCSI). You can also have two storage sites (geographically separate) connected by fibre and use those for storage. same

Re: Project Management Software

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Could you please tell me if there is any Project Management software that i can use with FreeBSD? Something similar to MS Project..? i don't know M$ Project but cvs works fine, and is really good as it's used by FreeBSD developer for many years !

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
just a cheap PC with cheap IDE drives.. Whole devices accessed directly can be a lot faster than NFS, since the client doesn't have to constantly ask the NFS server whether the file it's currently accessing has changed. any problem to add such option to NFS?? with iSCSI you just CAN't do it.

Re: iSCSI support

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
affect of transfer speed for ONE process reading one file, but not multiuser system. Regardless of whether iSCSI is any good, it's a common access method for SAN devices, and from what I've been told, may be the *only* access method. So AFAIK it's SCSI over FC, SCSI over IP was next probably

Re: Project Management Software

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
used by FreeBSD developer for many years ! Software project management is only a small subset of the project management universe. of course. in *nix world traditionally there are lots of small programs, each doing well it's small work, instead of one huge program. it's good to concentrate

Re: FreeBSD 6.0 GENERIC Kernel perfomance

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
It's only your own opinion until you share with us the measurements that led you to conclude this. FreeBSD 6.0 is much faster than FreeBSD 5.4 in my measurements, especially in the area of filesystem performance. exactly same conclusion here! without even any precise benchmarking, just as i

FreeBSD GENERIC kernelmodules

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i have no idea why almost EVERYTHING is kld-modularized, and once again in generic kernel. below is my almost generic kernel taking 4 times less space, the only difference is that some modules have to be loaded at boot (by loader.conf). wouldn't it be better for true generic kernel? just

growfs - to fear or not to fear?

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
did anyone used this little thing? i have system like this: # /dev/ad0: 8 partitions: #size offsetfstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 1843200004.2BSD 2048 16384 28552 (/) b: 2457600 18432000 swap c: 3125818080unused0 0

Re: FreeBSD GENERIC kernelmodules

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
# Note that 'bpf' is required for DHCP. device bpf # Berkeley packet filter Pretty lean kernel configuration. It's impossible for the GENERIC kernel though to satisfy everyone, for various reasons. what i mean is to change generic kernel in FreeBSD releases. my generic

Re: recompiled 6.0 does not boot -- need help !!

2005-11-22 Thread Wojciech Puchar
boot: Simply copy the default line and append .old, as in: boot: 0:ad(0,a)/boot/loader.old loader.old??? AFAIK loader is not rebuilt while compiling kernel and there is no such file like loader.old created! Here, you can tell the loader to boot the previous kernel: OK boot

so much clock interrupts?!

2005-11-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
that's what i see in systat with FreeBSD 6.0/i386-SMP 540 534 99 pdwak 2000 cpu0: time 16825 pdpgs 2000 cpu1: time on FreeBSD 5.3 live CD i have 100 not 2000 times per second isn't it too

Re: command line sound player?

2005-11-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have searched high and low for a simple command-line sound player that I can call from other apps. I need something that just plays the sound, without any feedback. Like 'cat sound.wav /dev/dsp' but without the almost zero signal-to-noise ratio. Any ideas? thanks, you simply played

Re: command line sound player?

2005-11-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have searched high and low for a simple command-line sound player that I can call from other apps. I need something that just plays the sound, without any feedback. Like 'cat sound.wav /dev/dsp' but without the almost zero signal-to-noise ratio. Any ideas? if it's C program much better

Re: How the heck do you burn a VCD?

2005-11-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
best way to burn this. with the following: burncd -f /dev/acd1 -d vcd star_wreck_in_the_pirkinning_subtitled_xvid.avi you must first prepare VCD image - use vcdimager from ports ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: so much clock interrupts?!

2005-11-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
on FreeBSD 5.3 live CD i have 100 not 2000 times per second isn't it too much?! Yes it is. That's why I have kern.hz=100 in my /boot/loader.conf . -- do you know why they set it too high in 6.0? there must be a reason! ___

Re: so much clock interrupts?!

2005-11-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
540 534 99 pdwak 2000 cpu0: time 16825 pdpgs 2000 cpu1: time on FreeBSD 5.3 live CD i have 100 not 2000 times per second isn't it too

growfs(8) - no fear!

2005-11-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i asked the question recently, no answers, but finally did it this way and all worked fine. i shifted my partition left with dd and resized with growfs. but can bsdlabel be forced to write label with overlapping slices? for temporary operations it will be useful if i know what i'm doing.

installing without sysinstall - question.

2005-11-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
if i would like to install FreeBSD without sysinstall, what things should i do after: 1) dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=1m count=1 to clean up the disk (or da0 or else depending what king of disk is used) 2) bsdlabel -w ad0 3) bsdlabel -e ad0 and edit my slices 4) newfs my slices 5)

Re: defaultroute

2005-11-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Is there a way after changing the value defaultroute in /etc/rc.conf that freebsd accepts the change without restarting? man route ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: so much clock interrupts?!

2005-11-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
That's why I have kern.hz=100 in my /boot/loader.conf . Have you been able to measure a performance benefit from reducing it? Have you shown that reducing it does not cause your performance to *drop*? It was increased for a reason..it actually increases performance on some workloads. no i'm

Re: so much clock interrupts?!

2005-11-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
No, it's just a consequence of HZ=1000 instead of HZ=100. I've so why 2000 not 1000? 2000 on each processor! Technical reasons..anyway, 2000 might look like a large number to you, but it's really not unless you're on a very slow machine (like a 486). i'm asking why it's 2000, not 1000.

Re: so much clock interrupts?!

2005-11-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'm also wondering wether 1000 Hz on a Soekris net4801 (Geode 266 MHz) won't be overkill. I'm planning to migrate some of them from 5.4 to 6.0, probably not. my 400Mhz PII works almost as fast with HZ=1000 and HZ=100 - tested today and doubting wether to change the new default to its more

NCQ SATA drives

2005-11-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
will FreeBSD make any use of that feature? it can with command queue with SCSI drives, and this looks similar ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

right place to load kld modules

2005-11-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
where is right place to do it, other than loader.conf, to load it after kernel is started. i would like to defer usb bus discovery so SCSI bus numbering is independent of USB storage devs connected. i put it for now in usbd but is there any place made for that, like /etc/lkm.conf in NetBSD?

Re: Newbie Q: freeBSD vs openBSD

2005-11-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Newbie for freeBSD. One question freeBSD vs openBSD...what's the difference...security...supportdevelopment stage...other pros cons for each. People say that OpenBSD is the most secure. I say i would be as secure as it's system administrator. If we talk about performance, i agree with

GNOME+NetBSD based X-terminal

2005-11-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
sorry for cross-posting, or exactly reposting after getting no answer, it's not exactly FreeBSD-related but if anyone know, please give me a clue. i'm not GNOME expert, to be exact - i don't use it privately at all, but i have to configure it for others. the problem: first - system(s)

Re: Newbie Q: freeBSD vs openBSD

2005-11-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
it seems the OpenBSD group doesn't actually like questions. You can get flamed for the best worded question. Under FreeBSD, the community is more open to ideas and people trying things. In addition...some parts of the core of OpenBSD cannot easily be upgraded w/o issues. (Like openSSL for

Re: sendmail from src on 6.0

2005-11-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
i'm in database libraries well, but default sendmail from FreeBSD 6.0 install - which i use - looks that way [EMAIL PROTECTED] file aliases.db aliases.db: Berkeley DB 1.85 (Hash, version 2, native byte-order) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org

Re: right place to load kld modules

2005-11-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
/etc/lkm.conf in NetBSD? How about /etc/rc.local or create a script file to go in /usr/local/etc/rc.d to do what you want? rc.local starts after usbd, and module driver that is attached after inserting the device does not attach! is it bug? ___

Re: right place to load kld modules

2005-11-27 Thread Wojciech Puchar
rc.local starts after usbd, and module driver that is attached after inserting the device does not attach! is it bug? don't we load modules in /boot/loader.conf ? yes i do, but kldload is too here. if i - say - attach USB pendrive with no umass.ko loaded, nothing is of course attached

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