A Sleeping FreeBSD Box.

2006-10-30 Thread nicky
Hello all, I've got a 'weird' problem and i hope someone get point me in the right direction to a proper solution. Somehow, i have no idea why, but my production server falls asleep. It has happened twice now in the last week. When 'sleeping' the box doesn't respond to any outside network re

Parallel shell scripts.

2006-11-08 Thread nicky
Hello, This might be a bit off topic, but can't find anything really useful when searching the internet. So i hope someone can point me in the right direction I have to start 2 processes in the background (running in parallel), capture their return codes and after all 4 have completed succes

Re: Parallel shell scripts.

2006-11-08 Thread nicky
Andrew Pantyukhin wrote: On 11/8/06, nicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have to start 2 processes in the background (running in parallel), capture their return codes and after all 4 have completed successfully i want to continue with the main script. What do you need their return cod

Re: Parallel shell scripts.

2006-11-08 Thread nicky
Creating 'status files' does seem a little easier, more flexable as well. Thanks for the advice, i'll look in to it some more and try to solve it that way. Thanks, Nick Norberto Meijome wrote: On Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:00:34 +0100 nicky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: T

A Sleeping FreeBSD Box (again).

2006-11-09 Thread nicky
Hello, This morning i had another 'sleeping' 6-stable box. I don't really understand why it sleeps. I've checked acpi, but i doubt that is it. Since at the time when it goes to sleep, it does some heavy processing. I don't think it would choose to go to sleep then. The most funny thing is, wh

Possible bug in /usr/bin/script? (was A Sleeping FreeBSD Box (again).)

2006-11-10 Thread nicky
nicky wrote: Hello, This morning i had another 'sleeping' 6-stable box. I don't really understand why it sleeps. I've checked acpi, but i doubt that is it. Since at the time when it goes to sleep, it does some heavy processing. I don't think it would choose to go

Re: Best laptop for Freebsd

2006-11-16 Thread nicky
I've got myself a Toshiba A100-159. Some issues: No sound, no Wireless (to be honest, i haven't really bothered with trying to fix these two yes). Sometimes i get some weird acpi errors in my daily output. It does have one of those 1400xsomething wide screens, which isn't supported (yet) with

Re: firefox performance on Freebsd

2007-01-17 Thread nicky
Have you disabled the IPv6? in about:config set 'network.dns.disableIPv6' to true. Greetz. Dak Ghatikachalam wrote: Hi All I am noticing singnificant performance degradation in firefox in Freebsd , I would say right from the beginning, I have other partition where I run XP. for compari

Re: Can not move directory within FAT32 file-system

2007-02-09 Thread nicky
mv /mnt/1 /mnt/2 The last step will complain " not a directory". But the same steps work in my old pc. Thanks very much. Perhaps if you do mkdir /mnt/2 instead of mkdir /mnt2 Greetz. -- Nicky Bulthuis ValueCare BV Oudlaan 4 3515 GA Utrecht Mob: 06-41341545 E-mail: [EMAIL PROT

Re: installing openoffice by package

2006-06-13 Thread nicky
why use .xls, .doc etc. when you have ODF? save all your documents in ODF. http://porting.openoffice.org/freebsd/#obtain The above link gives you FreeBSD packages for OpenOffice (i've used those myself). Download, use pkg_add. It will tell the missing dependencies, you can either install

Current Cron Log

2006-07-26 Thread Nicky
Hello, I have a script that is started through cron. This script contains several steps, each step writes information to stdout, in case of errors to stderr. The total script runs for about 6 hours and then the the combined output of all steps is mailed to root. However, is there a way to 'exam

Re: Fw: lothlorien.nagual.nl security run output

2006-08-30 Thread nicky
My guess is that there is nothing to be worried about, however i could be wrong. Let me explain.. This morning i received the same kind of message in my security run output (yesterday i've updated all my ports): Checking setuid files and devices: nlp setuid diffs: --- /var/log/setuid.today

8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-05 Thread Nicky Chorley
lated to Xorg. Is it supposed to be like this (i.e. no distributions containing X are presented on installation), or do I need to download other media from which to install? Note that I'm not asking how to install X and I realise that I can do it post-installatio

Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions

2009-12-05 Thread Nicky Chorley
se system. > > If you wish to install X during initial installation you can still do it > when you get to the packages stage. I believe you will need the DVD for > that. > Again, thanks. I'll file a bug report, as you requested. I did install X when the installation got to

Can't load kernel, trying to install on a Dell R900.

2008-02-28 Thread Nicky Bulthuis
up and can be installed. So the hardware does seem to work. Can anyone advice me on how to proceed in getting FreeBSD on the machine. Perhaps an alternative install method, or perhaps the Loader is not configured properly for the R900. Thanks in advance, Nicky __

Re: Can't load kernel, trying to install on a Dell R900.

2008-02-28 Thread Nicky Bulthuis
Mel wrote: On Thursday 28 February 2008 12:51:10 Nicky Bulthuis wrote: I'm having 'a lot' of troubles installing FreeBSD on a new Dell R900 from CD. Somehow it just doesn't seem to be able to load the kernel from the CD. The machine is turned on with the CD is inserted.