Happy New Year!

2007-01-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
Happy New Year from the West Coast! -Matt

changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread Huub
Hi, I built firefox2, but it doesn't keep any changes in preferences, bookmarks etc. What could be wrong? Thanks, Huub

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread Huub
Huub wrote: Hi, I built firefox2, but it doesn't keep any changes in preferences, bookmarks etc. What could be wrong? Thanks, Huub Ok, must be some rights issue. When I start it as root, it works ok.

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread Gergo Szakal
On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 15:30:58 +0100 Huub v.niekerk at hccnet.nl wrote: Huub wrote: Ok, must be some rights issue. When I start it as root, it works ok. Try starting from a terminal as normal user and check the output. -- Gergo Szakal University Of Szeged, HU Faculty Of General Medicine /*

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread Huub
Try starting from a terminal as normal user and check the output. I did that and found nothing odd compared with the root. Can you tell me what specific output should be there with what rights?

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Mon, January 1, 2007 10:07 am, Huub wrote: Try starting from a terminal as normal user and check the output. I did that and found nothing odd compared with the root. Can you tell me what specific output should be there with what rights? If I recall correctly, the preferences are kept

Re: help over rsync vs cvsupd perfmance

2007-01-01 Thread Saverio Iacovelli
Ok, I want to do a good test. So, I need some days yet, about one or two weeeks, the CVSup and rsync mirrors that I will test they are: 1) chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de 2) AllBSD.org 3) TheShell.com My intention about test is the following: 1) I will test CVSup: - without and with compression of

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread walt
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Mon, January 1, 2007 10:07 am, Huub wrote: Try starting from a terminal as normal user and check the output. I did that and found nothing odd compared with the root. Can you tell me what specific output should be there with what

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread Huub
I've been having trouble with both firefox1 and 2, as someone else also posted recently. The problem I see is that firefox will start, run for about five seconds, and the quit with no output of any kind. Deleting ~/.mozilla/firefox doesn't help, although it does get re-created on the next try.

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Huub wrote: I did that and found nothing odd compared with the root. Can you tell me what specific output should be there with what rights? I noticed that thunderbird or firefox (can't remember) did not keep changes. turned out that the prefs file was created 444 instead of 644. don't know

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread walt
Huub wrote: I've been having trouble with both firefox1 and 2, as someone else also posted recently. The problem I see is that firefox will start, run for about five seconds, and the quit with no output of any kind. Deleting ~/.mozilla/firefox doesn't help, although it does get re-created

Re: changes in Firefox are not kept

2007-01-01 Thread Huub
I noticed that thunderbird or firefox (can't remember) did not keep changes. turned out that the prefs file was created 444 instead of 644. don't know why they pulled this stunt. Just checked on that: my profiles.ini has 644. Something odd happened as well: there was a 2nd .default

Re: help over rsync vs cvsupd perfmance

2007-01-01 Thread Karthik Subramanian
On 1/1/07, Saverio Iacovelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok, I want to do a good test. So, I need some days yet, about one or two weeeks, the CVSup and rsync mirrors that I will test they are: 1) chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de 2) AllBSD.org 3) TheShell.com My intention about test is the following: 1) I

Re: help over rsync vs cvsupd perfmance

2007-01-01 Thread Saverio Iacovelli
1) What meaning raw cvsup vs. raw rsync? 2) What is raw BTW, Saverio - when you say you're testing rsync without ssh, I'm assuming that you'll be talking to the rsync daemon on the remote server - is that right? I don't know if I will test this particul feature of rsync, but the problem for me

Re: help over rsync vs cvsupd perfmance

2007-01-01 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Mon, January 1, 2007 10:30 am, Saverio Iacovelli wrote: Ok, I want to do a good test. So, I need some days yet, about one or two weeeks, the CVSup and rsync mirrors that I will test they are: 1) chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de 2) AllBSD.org 3) TheShell.com My intention about test is the

Re: help over rsync vs cvsupd perfmance

2007-01-01 Thread Erik Wikström
On 2007-01-01 18:23, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Mon, January 1, 2007 10:30 am, Saverio Iacovelli wrote: Ok, I want to do a good test. So, I need some days yet, about one or two weeeks, the CVSup and rsync mirrors that I will test they are: 1) chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de 2) AllBSD.org 3)

Can't switch radio on (IWI hardware switch)

2007-01-01 Thread a-burghardt
Hello everyone! I have a Joybook 5200G notebook with an Intel-wireless (2200) card. Is there any way to switch radio on by not using the keyboard. Or is there any way to make my keyboard switch it on? With best regards, Andreas Burghardt

Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
* The CVS tree will be branched in two weeks, on Sunday, January 14th * The 1.8 release is slated for January 28th. I would like people to start testing release oriented bits if possible. We have about two weeks before the CVS tree is branched, and two weeks after it is

Diary page updated

2007-01-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
I have updated our Diary page with all the work done to date! Quite a bit of work was accomplished last semester! I'm really impressed! http://www.dragonflybsd.org/status/diary.shtml -Matt

Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-01 Thread Victor Balada Diaz
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 01:00:31PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: * The CVS tree will be branched in two weeks, on Sunday, January 14th * The 1.8 release is slated for January 28th. I would like people to start testing release oriented bits if possible. We have about two

Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:What's the status of VKERNEL stuff? was one of the major things for :this release. I am going to try to get it done in 2 weeks. No guarentees. It can't hold up the release. But it won't be production for at least two months after that. e.g. we'll need to write a network

'CD server'

2007-01-01 Thread Gergo Szakal
Hello, Not long ago I got a mail from a friend, they have a (some PII thing) computer that has an external 'array' of quite a few SCSI CD-ROMs (sorry, I know no details yet). They would like to run apps that use CDs on Windows computer, so the drives have to be shared via Samba. My main

Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-01 Thread Matt Emmerton
I would like people to start testing release oriented bits if possible. We have about two weeks before the CVS tree is branched, and two weeks after it is branched for fine-tuning and package building. So if there are things you want to get into the 1.8 release but haven't

Re: 'CD server'

2007-01-01 Thread Justin C. Sherrill
On Mon, January 1, 2007 6:37 pm, Gergo Szakal wrote: the drives have to be shared via Samba. My main concern is the changing of the CDs, since there are non-geeks who just want to insert/remove/change CDs whenever they would like to. I'd like to use DragonFly for this, but first of all I

BSDstats report for Jan 1st, 2006

2007-01-01 Thread Marc G. Fournier
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What a fantastic month December turned out to be ... overall, 1st of Month reporting (hosts reporting within the first 24 hours of the month) is up 64% from Dec to Jan ... ... and, looking at Overall reporting hosts for the month of December vs

Re: 'CD server'

2007-01-01 Thread Matthew Dillon
:You'd need to change the permissions so that non-root users could :mount/unmount the CD volumes, which is documented in the FreeBSD :FAQ/Handbook/somewhere in the mailing lists, I think. : :I'd advise taking an existing system (and spare CDROMs, if handy) and :doing a test deployment first.

RE: 'CD server'

2007-01-01 Thread Nigel Weeks
I think there would be a bit of work involved to make it crash-free. Like adding code that allows the CD to be force-unmounted after having been taken out and making sure the filesystem doesn't panic when it suddenly loses it. Things like that. It's certainly possible to

Re: help over rsync vs cvsupd perfmance

2007-01-01 Thread Karthik Subramanian
On 1/1/07, Saverio Iacovelli [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1) What meaning raw cvsup vs. raw rsync? 2) What is raw Um, I just meant cvsup vs. rsync without ssh. Rsync can talk to the rsync daemon that runs on the remote server, I'd think this is the best way that you can use rsync. I don't know

Re: Release Schedule for 1.8

2007-01-01 Thread Karthik Subramanian
:About testing, i think that we should start looking to do automated :regression testing of the system as much as we can. TET[1] looks like :a very good solution and FreeBSD is probably going to use it[2], so we :could get a lot of regression tests for free that apply to DragonFly. : :[1]: