Re: Mount Ext3 under DragonFlyBSD

2012-04-28 Thread David Crosswell
by btrfs, as soon as it matures and that's not far away. There are any number of ways you can run two different OSs on the one machine. Just use gparted or similar to resize partitions and eureka. Regards, David Crosswell. You say you want to learn about BSD system administration. You also say

Re: specifying -s flag for openntpd in rc.conf does not work

2012-04-04 Thread David Crosswell
:-( seconding Get a better client. This was sent with the 'Reply List' feature in Ice-Dove. This app. may not be available in DFly, but there must be others. Regards, David Crosswell.

Re: specifying -s flag for openntpd in rc.conf does not work

2012-04-04 Thread David Crosswell
On 05/04/12 06:50, Max Herrgard wrote: David Crosswell wrote: On 05/04/12 03:54, McLone wrote: 2012/4/4 Andrey N. Oktyabrskia...@bestmx.ru: P.S. To the mail list administrator: DragonFly mail lists have not the Reply-To header. Is it possible to add it in the mail lists manager settings? I

Servers.

2012-02-17 Thread David Crosswell
O.K. guys. Ready to go with installing and writing the training materials for the BSD Certification exams. I'm going to be donating copies of the training materials in pdf form and LibreOffice presentations to each of Dragonfly, OpenBSD, FreeBSD and NetBSD as they become available. I can get

Re: repeated reboots

2012-02-02 Thread David Crosswell
for me with Debian SID. Exact same message. I pick and choose my apps and DBus doesn't seem to run that well. It only occurs when I run my few KDE apps. Regards, David Crosswell. I think this is roughly related to the GConf error you reported earlier that I was seeing as well - something

Re: X reboot

2012-01-27 Thread David Crosswell
broken intel or drm. I meant, what does DRI mean? Direct Rendering Infrastructure. http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/ Regards, David Crosswell.

Re: running whois on African IP address returns ARIN record

2011-11-17 Thread David Crosswell
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011 10:20:51 PM Pierre Abbat wrote: On Wednesday 09 November 2011 15:06:50 joris dedieu wrote: Unlike Marco d'Itri's whois implementation that you will find in most linux distro, DragonFlyBSD's whois does not embed a list of prefixes distribution. So it will ask arin.net for

Re: running whois on African IP address returns ARIN record

2011-11-17 Thread David Crosswell
On Fri, 18 Nov 2011 11:11:08 AM Pierre Abbat wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2011 14:59:49 David Crosswell wrote: It might be worth while having a chat with Jakob Appelbaum on the tor project, who is pretty au fait with all this, before making any final assessment, also. Regards, What

Re: SIP/IAX phones

2011-11-11 Thread David Crosswell
or Ekiga. Ekiga is Gnome based, but supposed to work. Linphone I have heard is not so hot. All my experience of softphones is on Debian, though. Regards, David Crosswell.

Re: Can someone upgrade tor in Q3?

2011-11-04 Thread David Crosswell
carries the applicable upgrade. Regards, David Crosswell.

Re: Is Facebook indexing this mailing list?

2011-09-29 Thread David Crosswell
On Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:30:19 AM Max Herrgaard wrote: On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 11:14:37PM +1000, elekktrett...@exemail.com.au wrote: I just opened up a new Facebook account with this email address and, went to People who you may know and I found all the familiar names - Matt Dillon, Jan

Fwd: Nics.

2011-05-18 Thread David Crosswell
Sorry. That was supposed to go to the list. -- Forwarded message -- From: David Crosswell david.crosswe...@gmail.com Date: 18 May 2011 23:40 Subject: Re: Nics. To: Justin Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.com On 18 May 2011 12:47, Justin Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote

Nics.

2011-05-16 Thread David Crosswell
Hello, I've checked out the site and handbook, but I thought I would ask here also in case of recent revelations. Has anybody got any advice on what nics work best with Dragonfly, other than the ones on-site? Thanks for any time and trouble. Regards, David Crosswell. -- In a world without walls

Re: Filesystems

2011-04-23 Thread David Crosswell
On 23 April 2011 20:06, John Marino dragonfly...@marino.st wrote: This post has me so perplexed, I just have to explore further. Hello John, On 4/23/2011 2:15 AM, David Crosswell wrote: Yes, I understand that. I'm looking forward to doing something with Hammer, but I've spoken

Re: Filesystems

2011-04-23 Thread David Crosswell
On 24 April 2011 03:39, Justin Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote: On Sat, Apr 23, 2011 at 7:46 AM, David Crosswell david.crosswe...@gmail.com wrote: Have you ever been accused of being a drama queen before this? Hey, it's the Internet. People get defensive easily. What David

Hardware.

2011-04-22 Thread David Crosswell
purposes, and although I like to play, I don't have a lot of leeway as far as cash goes to make any mistakes. Thanks for any time and trouble. Regards, David Crosswell. -- In a world without walls and fences, what need have we for Windows or Gates? http://www.weavers-web.org

Filesystems

2011-04-22 Thread David Crosswell
I understand the availability of UFS and Hammer in the Dragonfly environment, but is ZFS possible, or are there any plans to facilitate it if it isn't? Regards, David Crosswell. -- In a world without walls and fences, what need have we for Windows or Gates? http://www.weavers-web.org

Re: Filesystems

2011-04-22 Thread David Crosswell
learn C then. Regards, David Crosswell. On 23/04/2011, Justin Sherrill jus...@shiningsilence.com wrote: It's certainly possible. Nobody's working on it right now, to my knowledge. I'm more interesting in seeing Hammer grow, so I'm not that concerned about it. On Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 5:03 PM

Re: Connection reset by peer (ssh)

2010-12-16 Thread David Xu
network link. -Matt Matthew Dillon dil...@backplane.com Note that ssh_config also supports some tunables: ServerAliveCountMax ServerAliveInterval Regards, David Xu

Compatible Laptops.

2010-11-16 Thread David Crosswell
Greetings all, My old laptop, an HP Compaq nx6120 is playing up in a number of different ways, so it looks like retirement time. What's a good reliable model? Any recommendations? Thanks for any time and trouble. Regards, David Crosswell. -- In a world without walls, what need have we

Project.

2010-11-09 Thread David Crosswell
Hello, I have a project in mind. I recently qualified, here in Australia, as a Cert. IV, Trainer/Assessor. This is the course featured here, which will give you some idea of what that involves: http://www.carson.com.au/course_TAE40110.php I've been involved with Debian for some years, so not

Re: SMP (Was: Why did you choose DragonFly?)

2010-09-22 Thread David Rhodus
On the discussion of large SSD caches, Anyone seen these : http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENEN=18120%20600038493IsNodeId=1name=1TB -DR

Switching from Linux to DFBSD (pkgsrc/packages)

2009-11-13 Thread David Chanters
imagine some of the above is on the wiki, in which case, do point me at it! :) David

/usr/Makefile update

2009-01-06 Thread David Rhodus
Should /usr/Makefile be updated with make upgrade ? I noticed my system still talks about using cvsup and not git. -DR

Re: HEADS UP: Dropping ISA EISA support

2009-01-06 Thread David Rhodus
I'm curious how the vga driver will be affected. I have a few old systems still in production that run console only that use ISA video cards. Do you have a patch set to test the ISA removal ? -DR Sascha Wildner wrote: Just to clarify: After 2.2 has been branched (end of January), we'll

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2008-08-17 Thread David Aiello, sympatico

Re: Hunting for missing ACPI interrupt

2007-08-21 Thread David Murray
On Sun 19/8/07 11:54 pm, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 07:55:35PM +0100, David Murray wrote: Anyway, it turns out the power button doesn't work because the ACPI interrupt never appears, at least according to vmstat -i. Does it generate interrupts under FreeBSD? I've just

Re: Hunting for missing ACPI interrupt

2007-08-20 Thread David Murray
Hi Tomokazu, On Sun 19/8/07 11:54 pm, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: On Sun, Aug 19, 2007 at 07:55:35PM +0100, David Murray wrote: Anyway, it turns out the power button doesn't work because the ACPI interrupt never appears, at least according to vmstat -i. Does it generate interrupts under FreeBSD

Hunting for missing ACPI interrupt

2007-08-19 Thread David Murray
diagnose which it is? I did take a look through the FreeBSD ACPI mailing list (I'm assuming the Dragonfly code's still pretty similar) but found only lots of problems with interrupt storms, not interrupt droughts. Thanks in advance! -- David Murray

Re: Hunting for missing ACPI interrupt

2007-08-19 Thread David Murray
Hi Walt, On Sun 19/8/07 11:12 pm, walt wrote: David Murray wrote: I've got box here where the front-panel power button has never worked - it doesn't shut the system down... My BIOS has setable options for how the power switch should behave, e.g. how many seconds I must hold it down before

Re: ACPI: getting front-panel power button to cause shutdown

2006-11-28 Thread David Murray
Hi Tomokazu, On 28/11/06 8:59 am, YONETANI Tomokazu wrote: On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 08:04:26PM +, David Murray wrote: I'm trying to get the front-panel power button to shut the system down (cleanly). Pressing the power button delivers an interrupt to the acpi driver... so the first step

Re: ACPI: getting front-panel power button to cause shutdown

2006-11-26 Thread David Murray
On 26/11/06 1:29 pm, Johannes Hofmann wrote: David Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to get the front-panel power button to shut the system down (cleanly). Currently when I press it, nothing discernible happens shutdown -p now, and acpiconf -s 5 You might try: sysctl -w

Re: ACPI: getting front-panel power button to cause shutdown

2006-11-26 Thread David Murray
On 26/11/06 3:25 pm, Justin C. Sherrill wrote: I realize I'm asking about basic things, but it's always good to be sure: Absolutely! your power button works to turn the system on, correct? Yes, I couldn't start the system otherwise! :-) And it is wired to the motherboard? Yes, and

ACPI: getting front-panel power button to cause shutdown

2006-11-25 Thread David Murray
Would anyone be good enough to help a DragonFly newbie with an ACPI question? I'm trying to get the front-panel power button to shut the system down (cleanly). Currently when I press it, nothing discernible happens (no console messages, nothing logged, and certainly no shutdown). shutdown

Re: load balancing

2006-11-03 Thread David Cuthbert
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: Only if you use a broken web server. With a proper O(1) event notification mechanism and async web servers, keep-alive is a huge win, if you don't have a single server load high enough to run out of file descriptors. Heh... well: - We only recently got proper O(1)

Re: load balancing

2006-11-02 Thread David Cuthbert
Oliver Fromme wrote: It's probably not useful for HTTP, because most of these should be keep alive and/or use transfer encodings (which Apache does by default for HTTP/1.1 connections). Most large sites don't use keep alive. It ties up a worker thread waiting for another request to come from

Re: Problem with ssh connection

2006-10-25 Thread David Cuthbert
Matthew Dillon wrote: For that matter, for anyone who is serious about security, never allow a passworded login (ssh or otherwise) for ANY account. How do you log in at the console, then? Eventually, you have to log in at a console *somewhere* (unless you have a com port jacked in to

Re: Problem with ssh connection

2006-10-25 Thread David Cuthbert
Vladimir Mitiouchev wrote: On 25 Oct 2006 13:38:43 GMT, Oliver Fromme How does that work on the console, exactly? How do you feed your public key into getty(8)? I don't think that's supported. Sorry, i missed console, this thread is about ssh, as You say. :-) Heh... I was going to say: I

Re: Cable internet

2006-10-16 Thread David Cuthbert
Bryan Berch wrote: It is about I get rid of dial-up and get something faster. My only other choice is Comcast broadband. My questions are: 1. Has any one used it and is it worth it? 2. What cable modem did you use? I've been using it for ~3 years now. I've had two major issues during

Re: Can't start KDE or TWM with KDM

2006-10-03 Thread David Aubril
there is an option in the configuration file ( maybe kdm.conf somewhere in /usr/pkg/share... not sure ) which let you hide the users you decide. Frank Petitjean wrote: Le Mon, 02 Oct 2006 10:12:13 +0200, Frank Petitjean [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit: Am additional question about KDM : I

Re: Can't start KDE or TWM with KDM

2006-10-03 Thread David Aubril
well, i know you can do that. There's some option you have to set in mk.conf. ( look at /usr/pkgsrc/mk/mk.conf.example ). But it seems that's the best way to get everything working. I think I tried, and it didn't work better. Frank Petitjean wrote: Le Mon, 02 Oct 2006 17:35:53 +0200, David

Re: Can't start KDE or TWM with KDM

2006-10-03 Thread David Aubril
shell : #ln -s /usr/pkg/xorg /usr/X11R6 It worked for me. Thanks David, it works fine. I just had to change the location from /usr/X11R6 to /usr/X11. Do you know whether it is possible to install a package like xorg to its normal location (ie /usr/X11) ? Note that /usr/X11

Re: Can't start KDE or TWM with KDM

2006-10-02 Thread David Aubril
Well, I'm just a french guy. But I met that a couple of times. I guess that there is a line somewhere which still refers to /usr/X11R6. So that's what I wrote in my shell : #ln -s /usr/pkg/xorg /usr/X11R6 It worked for me. Justin C. Sherrill wrote: On Mon, October 2, 2006 4:12 am, Frank

dragonfly wine

2006-09-28 Thread David Aubril
. Is there a reason for that ? Does that mean that wine doesn't build on dragonfly ? Thanks. David.

Re: dragonfly wine

2006-09-28 Thread David Aubril
Well, unfortunately, I am not a developper ; just a french teacher. I would have love to help, but this is way too far for me. Thanks for your answers, though. Yury Tarasievich wrote: On 28/09/06, David Aubril [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi everyone. Well, yet another question. I have

how to install gnome ?

2006-09-25 Thread David Aubril
Well, I just joined the list, and I am sorry to start with such a question. I was wondering how to install gnome from the binary set. I looked at the packages that have just been uploaded in the test repository, but there is no package called gnome or gnome-base. So, with the binary set of

Re: how to install gnome ?

2006-09-25 Thread David Aubril
. Sherrill wrote: On Sun, September 24, 2006 2:50 pm, David Aubril wrote: Well, I just joined the list, and I am sorry to start with such a question. I was wondering how to install gnome from the binary set. I looked at the packages that have just been uploaded in the test repository

nv driver does not work

2006-08-26 Thread David Xu
to it, but FreeBSD I have installed on it reports IRQ 20. Also the SATA 150 hard disk only works at DMA 33 as it reports ? David Xu

Re: STLport?

2006-08-01 Thread David Cuthbert
Joerg Sonnenberger wrote: Which is the ultimate reason why I refuse to touch it. No program has the right to assume anything about the size of FILE, period. Except the C++ iostreams library (which is part of STL sigh). It requires knowledge about the internals of stdin/stdout to perform

Re: DragonflyBSD on the desktop (was: Re: Replacing Sendmail with Postfix in the base system)

2006-06-15 Thread David
Matt, Normally Sir I sit here lurking in the shadows hoping to learn a thing or two. But I feel I must speak out here. CONGRATULATIONS!!! For what it's worth you did the right thing. Contentiousness always causes problems. best to prune it out. Regards David Matthew Dillon wrote

Re: KDE: battery monitor for DFly?

2006-05-09 Thread David Rhodus
On 5/9/06, Thomas Schlesinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, does anybody know a battery monitor app for KDE (3.5), working on DFly? And yes, I know gkrellm ;-) Thomas Last time I checked xbatt didn't compile under pkgsrc, but it shouldn't be very much work to fix it. -DR

Re: Can DFly handle ...

2006-04-16 Thread David Xu
, it seems it still only know process not thread. Regards, David Xu

Re: ICH7 ?

2006-04-06 Thread David Xu
Kevin L. Kane wrote: ok some more info... using this iso: http://chlamydia.fs.ei.tum.de/pub/DragonFly/snapshots/i386/LATEST-Devel.iso.bz2 it fails with default option at the loader prompt, but if you say load with ACPI disabled it works fine. -Kevink I tested your cd image, if I

Re: ICH7 ?

2006-04-05 Thread David Xu
Chuck Tuffli wrote: On 4/4/06, David Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any dragonflybsd .iso I can install on intel ICH7 south bridge based machine ? I was able to install 1.4 on a ECS PF5 Extreme (Intel 945 based w/ ICH7). Using a SATA-II drive didn't work (NCQ maybe?), but I was able

Re: ICH7 ?

2006-04-05 Thread David Xu
Andreas Hauser wrote: bsddiy wrote @ Wed, 05 Apr 2006 17:27:02 +0800: Chuck Tuffli wrote: On 4/4/06, David Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any dragonflybsd .iso I can install on intel ICH7 south bridge based machine ? I was able to install 1.4 on a ECS PF5 Extreme (Intel 945

ICH7 ?

2006-04-04 Thread David Xu
Is there any dragonflybsd .iso I can install on intel ICH7 south bridge based machine ? David Xu

Re: [OT] Disk sector size

2006-03-31 Thread David Cuthbert
Matthew Dillon wrote: Most of the arguments quoted are incorrect. The one about the ECC length is correct, but the inter-sector gap argument doesn't apply to most modern drives because they already do full-track reads and writes, without gaps between sectors. Yeah, I'm a bit

Re: .bashrc not working

2006-03-21 Thread David Nugent
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, for some reason it appears that .bashrc is not being read after a login. It contains this line: export PATH=$PATH:/usr/pkg/bin:/usr/pkg/sbin if i run this directly on the command line it works. Any ideas whats wrong? Im running 1.4. By default, bash does

Re: NVIDIA driver

2006-02-16 Thread David
who can be politely asked to help release the correct info to us. I really wish there was some way I could contribute however my programming skills are at a see spot run level It will take some time for me to get up to speed Regards David Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: David wrote

Re: NVIDIA driver

2006-02-16 Thread David
Exactly although I didnt see anything there about video cards. Maybe somewhere in the DRfly wiki? David Marcin Jessa wrote: On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:11:10 -0600 David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I have a suggestion. Why dont we have a place on the web site where a list of know working

Re: NVIDIA driver

2006-02-14 Thread David
So. What are those of us with Nvidia cards to do? Install a different video card? David Emiel Kollof wrote: Op dinsdag 14 februari 2006 13:00, schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Does the nvidia driver for FreeBSD work on DragonFly? I think I'm the most qualified to answer this, assuming you

chip-architect.net archive

2006-02-13 Thread David Rhodus
Anyone have an archive of chip-architect.net ? The site has been down for a while now and google cache seems to be missing the images from the site. -DR

Re: Heads up: libtool updates

2006-02-02 Thread David Rhodus
On 2/2/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, please be careful when updating your system from pkgsrc -- libtool-1.5.22 has currently an issue with encoding rpath entries in libraries. It should be fixed today or tomorrow, so be warned. Joerg Joerg, thanks for the heads up.

pkgsrc fix for Dillo browser relevant for DragonFly?

2006-01-09 Thread David H. Gutteridge
Hi all, I recently submitted a patch to fix a problem with the Dillo web browser on NetBSD, and thought I'd ask DragonFly users if something similar would help them. Before 3.0, NetBSD did not have re-entrant resolver functions, but Dillo assumed otherwise, which led to lock-ups. I don't know

Re: copying pkgsrc tree around jails on beefy machine - fast on 2nd iteration, a bit slower than first on 3rd iteration

2006-01-05 Thread David Rhodus
On 1/5/06, Matthew Dillon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : :If the machine has 3-4GB of memory why shouldn't the vnode and buffer :cache do some better auto tunning. If the kernel has a VM system :shouldn't the kernel be aware of how much memory is in use for the :entire system and make all of the

nvidia driver error

2005-09-26 Thread David
help!! did a make install in the dfports and got the following. nv-kernel.o nvidia_ctl.o nvidia_dev.o nvidia_linux.o nvidia_os.o nvidia_os_pci.o nvidia_os_registry.o nvidia_pci.o nvidia_subr.o nvidia_sysctl.o ld -Bshareable -o nvidia.ko nvidia.kld install -o root -g wheel -m 555

Re: make buildword failed

2005-09-24 Thread David Xu
The patch does not work, I am just upgrading from 1.2 release. Sepherosa Ziehau wrote: If it is during the bootstrap-tools building stage, please take a look at: http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/mailarchive/bugs/2005-09/msg00090.html Best Regards, sephe On 9/25/05, David Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Mounting problem

2005-09-22 Thread David
Thanks that did it! I thoght that may be the fix but I am so new to this I really didnt know. Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote: On 22.09.2005, at 18:20, David wrote: I have been trying ( with no luck) to get a extended dos partition to mount W2K see's it as the D drive

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-06 Thread David Cuthbert
Chris Csanady wrote: I've watched ReiserFS crash and burn in horribly bad ways that the resulting fsck upon reboot took a long weekend to complete. Was this on an ATA disc by chance? I imagine that this sort of file system would be extremely fragile with write caching. That aside, I don't

Re: UFS filesystem size limit

2005-09-04 Thread David Cuthbert
walt wrote: Are you counting a crash as a form of 'reboot'? I can certainly understand why a busy kernel developer might want to speed up something he does many time a day -- but most sysadmins probably never want to reboot... Heh... a crash is not only a form but probably the form of reboot

Re: Linux Emulation in the Future

2005-09-01 Thread David Rhodus
On 02 Sep 2005 07:13:51 +1000, John Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joerg Sonnenberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 07:47:23PM +1000, John Duncan wrote: I run a Linux program which carries its own build system and will probably never have the appropriate elf

Re: Compatability with FreeBSD Ports

2005-08-15 Thread David Rhodus
On 15 Aug 2005 00:17:07 -, Andreas Hauser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: dillon wrote @ Fri, 12 Aug 2005 09:27:44 -0700 (PDT): So the answer is no... we are going to have to move to (almost certainly) pkgsrc and fix whatever issues we have with it. Well, currently ports are still