RE: Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Gary Aitken Sent: Friday, February 01, 2013 12:55 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List Subject: Crucial SSD firmware upgrade -- usb flash drive issues I've got a Crucial m4 SSD which needs a firmware upgrade. From the Crucial website I've downloaded an image which supposedly is an iso image bootable from either CD or a usb stick. Since the fbsd install images are different for booting from cd and usb flash drives (the flash image is significantly larger), I'm wondering if there's anything I need to be aware of when attempting this. I tried copying the ssd firmware update image to a flash drive using: dd if=firmwareupdate.iso of=/dev/da0 bs=64k which seemed to work. However, when I attempt to boot the device, BIOS complains about it not being bootable and says to fix it or select something else which is bootable. I know the drive can be bootable because I used it for the fbsd 9.1 usb boot image and it worked fine. The documentation for the SSD firmware upgrade says Create a Bootable USB Drive with the following steps (summarized here, no real content omitted): 1. Start with a newly formatted USB drive 2. Open a USB installer program. If you don't have one, you may download a free one such as Universal USB Installer... 3. If you are using the Universal USB Installer, then: 3a. At the Step 1 drop down box, scroll to the bottom and select the last option: Try Unlisted Linux ISO 3b. Go to step 2 (in the pgm) and browse to the firmware ISO that you downloaded earlier 3c. Go to step 3 (in the pgm) and select the flash drive on which you want to install the ISO 3d. Click the Create button and click Format E:\Drive 3e. A sequence of screens will appear and disappear... The above is all highly confusing to me, as it's not clear who's doing what. I'm guessing the Universal Installer Program actually writes a boot block and then the bootable image someplace beyond that, and the iso image supplied is not really a complete bootable image for a flash drive -- it's missing the boot blocks. Can anyone suggest a way to create a bootable flash drive using this image? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- unsubscr...@freebsd.org Please see the below site for a script to convert the .ISO into a .IMG that can be dd written to the thumb drive http://www.daemonforums.org/showthread.php?t=4361 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: When Is The Ports Tree Going To Be Updated?
So is portsnap cron update and portsnap fetch update doing the same thing? Whichever way, it sounds like I need an initial run of portsnap extract before putting this in crontab. From scratch, you need to portsnap fetch extract to establish your ports directory. After that you either use portsnap fetch update to interactively update or use portsnap cron update for a cron script. Fetch and Cron are identical except Cron adds a randomized time delay so as not to fire off EXACTLY at the time you set. This helps prevent everyone and their brother nailing the update server exactly at midnight every night, but rather spread it out a few minutes. Do NOT use a randomizer on your cron timer with portsnap cron or you will be double randomizing and wondering why it seems to never be updating sometimes. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: BSD on IOS hardware
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Shane Ambler Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 3:13 PM To: Rares Aioanei Cc: Greg Freeman; freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: BSD on IOS hardware On 02/10/2012 22:58, Rares Aioanei wrote: On Thu, 27 Sep 2012 10:18:06 -0400 Greg Freeman m...@gefreeman.com wrote: Is it possible to load FreeBSD on an Apple Mobile device designed to run IOS? There are a lot of old iPads out there. If we could repurpose them to straight Unix pads that might be cool. From there shells and then maybe an open source alternative to IOS or Android. Maybe a way for people to get free of the info pirates How do you intend to type on it? While apple offers a bluetooth keyboard I have seen docks with a keyboard built in. The other option is that the system will need xorg installed as the minimum setup so you have a touch screen with onscreen keyboard. The ipad/ipod would be a target that netbsd may try - I don't believe they have though. I don't think they support the newer touch screen devices but rockbox is an opensource ipod (and other mp3 players) firmware replacement. It could be a starting point for booting another OS. Having said that I think your best bet would probably be jailbreaking the ipad so you get more control over what you can install. Search for cydia I hate to say it, but wouldn't it be easier to just buy a cheap android tablet in the first place? Some of the ones from china are only a hundred bucks or so but run ICS on a 7 screen. I do like the idea of trying to push BSD to more devices. Would be neat to host a full website from an ipod, but I do agree that would be more the realm of NetBSD, not FreeBSD. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: have desktop on freebsd
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of saeedeh motlagh Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2012 5:49 AM To: Bernt Hansson Cc: Stephan Schindel; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: have desktop on freebsd thank you every body for your answers. i understand that my garphic card is NVIDIA not intel therefore i installed nvidia driver from port. now it seems that everything is ok. there is no error in Xorg.log file and when i run startx command, no errors occurred. but when i restart my system,i don't have desktop yet. i don't know what to do and search for what, because there is no error. please tell me if you have any idea about it. Thanks - Are you saying that X doesn’t work after reboot or are you saying that X doesn’t automatically launch after reboot? If it’s the latter, you need to enable it, either by turning tty8 on or by adding line to startup config. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of jb Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 8:05 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ? Hi, this should not be ignored; sooner or later things will get nasty ... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/25/microsoft_patent_deal_amdocs/ The sooner FreeBSD gets rid of Linux-based software (apps, tools) in its ports, the better. The FB Foundation and Core Team should enact a plan. This should actually happen regardless of MS in the shadows and validity of their claims. jb Are you referring to actual Linux-based software or are you confusing GNU-based software? Remember that Linux is only the kernel, GNU is the OS. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ?
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2012 9:12 AM To: Traiano Welcome Cc: jb; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Patent hit - MS goes after Linux - FreeBSD ? FUD. Ignore. They're going the same way as SCO. even if not it's just matter to add proper licence to right ports in port tree and require user to accept it. That already exists. Install java and it will have you manually download it so as to accept their license, or the Intel NIC drivers that have you add a license acknowledge line in loader.conf. FreeBSD as a whole is not encumbered. that was whole issue over the UNIX license issues way back when (which indirectly led Linus Torvalds to write Linux). Further releasing the burden has been seen with the replacement of GCC with CLANG to get the core OS to be as close to 100% BSD licensed. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: how to speed up port make??
Got you beat. Compiled world on a 100MHz Pentium with 40 MB of RAM. I gave up after 4 days and just went with prebuilt after that. -Sean -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Polytropon Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2012 6:54 PM To: Mr U Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd org Subject: Re: how to speed up port make?? On Wed, 25 Jul 2012 08:02:37 -0700 (PDT), Mr U wrote: hi is it possible to speed up port make ?? i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram, compiling xorg takes about 2 hours That's a fully normal make time on such a system. I've been experiencing it on FreeBSD 5 and 7 (with ATA disks and 768 MB SDR-SDRAM). There is no real way to speed it up, except to replace the hard disk with a SSD. But that's only for I/O, not for compiling itself. You also won't benefit from using the -j parameter (maximum number of jobs), because the P4 does not seem to support it. There's not much you can do to improve the system performance. You _can_ few things to streamline the system, but that won't be a _significant_ change. Plan your builds to take place when you don't use the system interactively, or use the nice command to give building a lower priority. It will last longer, but can be run in the background without noticing it. Don't complain about build times until you compile world and kernel on a 150 MHz Pentium 1 with 64 MB RAM. :-) To give you some impressions of real-work build times, see those examples: FreeBSD 5, 500 MHz P2 system: # make buildkernel KERNCONF 1:11 # make buildworld 3:54 FreeBSD 5, 2 GHz P4 system: # make buildworld buildkernel 2:13 # make buildworld 1:58 # make buildkernel KERNCONF=* 0:25 # make installkernel KERNCONF=* 30s On the same system: A portupgrade of XFree86 server: 2:12 And mplayer including nearly all options: 1:19 FreeBSD 7, 2 GHz P4 system: # make buildkernel KERNCONF=* 1:05 # make buildworld 3:54 Even worse: # time make buildkernel KERNCONF=* -D USBDEBUG 18232.967u 2427.404s 7:19:49.24 78.2% 391+379k 47250+5754io 3049pf+0w # time make buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF=* 18992.839u 2569.146s 9:12:00.28 65.1% 927+762k 25593+6358io 2506pf+0w (No idea how I got _that_ time!) # time make buildworld buildkernel KERNCONF=* 17272.243u 2294.595s 6:01:33.44 90.1% 24+204k 34888+6367io 2911pf+0w 18541.285u 2596.192s 6:19:33.55 92.8% 498+327k 31247+7302io 3034pf+0w 19725.009u 2882.355s 7:39:11.57 82.0% -875+548k 44987+6963io 2950pf+0w -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Why Clang
i wouldn't be surprised that FreeBSD team would decide to go back to gcc soon. I would as one of the driving forces of the change was to replace GPL licensed code in FreeBSD core with more permissive licensed code. This helps to remove a massive legal encumberment for a lot of developers who no longer have to worry how their BSD licensed code has to be treated if its compiled thru a GPL compiler. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: IP - e-mail
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Robert Huff Sent: Wednesday, June 06, 2012 9:18 AM To: Matthias Apitz Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IP - e-mail Matthias Apitz writes: Let say my computer is connected to the internet with a cable modem and has a dynamic IP address via DHCP. This address is refreshed after every random days. I want to know the new address even when I'm not home. Like send an e-mail with the new IP, I already know how to do this, but how can I track the event when my computer receives the new IP? If you are using it so you know what IP to hit from outside your network, I would also recommend taking a look at a service like DynDNS as you would have a DNS name that would auto correct for new IP. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Erich Dollansky Sent: Friday, April 13, 2012 9:12 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Julian H. Stacey; Tony; Steffen Daode Nurpmeso Subject: Re: FreeBSD's backwards webdesign / corporate identity Hi, On Friday 13 April 2012 18:44:07 Steffen Daode Nurpmeso wrote: Julian H. Stacey wrote [2012-04-13 13:13+0200]: The 1000 year Reich lasted 6. 13. Not for all, though. 1945 - 1933 gives 12. Do I have to start a calculator now? Its 13 INCLUSIVE. You're calculating exclusive ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Stas Verberkt Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2012 2:14 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Making Music / Video folders on FreeBSD visible on HD TV Carmel schreef op 13-03-2012 18:29: Presently, I have three HD TVs, two Samsung and one Sony. On these TVs there is a menu where I can access remote devices to access music or videos. By marking the folders shared in Windows, these folders are available on these TVs. I have found no way to accomplish the same thing with my FreeBSD-8.2 PC. Simply using Samba and creating a shared music or video directory does not work. I contacted Samsung and they told me that they do not support architecture other than Microsoft MAC and that I should contact whoever wrote the OS I am working with for assistance. I didn't bother with Sony since I assume I would have only gotten the same response. If anyone understands what I am talking about and has a feasible solution I would love to hear. I had considered either mapping a drive in Windows that pointed to the FreeBSD share or creating a link to it. I would prefer not to have to go that route however, even if it did work. I probably should add that this entire system is wireless with the exception of the FreeBSD machine that is hard wired to the wireless router. My guess would still be Samba, as this is an implementation of the shared folders of Windows. Maybe your configuration was not perfect? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions- unsubscr...@freebsd.org Make sure that the SAMBA shares are not hidden. Test from a windows PC to see that they are listed properly. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Raspberry Pi
People have not had a chance to get their hands on to even start on it yet. The few boards out in public before last week were developer boards that were really hard to get a hold of. Most current devel is based on linux due to the binary blob. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Chad Perrin Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 3:49 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Raspberry Pi Has there been any movement toward getting BSD Unix systems running on the Raspberry Pi platform? I've been searching for information along those lines, but so far have seen nothing. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Processor question
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Mike Dockery Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2012 2:47 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Processor question Greetings, I have been a user of Linux since 1994, but most of the linux distros seem to be getting away from freedom... which is why I chose it in the first place. They seem intent on forcing things that do not work well (like pulseaudio and nouveau) on everyone. Freedom of choice is always best. My question is: Should I try the amd64 version of FreeBSD with my Intel Core i7-2600 processor or should I use the i386? I hope to give FreeBSD a try later this month. Thanks, Mike Dockery ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org Up to you if you want 32-bit or 64 -bit. Used to be that some of the higher level ports only worked in 32-bit but more and more have been tweaked to work on both now. If you have 4GB or more memory, def recommend amd64. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: freebsd is really bsd?
-Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of LinuxIsOne Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 9:47 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd is really bsd? hi, Is freebsd simply bsd name, means it is free so they appended the word 'free' is it like this? Thanks ___ The best explanation I have ever seen to give people fresh to the BSD project is the following youtube clip from years ago. It traces all the way back to its origins and gives nice examples of some of the small companies that use BSD derived code in their programs. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7tvI6JCXD0feature=relmfu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: [OT] pfSense Book Publisher
I think you would have a better response asking that question on the pfsense mailing list as the author hangs out on it. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Alejandro Imass Sent: Friday, September 02, 2011 4:33 PM To: FreeBSD Questions Subject: [OT] pfSense Book Publisher Hi, Anybody know the editorial/publisher of the psSense book? Thanks, -- Alejandro Imass ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Gnome-Panel fails to upgrade
?I am unable to upgrade /x11/gnome-panel. every time i run portupgrade -a, i fails with the following line while compiling --- g-ir-scanner: warning: Option --strip-prefix has been deprecated; see --identifier-prefix and --symbol-prefix. Couldn't find include 'GConf-2.0.gir' (search path: ['.', '/usr/local/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/share/gir-1.0', '/usr/local/share/gir-1.0']) gmake[3]: *** [PanelApplet-3.0.gir] Error 1 gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/x11/gnome-panel/work/gnome-panel-2.32.1/libpanel-applet' this obviously has the bad effect of blocking 21 other ports from getting updated (aka, the rest of gnome) anyone have any clue of what needs to be done to fix this issue? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Small computer to run a GUI?
. Date: Sun, 9 May 2010 16:07:26 +0100 From: cwhi...@onetel.com To: millenia2...@hotmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Nice but doesn't have a VGA port (but does have HDMI) http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2-specifications/ you mean like the adapter they sell? http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/accessories/ Ah ha didn't see that, in fact several useful looking items on the same page. Oh, available soon for the vga adapter... :) Chris If i read the site correctly, the HDMI port is used as a DVI port. not sure if it means they have a DVI adapter too or you need to acquire your own HDMI-to-DVI cable. Otherwise these look pretty nice. I would not have known there was a PC smaller than an ALIX style. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Small computer to run a GUI?
-- From: Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2010 8:03 AM To: Andrew Gould andrewlylego...@gmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small computer to run a GUI? Andrew Gould wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 6:47 PM, Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.comwrote: Sounds like you want a netbook. -- Adam Vande More I was more thinking of something without a monitor, keyboard or mouse. I want to put it in a cupboard and not worry about it. With a netbook i'd probably have to leave it open (or else it would go into suspend mode or heat up or...). I was just hoping for something Soekris size but with a VGA output. Mark Have you taken a look at the fit-PC2? Since it can run Linux, the odds are it can run FreeBSD as well. You might want to ask the creators. http://www.fit-pc.com/web/ Andrew Nice but doesn't have a VGA port (but does have HDMI) http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/fit-pc2-specifications/ you mean like the adapter they sell? http://www.fit-pc.com/web/fit-pc2/accessories/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Replacing Home Router With PC
-- From: Nerius Landys nlan...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, March 12, 2010 1:26 PM To: C. P. Ghost cpgh...@cordula.ws Cc: Mark Shroyer subscriber+free...@markshroyer.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Replacing Home Router With PC Yep! Geode-based boxes are great. The ALIX boards are looking like Soekris gear, which I'm very happy with (of course running FreeBSD): http://www.soekris.com/net5501.htm I would be very interested into looking into purchasing one of these small devices, but I'm really scared about the FreeBSD install procedure. ___ not to sidetrack the discussion, but you might want to take a look at pfsense if you want a freebsd based router. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: about the checksum
they are there so you can compare the real checksum hash for the .ISO file against what you downloaded as a way to make sure you downloaded every single bit of the file or if it has been changed. -- From: Ffflee Ffflee ffflee_fff...@yahoo.com Sent: Friday, February 26, 2010 4:39 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: about the checksum when i downloaded the freebsd ISO files is there any reason why i should downlaod the checksum files also? why would they be on the download ISO page if there isnt a reason for them being there. what is the purpose of checksum files? and do I need to download them? I got the freebsd cd ISO. do i need any others off the same page. ..Newby. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:47:08 +1100 From: smi...@nimnet.asn.au To: son...@otenet.gr CC: nick.chor...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 8.0 installation doesn't contain X distributions In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 287, Issue 16, Message: 8 On Sat, 05 Dec 2009 19:39:08 +0200 Manolis Kiagias son...@otenet.gr wrote: Look, I'm sorry, but I think this is a huge regression, especially if we're still hoping that people with no prior experience of installing freeBSD, people coming from Linux and such, for essentially or including desktop use, are going to have a rewarding installation experience. I think this is taking base-system-only installation purity to excess. Fine for people installing servers of course, and maybe it will shift more people wanting a GUI environment towards PC-BSD and such if we want to discourage these from using FreeBSD as it is (or maybe, was) but even with my 11 years experience of installing FrreeBSD versions from 2.2 till now, I kept on wondering, how would a newbie fare at this point? The main disadvantage is - access to all packages :) In the case of X, you and I, developers and most people here know to hunt for the Xorg meta-port. But the naive or new installer knows of no such thing, and could beat around in the huge lists of X software for ages, wondering what's required and what's not to get a desktop going. The previous basic setup menus in sysinstall for X were not only useful; I suspect that they are virtually essential for someone, say, coming from Debian or Ubuntu or such, wanting to try FreeBSD on their system, or the genuine first-time installer of FreeBSD. sysinstall used to assume as little prior knowledge or need to pre-read the Handbook and/or FAQ or follow the lists as possible. Now it's seeming much more firmly targeted at the already experienced user, and I feel that's regressive. cheers, Ian to play devils advocate, how many people do you know run a pure version of Linux? next to nobody does because there are distros built (ie, red hat, ubuntu, yellowdog...) that have the structuring together. I agree with the other person who mentioned PC-BSD as I agree that that would be perfect for a true newbie to *nix to install and use FreeBSD. most linux people will know all about packages and should be able to fumble thru the package installer in sysinstall just fine until they find the ports list. if the user is a complete newbie to *nix in general, we would all be refering them to the documentation, or a good published freebsd book. I can definitely state from my beginnings with FreeBSD as my first *nix, the packages system is pretty easy to find software users are looking for. you could technically transpose your comments about users not knowing how to install xorg with a GUI like Gnome or KDE. its still boils down to the well labled meta- package/port. but to sum it up. when i am introducing someone new to *nix and i want them to use freebsd, i point them to PC-BSD as it just works, then when they get comfortable, i show them the rest of what freebsd has to offer them, and sometimes they switch to a straight freebsd install the next time they build a system. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: flash alternative
From: millenia2...@hotmail.com To: af.gour...@videotron.ca Subject: RE: flash alternative Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:22:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2009 10:00:01 -0500 From: af.gour...@videotron.ca To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: flash alternative I have heard that there is an alternative to flash that is apparently more efficient and less cumbersome in terms of data transfers; and that it is lighter whatever that may mean. Anyone know anything about this? TIA PJ if yer refering to gnash then yes it is lighter, but I have had issues where it does not work for every flash based website. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Wireless network control
I am just trying to find out if theres an easier way to do this. currently to get wireless to work on my system, i have to clone the wireless interface to a wlan0 interface to actually do any real connections. My home network uses WPA2 encryption so i use the wpa-supplicant to set that up, but if i go out and about and hit free wifi spots, I have to add the info for them into the wpa-supplicant.conf file to get it to access it. keep in mind that ideally I use the latest gnome as my desktop. is there an easier tool to do this all with? I remember there was an issue with the gnome-network tool that it could not actually make any changes in freebsd, but i cannot find if that is still true or if it has been fixed. End goal, I am trying to get this set up to be equally as idiot-proof as most linux distros in case i have to hand this off to someone a bit less technically inclined. sorry if this is a bit hard to read, i have ADHD so it someti..OHLOOKASQUIRREL -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: How painful is the nv driver supposed to be?
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:28:19 -0500 From: pldro...@pldrouin.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How painful is the nv driver supposed to be? Hi, I am using the nv xorg driver on 8.0 amd64 with a GeForce 6600 (CPU is an i7 overclocked at 4GHz) configured in 1920x1080. With that setup it takes about 2 seconds to maximize a window or to switch workspace in fluxbox. Is there a way to improve speed or this is all I can hope to get? the default nv driver with xorg does not fully utilize the nvidia GPU. install one of the nvidia drivers from /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-driver* make sure you pick the one that still has support for your card in it as they cull older cards from the newer drivers. judging by nvidia.coms driver lookup, the highest driver that supports the GeForce 6 series was 191.07 also make sure to follow the extra instructions that you get after installing the driver if i remember correctly, theres a line you add to /boot/loader.conf and you change the xorg.conf file driver from nv to nvidia -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FW: DNS Question
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:08 -0400 From: dave.l...@pixelhammer.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: DNS Question Good morning. I have been asked by my co-workers and sales why I always create a A record for new domains we host instead of a CNAME. The issue I run into lately with some domains is that a client has a website with a industry host such as frank.relator.com and he wants to have DNS point www.frank.com to frank.relator.com with a CNAME. The client does not want an A record for frank.com. Somewhere, in a class far far away, I was taught a DNS zone had to have a A record to function properly. I can't seem to locate anything in the RFCs. Am I wrong? I think you are confusing basics of DNS records. you are partially correct in that a DNS zone needs an initial A record to be able to translate a name to an IP, but there is nothing wrong about setting up a CNAME to point to a record in a different zone instead. you just cannot do a zone that has a CNAME only that does not at some point to a valid A record. CNAMEs are forwarders only whereas A records are actual lookups. for proper way to set this up The A record would be assigned for the main name that you want to associate to an IP address. The CNAME record just relates a different name to that original name. this allows you to change the IP address of the server and only have to update the original A record instead of every DNS record for that server. for small number of vhosts, this would not really be an issue, but imagine if you were hosting a couple hundred vhosts from a single IP and then had to change that IP because you switched your ISP. It would take you a LONG time to update them if they were all A records, but only a couple of seconds if you had it properly set up as CNAME's www.bobshosting.comA 192.168.0.1 www.vhost1.com CNAME www.bobshosting.com. www.vhost2.com CNAME www.bobshosting.com. www.vhost3.com CNAME www.bobshosting.com. www.vhost4.com CNAME www.bobshosting.com. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
FW: DNS Question
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:17:48 +0200 From: lcon...@go2france.com To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DNS Question All true, and I did not do a very good job of explaining it. My issue was that we have requests to use a CNAME for the domain record. Such as this. example.com CNAME otherdomain.com www.example.com CNAME otherdomain.com I was taught this was not good form worse, it's illegal. how is this illegal? if you are residing your domain on a hosting service, this makes sense to me. Granted its bad form and should have an A record to the host for the main domain record, but if i had control over otherdomain.com and not example.com and had to change the IP address, example.com would be dead until i was able to reach the owner of that domain and have them change their DNS info. , but allowed. I can deal with it. But what of having a SOA record for example.com, no A or CNAME record for the TLD example.com, only hosts such as www, ns1, ftp, etc. I tried it an it seems to work fine, but doesn't look proper to me. Then again I remember when CNAME were considered evil. CNAMEs are still evil, unless 1) no other solution exists and 2) the user knows how to use CNAMEs (rare). Len there is nothing that says you HAVE to have your tld labled in DNS. you would just run into issues if someone types http://example.com into their web browser and not get a result in DNS. to clarify on CNAME's a bit better. CNAME's are nothing more than DNS aliases. the reason you do not want to overuse them is that you could potentially create a loop if you are not careful www.site1.com CNAMEwww.host1.com. www.host1.comCNAMEwww.site1.com. syntactically, this is correct but would cause an infinite loop until a timeout occurred on your computer. also you want to limit how many weird names you get associated to one box. it makes sense if you want www.example.com to point to your web server, which you may have officially called srvWeb, but looking at things like a mail server, would you rather only have the entry: mail.example.comCNAMEsrvMail.example.com. or have to edit this: pop3.example.comCNAMEsrvMail.example.com. smtp.example.comCNAMEsrvMail.example.com. imap.example.comCNAMEsrvMail.example.com. The other interesting side would be reverse DNS lookups. Only one record would be returned, and most likely would be the original A record. A nice example of this is doing a basic ping -a www.yahoo.com which you get back that it is resolving www-real.wa1.b.yahoo.com. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: DNS Question
how is this illegal? CNAME rule: a node with a CNAME cannot contain any other records. for the node domain.tld: domain.tld. soa ... domain.tld. ns ... domain.tld. cname otherdomain.tld. this node has a CNAME and other data, so it's illegal, no matter what you want to do, or what makes sense to you, or what is convenient for you. ah yes, forgot about that. you are correct on that line. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: how to build from ports without downloading ports
-- From: Noah noah-l...@enabled.com Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 4:35 PM To: User Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: how to build from ports without downloading ports Hi there, I have a server with minimal disk space. is there a way to build from ports without downloading ports or only downloading what is needed for the build and then it is removed? I assume you mean that you have such little space that you would not be able to download an entire port and its prerequisites and then delete it after everything is compiled and installed as you could with a simple make install clean I would recommend doing make install clean in spurts so that you don't run out of space (get a couple of prerequisites out of the way at a time), or install the packages for the programs you want and then update them with ports. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: is this Intel CPU ok for 7.2 AMD64?
Does it matter whether I run IA64 or AMD64 in the above Dell 1850? Len This is a case where I wish the architecture types were renamed to modern day nomenclature. Most people outside the *nix world know i386 as the x86 architecture and AMD64 as either x86-64 or straight x64. IA64 is for Itanium architecture only and will not work on any x86 or derrived architecture. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: security run output
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2009 13:31:56 +0200 From: be...@bah.homeip.net To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: security run output Hello list! I'm getting the messages below far one machine and I can't remeber how managed to do that. I want that for my other machines as well, but can not remeber how to activate it. Checking for a current audit database: Database created: Wed Oct 7 03:55:02 CEST 2009 Checking for packages with security vulnerabilities: ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org that would most likely be the portaudit utility /usr/ports/ports-mgmt/portaudit ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update to -BETA2 p1
-- From: Eitan Adler eitanadlerl...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, August 17, 2009 6:48 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd-update to -BETA2 p1 AlphaBeta# freebsd-update fetch install Looking up update.FreeBSD.org mirrors... 3 mirrors found. Fetching metadata signature for 8.0-BETA2 from update5.FreeBSD.org... done. Fetching metadata index... done. Inspecting system... done. Preparing to download files... done. No updates needed to update system to 8.0-BETA2-p1. WARNING: FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 HAS PASSED ITS END-OF-LIFE DATE. Any security issues discovered after Thu Aug 13 20:00:00 EDT 2009 will not have been corrected. AlphaBeta# freebsd-update install No updates are available to install. Run '/usr/sbin/freebsd-update fetch' first. AlphaBeta# uname -a FreeBSD AlphaBeta 8.0-BETA2 FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 #0: Wed Jul 15 23:25:30 UTC 2009 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org wild guess, yer wondering why uname is not coming back as P1? it will not change unless there's a kernel patch or you recompile it yourself. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2009 13:32:46 +0200 From: st...@mapper.nl To: freebsd-am...@freebsd.org; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org CC: Subject: 8.0-BETA2 not getting my 4Gigs of ram Hello, I'm fully enjoying installing FreeBSD 8.0-BETA2 amd64. However, it does not seem to be able to use all my ram. Strangely enough, it says the following: [r...@carmen ~]# dmesg |grep memory real memory = 2147483648 (2048 MB) avail memory = 4112240640 (3921 MB) and [r...@carmen ~]# sysctl -a|grep mem [/snip] hw.physmem: 4277510144 hw.usermem: 3954216960 hw.realmem: 4831838208 [/snip] I'm still on a fresh install with a generic kernel. Any ideas as to what might be going on? greetz, Mark need to enable PAE mode in the kernel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: FreeBSD as a router
I prefer pfSense. it started as a fork of M0n0wall and has since incorporated a LOT more features. it uses pf as its filter base and is fully expandable using plugins -- From: Derrick Ryalls ryal...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 10:33 AM To: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Ivailo Tanusheff i.tanush...@procreditbank.bg; Odhiambo ワシントン odhia...@gmail.com; owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org; Anton an...@sng.by Subject: Re: FreeBSD as a router You might also check out monowall. It is a stripped down version of FreeBSD that can run off a small flash card and has a web interface. On Jun 11, 2009 6:05 AM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: powerful. Hmm, PF would be better (not IPF) but I hear ipfw ha smore features . basicly - if you think ipfw can't do something - read manual again ;) exaggerated, but not very much... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l... ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD
-- From: Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl Sent: Saturday, May 23, 2009 12:09 PM To: Gabor Kovesdan ga...@freebsd.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-mob...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: netbooks vs FreeBSD I'm about to buy a netbook, which: - is compatible with FreeBSD (wifi is especially important) - has a good battery life (at least 4 hours) - has a normal HDD not an SSD point 2 and 3 is somehow incompatible - HDD takes more power. anyway in order of few watts, compared to CPUs taking 20-50W, excluding those really mobile. so 4 hours on batteryHDD seems possible. I respectfully disagree. As much as I hate Apple as a company, I currently have a MacBook Pro that gets over 4 hours of battery life and has a 200+gig HDD in it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list
based on Linus Torvalds (which we ALL know is RIGHT) states that when asked if the name GNU/Linux was justified: Well, I think it's justified, but it's justified if you actually make a GNU distribution of Linux ... the same way that I think that Red Hat Linux is fine, or SuSE Linux or Debian Linux, because if you actually make your own distribution of Linux, you get to name the thing, but calling Linux in general GNU Linux i I think is just ridiculous. (G)ot (N)othing (U)nique takes years since 1989 for http://is.gd/zGZh Hope this helps. thanks Saifi. And in the end, the world almost never heard of Linux and would have had BSD everywhere. Linus stated that he prob would have never made Linux if the litigation around BSD 4.4 had ended earlier. But why he feels like he can take over the GNU OS just because he made the kernel never made sense to me. I'm glad the GNU project finally got Hurd going though, even though they too almost went with a BSD 4.4 based kernel before Linux came along -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list
Date: Wed, 13 May 2009 12:55:52 -0400 From: jerr...@msu.edu To: korikov...@gmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 08:33:44PM +0530, Shakil Khan wrote: Hi, Can anyone let me know how can I download FreeBSD kernel source code. I am on Linux and am not able to download using CVS. Can someone point me exactly and also if some links are available where I can download tar ball of FreeBSD kernek source code. My suggestion would be to download the latest ISO and install it on a machine with full source. Then you will have kernel and everything to make a FreeBSD including the correct compilers and libraries. Kernel is really dealt with differently in FreeBSD than in Linux. Although there is a kernel, it is intimately part of the whole operating system, not a kernel which someone grabs makes up a separate distribution with. to piggy-back a little more, FreeBSD is an entire Operating System whereas Linux is just a Kernel used to run the GNU Operating system (The true nomenclature is GNU/Linux when refering to a Linux based OS). the GNU project is currently working on writing their own Kernel named Hurd based off the mach kernel. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list
-- From: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org Sent: Wednesday, May 13, 2009 9:04 PM To: Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com Cc: jerr...@msu.edu; korikov...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Welcome to the freebsd-questions mailing list On Wed, 13 May 2009, Sean Cavanaugh wrote: (The true nomenclature is GNU/Linux when refering to a Linux based OS). Not true. Please give us the credit for userland is the line of reasoning used for the puported TLA prefix ! silly actually. Please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU/Linux_naming_controversy thanks Saifi. based on the wiki page (which we ALL know is NEVER wrong) states that GNU/Linux is the correct form and the ONLY reason for calling it just Linux is that its easier to say and that's how its known overall in mainstream media. There is additional in that it also runs non-GNU based programs such as apache, but the base of it all is that Linux by itself is not an OS, just a kernel. Debian Illustrates this perfectly as they have done several different distros using different Kernels to run GNU userland, including FreeBSD ( http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/ ), NetBSD, and Hurd. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: How to Update my Freebsd packages kernel and Core
for the base OS (kernel and core are same thing, unlike gnu/linux), use freebsd-update. If you compiled your own kernel, then it will skip updating the kernel only, in which case just csup /usr/src and recompile anyway for ports, there are many methods. Read the ports section in the handbook. personally I use prt-mgmt/portupgrade. -Sean -- From: Panos panos...@gmail.com Sent: Thursday, April 02, 2009 6:30 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: How to Update my Freebsd packages kernel and Core Hello I'm new to Freebsd and I would like to know if there is anything like apt-get for upgrating everything in my Freebsd. If not Could you tell me how I can do it. Some of my packages are from ports and some using the sysinstall and I install them from the cd. I use Freebsd 7.1 thank you very much. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
non-root user able to burn CD
Long story short, I am trying to set up Brasero to burn CDs. It will not let anyone other than root even see the blank CD-R as a destination option since non-root users do not have access to burn from the drive. Gnome Does see the blank disk and i get associated icon on my desktop Where do i set who has permissions to burn with the CD drive? -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: Portsnap vs CSup
From: f...@brightstar.bomgardner.net To: ch...@monochrome.org; cho...@charter.net Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 17:45:11 -0600 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Portsnap vs CSup On Thu, 19 Mar 2009 18:50:48 -0400 (EDT), Chris Hill wrote On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Charles Howse wrote: On Mar 19, 2009, at 2:13 PM, Adam Vandemore wrote: I just noticed the description in the man page for freebsd-update: ...Note that updates are only available if they are being built for the FreeBSD release and architecture being used; in particular, the FreeBSD Security Team only builds updates for releases shipped in binary form by the FreeBSD Release Engineering Team, e.g., FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE and FreeBSD 6.2-RC1, but not FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE or FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT. Is this saying that I can't get a binary upgrade for 6.4-STABLE? That is exactly what it's saying. (You would not believe how long the make world process takes on a Pentium 200!!) I believe it; been there! I seem to recall it went something like 'start the buildworld and go to bed'. -- Chris Hill ch...@monochrome.org ** [ Busy Expunging | ] ___ Rhink that's bad? I've been trying to build KDE4 on a toshiba satellite laptop for over a week now. IHN, Gene compiling the kernel on that could take several days by itself let alone compiling X and then a thick GUI like KDE or GNOME. amazing that a 100MHz system with 48 megs of ram can still run so fast if you build it right. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Old slow computers can still crank away (Formerly RE: Portsnap vs CSup)
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:48:26 +0100 From: woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl To: millenia2...@hotmail.com CC: f...@bomgardner.net; ch...@monochrome.org; cho...@charter.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Portsnap vs CSup compiling the kernel on that could take several days by itself let alone compiling X and then a thick GUI like KDE or GNOME. amazing that a 100MHz system with 48 megs of ram can still run so fast if you build it right. for sure not KDE, but X and FreeBSD itself with good software running on it works FAST on 100Mhz machine with 48MB RAM. Yes compiling is slow, but normal usage is FAST. I never used gnome or KDE on it, ran Blackbox insted. _Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports on Macbook
-- From: Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:31 AM To: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi le...@k1.com.br Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-po...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports on Macbook 2009/2/27 Sergio de Almeida Lenzi le...@k1.com.br: Em Sex, 2009-02-27 às 14:45 +0300, z...@zaa.pp.ru escreveu: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 03:04:09PM +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: Hi I hear that Mac OS X and later ones are based on FreeBSD. My wife is planning to get a Macbook , which I don't quite approve. Mainly because we need to pay for any upgrade or new add ons. for simple clarification. OSX is built on top of Darwin which is BASED on FreeBSD, but is not BSD. its BSD code built on top of the Mach kernel. Ports are just the source code for the programs yer looking for anyway so there's nothing stopping you from doing stuff like installing OpenOffice or Gimp under OSX. I've seen people replace the Quartz interface with Gnome before. overall Im with you in abstaining from anything with the name apple attached to it since its all overpriced underpowered crap. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: ZFS + Samba = nicely
-- From: Chris Rees utis...@googlemail.com Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:35 AM To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ZFS + Samba = nicely 2009/2/26 Brad Pitney pitney.b...@googlemail.com: Hi can anyone help me? I am trying to setup a home file server with FreeBSD -CURRENT along with Samba Basically I have followed the wiki for ZFS and done the usual things for Samba like I have before with UFS. Basically my problem is that when I go to create a file or folder, the file server locks up, but I am able to switch terminals with ALT+Fn keys, everything else is locked solid -- Best regards, Brad Why are you running an unstable distribution with an unstable filesystem for production servers?? Chris Since when are home servers considered production level? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports on Macbook
- From: Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:32 AM To: FBSD UG free...@rgbaz.eu Cc: freebsd-questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports on Macbook FBSD UG said the following on 2009-02-28 10:50: On 27 feb 2009, at 13:39, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Em Sex, 2009-02-27 às 14:45 +0300, z...@zaa.pp.ru escreveu: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 03:04:09PM +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: Hi I hear that Mac OS X and later ones are based on FreeBSD. My wife is planning to get a Macbook , which I don't quite approve. Mainly because we need to pay for any upgrade or new add ons. Hello... I use a free version of the Leopard based on darwin (freebsd6) named hackintosh it is the google, it is free, and just works... You can even buy a standard notebook, and install. I will transform the notebook in an apple leopard 10. Tha's, ehm, quite illegal to say the least... Of course it isn't illegal. You can run any system you like on your own hardware. unless you actually READ the licensing on OSX that says It can only be installed on apple brand hardware ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Ports on Macbook
-- From: Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:26 AM To: Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com Cc: freebsd-questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports on Macbook Sean Cavanaugh said the following on 2009-02-28 16:25: - From: Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:32 AM To: FBSD UG free...@rgbaz.eu Cc: freebsd-questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports on Macbook FBSD UG said the following on 2009-02-28 10:50: On 27 feb 2009, at 13:39, Sergio de Almeida Lenzi wrote: Em Sex, 2009-02-27 às 14:45 +0300, z...@zaa.pp.ru escreveu: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 03:04:09PM +0530, Nataraj S Narayan wrote: Hi I hear that Mac OS X and later ones are based on FreeBSD. My wife is planning to get a Macbook , which I don't quite approve. Mainly because we need to pay for any upgrade or new add ons. Hello... I use a free version of the Leopard based on darwin (freebsd6) named hackintosh it is the google, it is free, and just works... You can even buy a standard notebook, and install. I will transform the notebook in an apple leopard 10. Tha's, ehm, quite illegal to say the least... Of course it isn't illegal. You can run any system you like on your own hardware. unless you actually READ the licensing on OSX that says It can only be installed on apple brand hardware It doesn't really matter much what they say in their eula. If i bought a copy then i can do/install whatever I want since there isn't any agreement between apple and me. For the agreement to be binding I must sign a contract with apple. read the license. PLEASE READ THIS SOFTWARE LICENSE AGREEMENT (LICENSE) CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THE SOFTWARE. BY USING THE SOFTWARE, YOU ARE AGREEING TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS LICENSE. http://www.apple.com/legal/sla/macosx.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: THE HACKINTOSH
-- From: Sergio de Almeida Lenzi le...@lzt.com.br Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 11:54 AM To: freebsd-questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: THE HACKINTOSH Hello... Seems that I was acused of warez, pirate..., So, please if you to to the site of hackintosh, you will see that it is a Darwin, Macos is based on Darwin, and because of the copyright (the famous GPL...) apple must give away the software they use to build macos... so there is Darwin if you look at http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource it show all the Leopards including the 10.5.6 (source code)... I did not see any restriction of use, for darwin, (well may be a commercial use???) Apple is NOT GPL. Since the code is based on BSD Licensed code, the don't have to do anything they don't want to. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: hi
instead of editors/pico, try editors/nano -- From: Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 5:48 PM To: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org Cc: GrimJow Espada grimjow.esp...@gmail.com; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hi On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:11:46 +, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Gentoo userland and emerge tools are easier and elegant though not certainly superior to FreeBSD make mechanism. This is based on my personal experience as i heavily use Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD on older hardware. And offcourse, i can easily emerge pine 4.64 on Gentoo but there is no way i can do it on FreeBSD. You can always check out `ports/mail/pine4' from a date before its removal from the ports/ tree and build it on FreeBSD too. If you need help with maintaining a local copy of the relevant ports (`mail/pine4', `mail/pine4-ssl', and `editors/pico') let me know and I'll write a short mini-guide for checking out the ports before their removal and building them as local ports. The source for these ports is no longer maintained, and they may pose a security risk if you use them on multi-user machines --- especially if untrusted users have local shell access --- but if you want to shoot your foot, the Ports tree already provides gun ammo to do that :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
RE: desktop app/config
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing I think what you are looking for overall would prob be a baseline install with either Gnome or KDE installed. Personally I prefer Gnome but KDE is more MSWindows like in its interface. You can go as far as to skin either of them to look like MSWindows. setup a basic user with no system control and no password for users to log in with and change /etc/ttys so that ttyv8 is turned on and set to GDM or KDM (depending on which you want to use). Definitely configure what additional software you need installed per your needs. -Sean -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening.It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help learning FreeBSD. FreeBSD Unleashed and Absolute BSD are a couple of them The FreeBSD Handbook which is online at the FreeBSD web site and is installed if you want it when FreeBSD is installed is quite good. The FreeBSD site also has other documents and links listed. At first, it will seem a little strange. Generally FreeBSD is command oriented, not pointy/clicky oriented. That is a much more powerful way to administer a system, but it takes more initial learning. Ask questions. People on the list have already heard all the common complaints and gripes that FreeBSD is not like MS-Win dozens of times. The usual response is Thank God or something similar. Anyway, they are not interested in hearing whines again. But, if you have a real question about 'how to do' something or even 'why is it done this way' and not just grousing, people on the list are usually very good about giving answers. List people are very interested in helping people learn, but not interested in people complaining. If it is a bug, post a pr. If it is a feature request, remember that FreeBSD is created and maintained by volunteers - very smart ones - but they have limits on time and resources so your request may take a very long time to get attention. You may well learn how to do it yourself and then submit it as an improvement before then. Good luck and have fun. jerry thanx ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___
RE: desktop app/config
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:19:09 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: millenia2...@hotmail.com; jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config That's sounds like what I'm looking for, however, when you say login with no user or password- I'm not sure if I like that because our fileserver is going to have to authenticate them at some point as will access to the printers so somewhere somehow I need a login no? What i was refering to was having a basic user with no system authority such as deleting files and whatnot on the local machine. dont want inexperienced user screwing up a perfectly fine system. if you have a file/print server set up then you are correct and should prob use a password for the user account. i was assuming local access only. -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:17 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing I think what you are looking for overall would prob be a baseline install with either Gnome or KDE installed. Personally I prefer Gnome but KDE is more MSWindows like in its interface. You can go as far as to skin either of them to look like MSWindows. setup a basic user with no system control and no password for users to log in with and change /etc/ttys so that ttyv8 is turned on and set to GDM or KDM (depending on which you want to use). Definitely configure what additional software you need installed per your needs. -Sean -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening. It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help learning FreeBSD. FreeBSD Unleashed and Absolute BSD are a couple of them The FreeBSD Handbook which is online at the FreeBSD web site and is installed if you want it when FreeBSD is installed is quite good. The FreeBSD site also has other documents and links listed. At first, it will seem a little strange. Generally FreeBSD is command oriented, not pointy/clicky oriented. That is a much more powerful way to administer a system, but it takes more initial learning. Ask questions. People on the list have already heard all the common complaints and gripes that FreeBSD is not like MS-Win dozens of times. The usual response is Thank God or something similar. Anyway, they are not interested in hearing whines again. But, if you have a real question about 'how to do' something or even 'why is it done this way' and not just grousing, people on the list
RE: desktop app/config
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:39:53 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: millenia2...@hotmail.com; jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config What is the terminology that I would need to search in the handbook to get a bsd machine to authenticate with AD I have Mac machines that authenticate to our network- but that's easy to configure TO connect to a Windows Active Directory, you need to use LDAP for authentication. HOW to do that is beyond me and thus google.com is your friend. -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:36 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:19:09 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: millenia2...@hotmail.com; jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config That's sounds like what I'm looking for, however, when you say login with no user or password- I'm not sure if I like that because our fileserver is going to have to authenticate them at some point as will access to the printers so somewhere somehow I need a login no? What i was refering to was having a basic user with no system authority such as deleting files and whatnot on the local machine. dont want inexperienced user screwing up a perfectly fine system. if you have a file/print server set up then you are correct and should prob use a password for the user account. i was assuming local access only. -Original Message- From: Sean Cavanaugh [mailto:millenia2...@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:17 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola; jerr...@msu.edu Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2009 12:05:08 -0500 From: jnat...@familycareintl.org To: jerr...@msu.edu CC: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: RE: desktop app/config I think we went off track a bit- I do know freebsd- my mail filter is a FreeBSD with clam exim and sa- but I NEVER use the gui's - I want to setup some recycled machines with bsd and a gui that will be easy for a user to grasp- I have mac users and pc users here- But thanks for all the tips- I currently use ee for editing I think what you are looking for overall would prob be a baseline install with either Gnome or KDE installed. Personally I prefer Gnome but KDE is more MSWindows like in its interface. You can go as far as to skin either of them to look like MSWindows. setup a basic user with no system control and no password for users to log in with and change /etc/ttys so that ttyv8 is turned on and set to GDM or KDM (depending on which you want to use). Definitely configure what additional software you need installed per your needs. -Sean -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:jerr...@msu.edu] Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 12:00 PM To: Jean-Paul Natola Cc: questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: desktop app/config On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 10:27:30AM -0500, Jean-Paul Natola wrote: Hi all, I'm replacing some machines and want to setup some stations in the library running FreeBSD- What is the easiest for an XP user to get accustomed to and what config do I need so that when the machine starts (power / boot) it will automatically launch the desktop gui The easiest way to get used to it is to just fully install the latest FreeBSD (that is 7.1 at the moment) RELEASE, update it to RELENG_7 or RELENG_7_1 so it has the latest patches. Install Xorg for Xwindows so you will have graphics. Then install a few handy ports from the /usr/ports tree. Some you will want are Firefox and Thunderbird and Openoffice, although you may want to install Openoffice from a binary package rather than from ports. Openoffice is very big and building it can be daunting for a newbie. Some other good candidates might be Apache and Perl and maybe a couple of games for fun. Then, just start using it. Learn to find things you need on the system. and configure the network securely. There is lots of documentation in the FreeBSD Handbook and other places online. The more you do it, the more they make sense. One thing to learn is using the vi(1) text editor. There are many other editors, but for system management, vi is the omnipresent, ubiquitious one. It is sometimes the only one available in times when bad things are happening. It feels rather clunky when you first start to use it but it quickly becomes second nature. The FreeBSD man page is pretty good on it. I have a web page that simplifies it a little at: http://z2.cl.msu.edu/~jerrymc/project/editvi/ There are a number of books available that help
Re: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting
Nano supports syntax highlighting. it is off by default but can easily be turned on. I think that you actually have to find the config file to make it handle PHP though but that can be found pretty easily on the web -Sean -- From: Simon Griffiths simon.griffi...@tenenbaum.co.uk Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 7:27 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting Hello Everyone, I'm guessing this is off-topic so thank you in advance if you can offer any help. I currently SSH into a couple of freebsd machine I have dotted about which run some console and web based php code. This is all fine and dandy but when it comes to remote support I struggle reading plain code when the file gets over a certain size and find a little syntax highlighting helps a lot. So can anyone recommend an editor that can do this ? I did try vim some time ago but being a novice in these areas I couldn't get the syntax file to load and help on the web confusing or indecipherable. TIA, Si. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest
-- From: Sebastian Setzer sebastianset...@alice-dsl.net Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2009 3:47 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: freebsd-update doesn't seem to update to Latest Hi, I did a freebsd-update to 7.1-RELEASE as described in the release notes. After that, I installed Openoffice (with pkg_add) and got several warnings like this one: pkg_add: warning: package 'gnome-vfs-2.22.0_2' requires 'atk-1.22.0_1', but 'atk-1.20.0' is installed Now I did # pkg_add -r atk pkg_add: package 'atk-1.22.0_1' or its older version already installed so with pkg_add -r I get newer packages than I got with freebsd-update. Why? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org freebsd-update only maintains the base OS. If you want to update the ports use either portmanager or portupgrade ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Release schedules
-- From: Joe S js.li...@gmail.com Sent: Friday, December 12, 2008 12:20 PM To: Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Jonathan McKeown jonathan+freebsd-questi...@hst.org.za Subject: Re: Release schedules On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 4:01 AM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 12:59:24PM +0200, Jonathan McKeown wrote: I've been biting my tongue about this because I'm not sure that I can offer any help or useful suggestions, but here goes... What on earth is going on with release scheduling? Two words: volunteer project I would propose to do away with the release schedule altogether, or make it very succinct; next release: when it's done. What? Isn't that the Linux kernel schedule? Give me a break. The OpenBSD team of volunteers makes a new release every six months, with target release dates in May and November. I can't recall a slip of even one day. I know, this isn't OpenBSD, but it proves that a regular release schedule is indeed possible. also remember that 6.4 was being worked on at the same time. there's only a finite number of people to spread across both projects. finalization of 7.1 should come faster as 6.4 has been released ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Question on creating a video server
Has anyone done this with FreeBSD and open source software, and has recommendations on what hardware to get and what software works with it? Look up MythTV. it's the opensource alternative to Windows Media Center and has a lot of nice functionality. It is in FreeBSD ports too. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CUPS wont print inside GNOME
I have the latest GNOME installed from ports and have the odd issue of CUPS not wanting to work with it right. If i access the CUPS web configuration page, i can print test pages just fine and not a single issue, but if i try and print a test page from inside GNOME, including trying with the gnome-cups-manager port, it will stop and present the following error /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster failedthis error will carry over to the web interface and those jobs are pretty much hosed, yet i can create a test print from web interface even when this error is present. I do notice that test pages from web interface come from user anonymous whereas test pages from gnome-cups-manager are from the respected user that ran it. even root is unable to print from inside gnome. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: CUPS wont print inside GNOME
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 17:58:06 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME Sean Cavanaugh skrev: I have the latest GNOME installed from ports and have the odd issue of CUPS not wanting to work with it right. If i access the CUPS web configuration page, i can print test pages just fine and not a single issue, but if i try and print a test page from inside GNOME, including trying with the gnome-cups-manager port, it will stop and present the following error /usr/local/libexec/cups/filter/pstoraster failedthis error will carry over to the web interface and those jobs are pretty much hosed, yet i can create a test print from web interface even when this error is present. I do notice that test pages from web interface come from user anonymous whereas test pages from gnome-cups-manager are from the respected user that ran it. even root is unable to print from inside gnome. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.5/1757 - Release Date: 2008-10-30 14:35 Hi Sean, I assume you have cups-pstoraster installed? It should be installed when installing CUPS itself. If you built Gnome from source you should have this in /etc/make.conf CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=yes NO_LPR=yes WITH_CUPS=yes /Roger i have cups-pstoraster installed. like i said, i can get a test page to print fine from the CUPS web page, just not if it was initialized inside gnome even though i do see the print jobs sitting in the queue for the printer with status Stopped. Restarting the jobs doesnt help them any either. i installed everything from ports but my make.conf file is a little bare UnKnown# less /etc/make.conf # added by use.perl 2008-10-23 14:57:35 PERL_VER=5.8.8 PERL_VERSION=5.8.8 -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CUPS wont print inside GNOME
--TRUNCATED-- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.175 / Virus Database: 270.8.5/1757 - Release Date: 2008-10-30 14:35 Hi again Sean, Add the lines, make reinstall and see if Gnome picks it up.. There's an excellent site at http://www.math.colostate.edu/~reinholz/freebsd/ that has CUPS related information. Please let the list know if it helps! /Roger I got it fixed, I ran make rmconfig-recursive on gutenprint and CUPS and rebuilt them making sure gutenprint was set to use CUPS. this forced some other stuff to work and now it actually has the postscript driver listed for my printer and it fully works in gnome now. never had to touch /etc/make.conf. I find it kind of self defeating for the ports if you HAVE to add stuff to the /etc/make.conf file for it to work without any documentation telling you to do so or not doing it automatically (Like PERL did) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:19:28 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: High Performance Computing Mini-Cluster Hello, i am interested in setting up a small cluster, of about 5 machines to show how this can work on a university environment. Its kind of a pitch to university authorities to show them how this work so they can think on investing top dollars on it. We have a bunch of workstations running FreeBSD, However as i been reading through the documentation, the canonical situacion would be a environment where the machines netboot over the server, get most of their partitions over NFS and have NIS installed so users can authenticate at the server and share resources available at the cluster. not an answer to your question, but you might be interested by this http://mini-itx.com/projects/cluster/ might give you some insight into what you are looking for -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: php5 on a system upgraded from FBSD5.4R to FBSD6.3-p3
did you rebuild apache first after doing the upgrade? -- From: FreeBSD Daemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2008 6:13 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: php5 on a system upgraded from FBSD5.4R to FBSD6.3-p3 dear list, i just upgraded my system from 5.4R to 6.3-p3 when i now try to install php5 w/ apache integration (apache module) i get the following error when i try to start apache20: Cannot load /usr/local/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so into server: /usr/local/libexec/apache2/libphp5.so: Undefined symbol __res_ninit I googled but neither of the solution provided by the net community works ... i would really appreciate help. Thanks in advance! Zheyu ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC
Date: Wed, 1 Oct 2008 14:18:10 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Questions drivers for VGA and NIC Hi BSD folks! I installed FreeBSD 7 Release - amd64. I have ATI Radeon HD2600 pro VGA card but ATI is sucks for supporting driver for Linux or FreeBSD! So, I'm considering to replace the dam ATI card with NVIDIA Geforce. I don't wanna play 3D games on FreeBSD, so just cheap Geforce card would be enough, but it should support 1920x1200 resolution. I wonder if what Geforce model is supported by the FreeBSD 7R - amd64. Anybody can recommend? You trying to use the ATI driver or the RadeonHD driver? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
My unqualified host name
Dunno about the OP, but my FreeBSD machines do not have nor need valid FQDNs because they sit behind a NAT firewall (and therefore do not have externally-identifiable IP addresses). I want hostname to simply return the unqualified host name (say, foo), not foo.com nor foo.uucp nor even foo.bogus. I don't need sendmail to handle anything but purely local traffic, such as the periodic reports to root, and it's just fine for it to identify itself simply as foo. We were able to do things like this back in the days of SunOS 4, so why should it be difficult to accomplish today? Indeed, why should it not be the default mode of operation when hostname returns an unqualified name? Common practice to handle naming was to use computer.network.TLD such as workstation1.freebsd.org for the internet facing side of your network. Internal, if you were not running a split-horizon DNS setup would be to use network.local or simply local for the effect of workstation1.freebsd.local or workstation1.local. therefore if for some strange reason it ever did get the FQDN outside the local network, nothing would be able to resolve it to make it an issue since there is no TLD of .Local on the internet but could easily be added to an internal DNS server for personal use. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel upgrades
-- From: Joe Tseng [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, September 19, 2008 7:03 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: kernel upgrades I'm still new to FreeBSD (coming from CentOS/Ubuntu) so this might be something totally obvious to others... I know I can update ports by using portsnap fetch/extract/update - does this update the kernel source as well? How do I apply this new code? - Joe If you are using the GENERIC kernel, just use freebsd-update to get any updates for the OS. otherwise I would use CVS to update kernel source code. can get the STABLE branch then ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Firefox won't start
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:21:11 -0400 Subject: Firefox won't start I recently did a ports update and after a bit of effort I got firefox3 to compile with no errors. But now when I either select Firefox from the menu or start it from a terminal window nothing happens. Firefox does not start and there's no indication of any problems. When I use ps to see if it's hung I see nothing. Ideas? what command are you using to start firefox 3? I just installed it for first time and found you have to use the command firefox3 to get it to run -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3
-- From: perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 5:41 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3 Hi people. Well I have time locking for a solution for this problem I have, I have googling around and have not found a solution, I have 2 serves running FreeBSD 6.1/6.2, normally I update my ports tree each day, but I already stop doing that because I still cannot fix the problems with the commmand: portsdb -Uu, each time I run that command on both servers I receive this error: Updating the ports index ... Generating INDEX.tmp - please wait..Makefile, line 56: Could not find bsd.port.options.mk make: fatal errors encountered -- cannot continue === sysutils/apcupsd failed *** Error code 1 CVSUP your tree to straighten it out. I noticed that portsnap will not fix damaged/missing files. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3
-- From: perikillo [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2008 7:25 PM To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with portsdb -Uu on FreeBSD 6.3 http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/portsnap.html I supposes that portsnap extract have to run just once, latter u have to just run portsnap fetch portsnap update? Sean, u say that I better mix cvsup + portsnap? This is normal? This would not broke my tree? Right now I already run cvsup and is running portsdb -Uu, I will let u know what happend, thanks!!! I've never fully trusted portsnap. I do run portsnap fetch before every portupgrade but I always follow it up with CVSUP and I usually find some more files that get changed anyway. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open-vm-tools broken?
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From: Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, September 06, 2008 8:27 AM
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Open-vm-tools broken?
Hmm, getting this error:
Vmware: {root} % make
=== open-vm-tools-102166_2 is marked as broken: leaves files behind on
deinstall.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/emulators/open-vm-tools.
Vmware: {root} %
Cute. I still like to run the open-vm-tools, though. Anyone know which
other
version/toolset I should run then?
If you remove the BROKEN line from the Makefile, it will compile just fine.
I personally think marking a package as broken because of an issue like
files left behind is dumb. Post a message to the user these files were left
behind, delete them manually at least.
-Sean
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RE: portsnap in cron and firewall
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:14:02 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: portsnap in cron and firewall Hi all I've some servers for internal use. On those servers I have some pf (or ipfw) rule to deny any connection from inside to outside. Long time ago when ports tree is update with cvs, I'm using something like pf command to open inside -- outside connection cvsup portupgrade --fetch-only --all pf command to close inside -- outside connection But now with portsnap cron (that's mean random sleep) I don't known when the system try to connect outside. Do you have any idea how can I make my update using portsnap (I known I can use cvsup) in a crontab with my network config ? portsnap cron just randomizes the time to download unlike portsnap fetch which says to do it right now. cron was added to help randomize the time so everyone syncing at midnight UTC arent all hitting at exact same time.___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: portsnap in cron and firewall
Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 17:43:44 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portsnap in cron and firewall Le 05/09/2008 à 11:33:59-0400, Sean Cavanaugh a écrit Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 16:14:02 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: portsnap in cron and firewall Hi all I've some servers for internal use. On those servers I have some pf (or ipfw) rule to deny any connection from inside to outside. Long time ago when ports tree is update with cvs, I'm using something like pf command to open inside -- outside connection cvsup portupgrade --fetch-only --all pf command to close inside -- outside connection But now with portsnap cron (that's mean random sleep) I don't known when the system try to connect outside. Do you have any idea how can I make my update using portsnap (I known I can use cvsup) in a crontab with my network config ? portsnap cron just randomizes the time to download unlike portsnap fetch which says to do it right now. cron was added to help randomize the time so everyone syncing at midnight UTC arent all hitting at exact same time. Yes I known. That's why I'm asking you how can I make portsnap through the cron and opening firewall just before he going to make the connection. Of course I can hack the portsnap to make he don't try to see if it's fork by cron or not. But it's not a good idea IMHO, what's happen if all person do that ? I think you misread what i was saying. Inside your cron job use portsnap fetch instead of portsnap cron. that way it will fetch exactly when you run the cron job, without the randomized delay. most likely a shell script that would have the following: 1)open pf 2)portsnap fetch 3)portsnap update (- you were missing this important step also) 4)portupgrade --fetch-only --all 5)close pf___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: For this hardware amd64, ia64 or i386 to install?
Considering the amount of RAM in the box, AMD64 would prob be best for your needs. If you need 32-bit software or features go with i386 instead but you wont have access to all the RAM ia64 is for Itanium-based systems only Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 23:39:07 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Subject: For this hardware amd64, ia64 or i386 to install? Hi guys For following hardware, I am wonderting that which Freebsd amd64, ia64 or i386 to install? Hardware: Dell PowerEdge 2950 III having 2 x CPU 3,0 GHz Intel Xeon L5450 Quad-Core 2x6MB cache WITH 16 GB RAM. Tools: 1. FreeBSD 7 Production Release 2. Apache 2.2.9 3. MySQL 5.1.26 4. PHP 5.2.6 -- Thanks! BR / vj ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7?
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:05:06 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Subject: Re: Is it possible to run i386 only, on a amd64 freebsd 7? Christopher Joyner wrote: Is there some way of doing that? Running i386 software on amd64 machine? Yes. FreeBSD/amd64 contains a compatibility facility for i386 binaries. It should just work out of the box, unless disabled explicitly. Best regards Oliver he was asking about ports that are labled as i386 only___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Video streaming with freeBSD
-- From: Sam Fourman Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:22 PM To: Drew Tomlinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Video streaming with freeBSD If the main purpose of your box is to be a PVR, I suggest going with a Linux distribution and using MythTV (http://www.mythtv.org). While I am a fan of FreeBSD as a web/mail/etc. server, it did not meet my needs when attempting to build a PVR. I found the Gentoo Linux distribution most comfortable for me because it uses a portage system similar to the ports system of FreeBSD. Others I tried were package based and didn't always support my hardware. I would like to try and put together the most functional FreeBSD based PVR system possible, even if it does have less functionality than it's Linux counterpart. does anyone have a recipe for a working FreeBSD based PVR? if not post Ideas for software / configurations / Hardware, and I will l make a web page out of it. install multimedia/MythTV from ports tree. doubt you will find a better PVR program. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreePbx
freepbx is based on asterisk which is in ports with better web based administration pages. -- From: orv [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, August 03, 2008 7:13 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreePbx Hi, Does anyone have a recipe for installing freepbx on FreeBSD 6-3 stable. There does not seem to be a port for it and googling does not reveal anything helpfull so far. I found the following which mentions a port however the port is no longer around. http://aussievoip.com/wiki/index.php?page=freePBX-FreeBSD. Thanks ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 7.0 Hardware Requirement.
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 07:43:07 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org CC: Subject: FreeBSD 7.0 Hardware Requirement. Hello I've tried to find hardware requirement for FreeBSC 7.0 but I couldn't found that. Can you please send me the hardware requirement? I have laptop(celeron 1.4, 256 ram) so Can you suggest me which verson is suitable for my hardware. Thanks and Regards, Ketan. ___ http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: ADSL Lease Lines
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 17:08:24 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ADSL Lease Lines QUESTION Would it be possible to employ some FreeBSD wizardry to affectively bond the lease line with the ADSL connection? I know this can be done through Cisco routers but again budgetary issues are the limiting factor. Any help will be gratefully received. TIA Nikki take a look at pfSense.com. its based on FreeBSD and most users find it as reliable as an enterprise level router. -Sean___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problem with pf, which is not doing NAT
-- From: assetburned [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2008 12:37 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Problem with pf, which is not doing NAT Hi, I try to use a FreeBSD machine as a gateway with 2 LAN, one WAN connection and a local Squid. if yer just trying to have a firewall with squid, take a look at pfSense.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Upgrade and change distro?
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 15:55:58 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: Subject: Upgrade and change distro? I have a dual core Intel server running 6.1 RELEASE i386. I want to update it to 7.0 RELEASE. Can I also switch to the AMD release at the same time? (It's my understanding that all dual core processors should be running AMD not i386.) If so, do I simply point to the GENERIC kernconf under AMD? Any gotchas? Paul Schmehl If it isn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. AMD64 is for 64-bit chips from AMD and Intel. whether it is multi-core is beside. run i386 still if you want/need 32-bit operating system. there are some features and programs that will NOT work with AMD64. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: CPUs again.
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:07:02 +0300 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPUs again. On Fri, 27 Jun 2008 14:54:31 -0400 Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 64 bit Celerons, and 64 bit Xenons? amd64 and ia64 (assuming you're referring to Xeon architecture, and not Xenon gas :P) amd64 for both CPU's to run full 64-bit version, otherwise i386 for 32-bit mode. ia64 is for Itanium CPU's only. Note that some features and ports are only available with i386. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: CPUs again.
-- From: Grant Peel [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 4:08 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: CPUs again. So, Given the output below, is there any real benifit to compiling a custom kernel with an amd64 machine type (performance gains?), and given that this server will be a Web/Email/Mysql server? you can trim out all the unused drivers to slim your kernel down, or there may be other kernel options you want to use that are not in the GENERIC kernel. but for what you are using it for, there's no harm in just staying with the GENERIC kernel. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: URGENT: Need help rebuilding iir RAID5 array with failed drive
Most GOOD RAID cards will let you rebuild an array from the card BIOS outside the OS. Some will even do it automatically, if you replace the failed drive, while the system is fully up and running (of course it slaughters your drive access speed while it rebuilds the data on the new drive) If your RAID card can only interact with the drives from within an OS, I would highly suggest getting a better RAID card to save you trouble in the future. the fact that you have the array as RAID 5 shows that you haven't lost any data and should not get any data errors as far as the OS can see. -Sean Cavanaugh Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:49:19 -0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org CC: Subject: URGENT: Need help rebuilding iir RAID5 array with failed drive Hello, First off sorry for the cross-post. I typically don't do this but this is an important question, so please bear with me. I'm just trying to get more eyes on the subject so I can (maybe) get a reply quicker... I'm running 8-CURRENT on my machine and it appears that one of the disks in my RAID5 array has taken a nose dive (BIOS recognizes that it exists, but Intel Matrix Manager claims that the disk is an Offline Member). After doing some reading it appears that it's kaput, so I need to get a replacement disk to fix this one... That aside, I need to determine how to rebuild the array in a Unix environment because Intel only provides instructions for how to use their Windows matrix manager. If anyone can point me to some links or provide me with some pointers on how to correct this issue, I'd owe you a lot; in fact the next time you come by Santa Cruz, CA I'll gladly treat you to some beers or something else you might want :)... Linux solutions (if there isn't a proper one for FreeBSD) are valid, as long as the core data remains uncorrupted and I can do what I need to from a LiveCD. I'm just scared to boot up OS and have it do some irrevocable operation like fsck -y and assume parity errors are ok or something along those lines (I don't remember if I set rc.conf to fsck -y and I know I can change that from single-user mode, but I want to play things conservatively if at all possible) :\... Filesystem is UFS2 with softupdates of course. Point proven that I need to backup my data more often :(... TIA, -Garrett PS If replying on the questions@ list, please CC me as I'm not subscribed to that list. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Problems upgrading GNUTLS 2.2.2 to 2.4.0
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:55:08 -0500 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Problems upgrading GNUTLS 2.2.2 to 2.4.0 Schiz0 wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Doug Poland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm having issues upgrading GNUTLS 2.2.2 to 2.4.0. The box in questions is running 7.0-STABLE i386. The error message I'm receiving is... === Configuring for gnutls-2.4.0 aclocal.m4:16: warning: this file was generated for autoconf 2.62. You have another version of autoconf. It may work, but is not guaranteed to. If you have problems, you may need to regenerate the build system entirely. To do so, use the procedure documented by the package, typically `autoreconf'. configure.in:28: version mismatch. This is Automake 1.10, configure.in:28: but the definition used by this AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE configure.in:28: comes from Automake 1.10.1. You should recreate configure.in:28: aclocal.m4 with aclocal and run automake again. *** Error code 63 Stop in /usr/ports/security/gnutls. I've installed devel/autoconf-2.62 but it makes no difference. I've googled and tried lots of things to get autoconf to run but to no avail. Any suggestions are appreciated. -- Regards, DougThis isn't a solution, just an issue I had too.When I upgraded from 2.2.5 to 2.4.0, I also got that message about a version mis-match for Automake. However, this did not stop the build process, and it installed successfully. Interesting... I'm unable to continue the build process because of the error code. How did you get around it? -- Regards, Doug My best guess would be to upgrade your automake to a version that's at least 1.10.1 like the message says which so happens to be the version that's in ports right now. upgrading autoconf prob wouldn't be bad either. -Sean___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Windows Unix volunteers
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 18:17:19 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Windows Unix volunteers Hello, What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. As a FreeBSD fan, I'd love to see it in ports. Can anyone recommend forums where to look for people interested in making such programme available for UNIX desktops? Many thanks! there are a few programs like this already. some people even just use cron jobs with a script to force a background change to a random image every X minutes. graphics/chbg is a nice start. just do a google search or search freebsd.org/ports for background and you will see a lot of responses. -Sean___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Windows Unix volunteers
Resending since my last email got horribly garbled up. there are a few programs like this already. some people even just use cron jobs with a script to force a background change to a random image every X minutes.graphics/chbg is a nice start. just do a google search or search freebsd.org/ports for background and you will see a lot of responses.-Sean___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Windows Unix volunteers
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:44:38 +0200 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Windows Unix volunteers Hi all, N. Raghavendra: At 2008-06-26T18:17:19+02:00, Zbigniew Szalbot wrote:What is a good place to look for volunteers who would like to modify Windows source code for an open source software. We have a programme that changes wallpapers on your desktop but it is only available for Windows. As a FreeBSD fan, I'd love to see it in ports.I guess you have already checked out graphics/chbg, and perhaps some other similar ports, before asking that question. Yes, I have. I am not really looking for such software but for a forum where people who do UNIX can be found. FYI - our little software is special one in that it changes backgrounds with Bible's life words (www.lcwords.com/en/desktoplive.html). Anyway, I am not trying to advertise it here, especially that it is for Windows. Just trying to find out where to look for people who could be interested in porting it into UNIX using our Windows source code, if they find it helpful. I hope I am not offending anyone. Warm regards, So you are trying to port YOUR code to BSD. Your original post made it sound like you found a program and just wanted to see same functionality in BSD. There is an opensource program similar to yours but it is designed for use with webshots and flickr but im sure could very easily be modified to connect with your website. http://www.webilder.org/ -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Making World For amd64
-- From: Tim Daneliuk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:51 PM To: Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Making World For amd64 Kris Kennaway wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: Kris Kennaway wrote: Tim Daneliuk wrote: Is there anything special one has to do when doing a make world intended for 64-bit FreeBSD or is it sufficient to build the 64-bit kernel and make world as everywhere else? The same as everywhere else. Kris So, I take it that this means that all the userspace programs, ports, packages, utilities, etc. do *not* take advantage of the 64-bit extensions. That is, only the kernel gets the benefit of the wider word. Is that correct? No, everything is 100% native. Kris OK, these may be really stupid questions but: 1) How does make world know whether to build 32-bit or 64-bit binaries? 2) Can a binary from a 32-bit FreeBSD system be run unmodified on the 64-bit system? 3) If I reboot with 32-bit or 64-bit kernels, does the system magically somehow make the userland stuff work natively at the word width? If so, how? TIA, I take this to mean you have an i386 install and want to compile amd64 on it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: appropriate 64 bit version?
The version is called amd64 because AMD published their spec first. (FYI) the thing I have actually wondered is why i386 and amd64 are used as the naming convention instead of x86 and x86-64 or x64 -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: vmware timekeeping
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 15:48:46 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: vmware timekeeping At 03:23 p.m. 06/06/2008, you wrote: I'm running FreeBSD 6.3-release as a guest on VMware ESX 3.0.2. My problem is that the clock keeps *gaining* time. I have the timesync option turned on in ESX's .vmx file, and I have hint.apic.0.disabled=1 in my FreeBSD guest's /boot/loader.conf. I used to have kern.hz=100 in loader.conf, but that caused the guest to gain time even faster. Does anyone have a good recipe for decent timekeeping in this config? Thanks. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello all. Here is something similar. Running 6.2 stable... but the clock lose around 6 hours each day JB The only good way of keeping time pretty set is to set up an NTP sync on the image to go off at decently constant rate (once every 3 hours or so). the vmware-tools will not synchronize the system clock. I heard of someone trying to change the clock in BSD to only use the hardware clock as VMWare can reset that but never heard anything beyond that. -Sean___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 12:15:44 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Freebsd-questions@freebsd.org CC: Subject: Upgrading Kernel on a Remote Server Hey, I recently ordered a FreeBSD server from a hosting company. This would be the first time I do not have physical access to a FreeBSD system. I'm looking for any hints/tricks/suggestions for managing and upgrading it safely (as in, not locking myself out or having boot errors). The host does not offer KVM/IP or serial port access. The host is installing 6.3-RELEASE. I'd like to upgrade to 7.0-RELEASE, as well as compile in some kernel options for various things. What's the best way to do this on a remote system, minimizing compiling a bad kernel and causing it not to boot? I wouldn't have access to single user mode or anything. Thanks for any suggestions/help/etc, ~Steve do you have control of the whole box? most places I know that have online hosting like that run you inside a jail as a VPS style system. to answer your original comments, I would say to contact their tech support department and see if you can coordinate with them to have it upgraded to 7.0. If they dont support it, then you are going to be on your own with the install and may have to have them reimage it if you get a bad install. Some places will be willing to do a local base install for your or at least help get over any hurdles with upgrading. -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Ports/Packages Philosophy
Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 07:53:37 -0600 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ports/Packages Philosophy On 5/6/08, Dsiuh Djsids [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am interested to know what some of your software installing/updating philosophies are regarding ports/packages on either a server or a home desktop. For example, how often do you update your software and when you do, do you run something like 'portupgrade -a' or individually take care of each piece of software? Upgrades...unless they're very pressing security issues that directly relate to the well-being of my server, I upgrade as rarely as possible. Upgrading things has a tendency to break stuff at the most inopportune time. Frankly, I'm not sure why everyone is so adamant about having the latest updates. If the program does what I require, I would rather have a more aged version which has been given time to get the bugs worked out. As far as building software, I do this as rarely as possible as well. Unless there is a specific functionality which requires a set of non-default compiler flags, I use packages. It makes no sense to waste time re-compiling the same program, with the same compiler options, for the same processor architecture as has already been done by countless others. For example, if you ran a lab of 300 identical computers, would you re-compile every program on each computer? Probably not. If I can get a pre-compiled binary from a reliable source, I'd rater do that, than sit around all day waiting for software to build in hopes of benefiting from a few custom build options. something to think about to is that the ports collection will be more current than packages. Example of this is GNOME 2.16 being listed in packages collection for a while after GNOME 2.18 came out. If you use a custom kernel, ports would be compiled to run a bit more optimized for your processor (i.e. 686) than the GENERIC kernel (486-586-686) but good coding of the program should not have this kind of reliance anyway. if you want the system up and running fast with known working versions, definitely stick with packages. if you want the latest software, use ports and keep them upgraded. its always a personal call. _ Get Free (PRODUCT) RED™ Emoticons, Winks and Display Pics. http://joinred.spaces.live.com?ocid=TXT_HMTG_prodredemoticons_052008___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Grand Omission from WebSite
-- From: Dave Woodruff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 07, 2008 7:47 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Grand Omission from WebSite Dear Mr. Questions: I have just spent about one-half hour browsing the website, looking for the list of package distributions, unsuccessfully. Perhaps the most dismaying was the page: http://www.freebsd.org/applications.html which contains a link self-described as packages collection which takes you to the OS distribution page, unrelated to packages. Entering package or packages into the (sic) search engine each yield a null result. It is a crying shame that one of the most unique and fruitful features of my favorite operating system should be so obfuscated. Thanks, \DaveW -- Dave Woodruff - System Admn - RadOnc Computer Support Vox: 415/353-9818 Fax: 415/353-9883 Pgr: 415/443-2896 --- University of California, San Francisco, Radiation Oncology --- 1600 Divisadero - Suite H-1031, San Francisco, CA 94143-1708 most people install from the ports collection if they have decent access and they are listed on the website. http://www.freebsd.org/ports/index.html -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports, src, etc. for 7.0-REL?
are you using 7.0-RELEASE--bootonly.iso or 7.0-RELEASE--Disc1.iso the later has the files on it and can be installed without any network connection at all. -Sean -- From: William Bulley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 4:42 PM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: where are base, info, kernels, dict, doc, games, manpages, ports,src, etc. for 7.0-REL? I can't seem to find the distributions listed in the Subject: line on any of the 7.0-RELEASE ISO images. What am I missing? I know the 7.0-RELEASE announcement says the bootable ISO can be used along with FTP to finish the install, but I can't get FTP (or passive FTP, for that matter) to work as it has in the past. I am behind a m0n0wall firewall, but I believe I have used passive FTP in the past to get around that problem. I even opened up the firewall with a pass all rule, but it still didn't work. It looked like it could not resolve ftp.freebsd.org or ftp9.freebsd.org since it hung there trying to connect with... until it gave up. I tried several different (known good) DNS server IP addresses, but nothing worked. Then I went looking for the distributions in the ISO images. Not finding them there either has really had a negative impact on my install today, sigh... :-( Regards, web... -- William Bulley Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: RAM not recognized
-- From: Paul A. Procacci [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 03, 2008 7:45 PM To: Cesar Amaya [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RAM not recognized Cesar Amaya wrote: Hello every one, I have installed FreeBSD-7.0_RELEASE on Dell Power Edge 1950 Quad Core and 4GB of RAM. The problem is that FreeBSD does not recognize all of the RAM. This is part of the dmesg. # dmesg CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5420 @ 2.50GHz (2496.28-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x10676 Stepping = 6 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0xce3bdSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA,b19 AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF Cores per package: 4 real memory = 3484745728 (3323 MB) avail memory = 3405631488 (3247 MB) ACPI APIC Table: DELL PE_SC3 FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 4 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 cpu2 (AP): APIC ID: 2 cpu3 (AP): APIC ID: 3 ioapic0: Changing APIC ID to 4 ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard Can anyone give me some light in this issue? Thank you very much!!! ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, se nd any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Forgot to CC list This is not a problem of FreeBSD but of i386/x86 architecture which max memory limit is 4GB i theory and 3-3.5GB in practice, you can use PAE to use 36bit addressing (instead of default 32bit) for memory to get full 4GB on i386 but you will not be able to have loadable kernel modules for example, other sollution for this is using amd64/64bit FreeBSD, where you will have full 4GB and even more without any problems. for the 4 gig limit, you have to take in account that the limit is for ALL addressable memory space in the computer, this includes video card memory as well as resources necessary to run system level stuff like your IDE or SCSI controller and any extra firmware may be present on your system. if you want to use more than 3 gigs of ram, you HAVE to run AMD64/x64 version of your operating system (even windows would have same exact issue). -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: FreeBSD 6.2-REL, system lockup, recovers when keyboard pressed
You look at upgrading to 6.3-REL or 7.0-REL? -Sean Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 08:47:18 +1100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.2-REL, system lockup, recovers when keyboard pressed Sorry all, I typo'd -- the system is 6.2-REL, not 6.0-REL. Does that make the answer any clearer? (maybe it's fresher in people's minds?) Is confidence high that an update to 6.2-STABLE would sort this out? (I'd really love a bug fix reference). cheers, Dale On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dale Shaw wrote: Hi all, [...] I have a vanilla 6.2-RELEASE system running a bunch of network management type tools like RANCID, nfcapd, cacti and so on. After a few days of normal operation, the system (locked away in a data centre) falls off the network. Can't SSH to it, can't ping it. No ARP -- gone! I have no OOB access to this machine (it's a test box/play pen). I have a vague memory of something like this but cannot point to a specific commit that resolved it. Kris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools)
which version of the guest tool should I be installing for VMWare Server 1.0.4? guestd5 and guestd6 both core dump. -Sean -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:56 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools) Barry Byrne wrote: I've had no problem installing the tools via the ports on 7.0 release on ESX server 3.0.1. ... cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6/ make clean install reboot. I was thinking about the ports. How does the ports version compare to the official coming with the VMware? Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMwaretools)
scratch that, guestd6 worked fine after make clearing it. bad download I guess. -Sean -- From: Sean Cavanaugh [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMwaretools) which version of the guest tool should I be installing for VMWare Server 1.0.4? guestd5 and guestd6 both core dump. -Sean -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 28, 2008 9:56 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.0 and VMware tools (was Re: FreeBSD 7RC2 and VMware tools) Barry Byrne wrote: I've had no problem installing the tools via the ports on 7.0 release on ESX server 3.0.1. ... cd /usr/ports/emulators/vmware-guestd6/ make clean install reboot. I was thinking about the ports. How does the ports version compare to the official coming with the VMware? Iv ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD 7.x compatible Gigabit network card
I personally use Netgear GA311 gigabit cards with no issue in my systems. -Sean -- From: Unga [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2008 9:11 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 7.x compatible Gigabit network card Hi all I want to buy a FreeBSD 7.x compatible wired Gigabit (10/100/1000Mbps) PCI-based network card. Please let me know what cards are recommended and work successfully with FreeBSD 7.x. Many thanks in advance. Kind regards Unga Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. http://tools.search.yahoo.com/newsearch/category.php?category=shopping ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Open source quiry
most likely it uses a stripped down version of common open source programs with just configuration settings. if that's the case, there's nothing for them to release to the public domain. -Sean -- From: Daniel Jennings [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 25, 2008 7:33 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Open source quiry Hello, Recently I was told that 2wire dsl gateways http://www.2wire.com use a variant of rt FreeBSD. If this is true are they required to make the source code available to the public? And if so how does one go about getting the GPL source Thankfully Daniel ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP!!!!
not to sound condescending, but just download the ISO ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ the installer is very easy to walk through but if you need more help, the documentation is very nice. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/install.html -Sean From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:42:52 -0700 CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP Jerry, or Erich, I am wondering how I could Download the FreeBSD OS to a disk, so I could try and install it on the computers I am trying to get to work? Could you give me some pointers on the process?Ryan Jenkins P.O. Box 21138 P: 406 896-9900 F: 406 896-0045 C: 406 208-8193 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Statement: This e-mail contains confidential information which also may be privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not copy, use, disclose, or distribute the e-mail message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please advise the sender by replying to this message or by telephone and then promptly delete it. -Original Message- From: Jerry McAllister [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, February 18, 2008 5:59 PM To: Erich Dollansky Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Computers that us FreeBSD. HELP On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:48:28AM +0800, Erich Dollansky wrote: Hi,Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Toshiba plus all the PC built around standard components will do. If you would be a bit more specific about price, speed and function of the machine, we could help you better. Yes. Any servers from those vendors will work. Plus, there are a couple of companies that claim to produce systems expecially for running FreeBSD servers. Some are: http://www.freedomtc.com/ http://www.ixsystems.com/ http://www.ironsystems.com/index.asp They don't limit themselves to FreeBSD, but they claim support for it. jerry You might will have problems getting certain machines without operating system. ErichRyan Jenkins wrote: Hello, I currently have a Computer System that is based off the FreeBSD Operating System and I am trying to find a new supplier of hardware. Right now I am having a hard time finding a Computer Manufacture that can make a system that uses FreeBSD. I currently have found a product from MPC or Micron/Gateway that creates systems with no Operating System, but my programmers are having a hard time with getting the software loaded on the system. Can you please help me find a supplier that builds Desktop or All-in-One computers that will operate FreeBSD. Ryan Jenkins P.O. Box 21138 P: 406 896-9900 F: 406 896-0045 C: 406 208-8193 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Confidentiality Statement: This e-mail contains confidential information which also may be privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not copy, use, disclose, or distribute the e-mail message or any information contained in the message. If you have received this e-mail message in error, please advise the sender by replying to this message or by telephone and then promptly delete it. - ---___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Connect and share in new ways with Windows Live. http://www.windowslive.com/share.html?ocid=TXT_TAGHM_Wave2_sharelife_012008___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FreeBSD Linux distro
Easy way to describe the differences between UNIX, Linux and BSD http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants/bsd4linux/bsd4linux1.php -Sean ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
