ls time/date format from ftpd

2008-02-09 Thread Malcolm Kay
The default output from ls in a normal shell on my system is mode links owner group size month day time/year filename corresponding to LANG=C or en_US... For most other locales month and day are swapped, including mine { LANG=en_AU.ISO8859-1 }. When I access my account from another machine via

RE: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-09 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 08, 2008 10:53 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Some ideas for FreeBSD Swapping systems may have performed better when thrashing started

Re: pf.conf for variable interfaces

2008-02-09 Thread Erik Norgaard
Chad Perrin wrote: How about this: ext_ifs = { iwi0 bge0 } block in quick on ext_ifs all pass out quick on ext_ifs all keep state ... As long as you don't need statements like iwi0:network which you shouldn't on an endpoint, then I guess this will work. Thanks. That looks like the answer

mv, cp, and sgid on directories (was: cp -p)

2008-02-09 Thread Jonathan McKeown
I think you may be getting too deep into the detail. Think of the bigger picture: when I move a file, I don't expect that to change its ownership or permissions - it would surprise me if it did; when I make a copy of a file, I expect to own the copy - after all, what use is a private copy I

RE: Problems with WMP54G Wireless Adapter

2008-02-09 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
I am sorry Daniel, this is a known bug, see here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/109227 In src/sys/dev/ral/if_ral_pci.c is: static const struct ral_pci_ident ral_pci_ids[] = { { 0x1814, 0x0201, Ralink Technology RT2560 }, { 0x1814, 0x0301, Ralink Technology

Re: mv, cp, and sgid on directories (was: cp -p)

2008-02-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Jonathan McKeown wrote: The bit that still worries me in this discussion is the sgid bit (pun not intended, but I'm not going to delete it now!): as I understand it, creating a file has different behaviour on SYSV-derived systems and

JOSEF VESELY; www.freebsd.org access problem

2008-02-09 Thread Josef Vesely
Hi, I have problem access your web www.freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/ from couple of my real virtual computers (VMWARE + WIN XP) while I have no problem to access from other computers. From every computer I can access www.freebsd.cz http://www.freebsd.cz/ without any problem.

Re: Best practices for managing tweaked ports

2008-02-09 Thread Michaël Grünewald
Le 7 févr. 08 à 23:01, Mel a écrit : Hi, On Tuesday 05 February 2008 13:05:12 Michaël Grünewald wrote: I am seeking for a word in advice in how to automatically tweak some applications, possibly making packages for them. The current solution is: I have a post install shell script that

Re: inetd + few ip

2008-02-09 Thread Frank Shute
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 04:32:25PM +0200, Roman Otsaljuk wrote: how can I specify few ip-addresses inetd listen on? not all. or all except few? Have a look at hosts_access(5) and hosts_options(5). -- Frank Contact info: http://www.esperance-linux.co.uk/misc/contact.html

Re: pf.conf for variable interfaces

2008-02-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:38:22AM +0100, Erik Norgaard wrote: Chad Perrin wrote: How about this: ext_ifs = { iwi0 bge0 } block in quick on ext_ifs all pass out quick on ext_ifs all keep state ... As long as you don't need statements like iwi0:network which you shouldn't on an

Bad sector on a gstripe

2008-02-09 Thread Alban Hertroys
Hi all, I'm having trouble locating a bad sector on a gstriped file system. Smartd has been nagging about this single bad sector for months now, there don't appear to appear any new ones. It's about time I look into this... I got so far that I know the sector number in the partition

Re: JOSEF VESELY; www.freebsd.org access problem

2008-02-09 Thread Bruce Cran
Martin Solar wrote: I have problem access your web www.freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/ from couple of my real virtual computers (VMWARE + WIN XP) I have this problem only with Opera browser. Other browsers are working. Which browser are you using ? I think there might be an issue with

Re: OT: Whats wrong with gmail?

2008-02-09 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Feb 08, 2008 at 06:12:09PM -0700, Modulok wrote: I just cannot bring myself to trust anyone else for email. Running your own server on BSD or Linux is so bloody easy, if you're paranoid about email for archival, privacy, or other reasons, just run your own server. You have

should I change to multicore CPU??

2008-02-09 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi, I know that freebsd7 has huge improvement on multi-threading execution. I wonder if I upgrade to 7, would I feel it?? I now own a amd64/3400+, running 6.3. It's just personal use, download files, watch movies, etc. I guess it will be faster on multi-core when I run mencoder to encode movie,

Re: JOSEF VESELY; www.freebsd.org access problem

2008-02-09 Thread Martin Solar
I have problem access your web www.freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/ from couple of my real virtual computers (VMWARE + WIN XP) I have this problem only with Opera browser. Other browsers are working. Which browser are you using ? ___

Re: How do I get unicode support in python?

2008-02-09 Thread Eric Mesa
Message: 12 Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2008 16:06:50 +0100 From: Heiko Wundram (Beenic) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How do I get unicode support in python? 0: ordinal not in range(128) print u\xfa.encode(latin-1) ú HTH! -- Heiko Wundram Product Application Development

Re: JOSEF VESELY; www.freebsd.org access problem

2008-02-09 Thread Martin Solar
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 14:55:27 +, Bruce Cran wrote Martin Solar wrote: I have problem access your web www.freebsd.org http://www.freebsd.org/ from couple of my real virtual computers (VMWARE + WIN XP) I have this problem only with Opera browser. Other browsers are working.

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread John Almberg
Bon dia, Rui (my wife is Brazillian) That is t he case of economics. In the logic of freesoftware I want make programs to fill that vacuum. Well, some of it. What I want to do are economic model ba sed simulators. I could do it in a spreadsheet, but I would rather make a n ice

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:01:53AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: Bon dia, Rui (my wife is Brazillian) That is t he case of economics. In the logic of freesoftware I want make programs to fill that vacuum. Well, some of it. What I want to do are economic model ba sed simulators. I

libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution error, I can see that the new version of icu installed libicui18n.so.38. Is there a better way to fix

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread Peter Boosten
Quoting E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution error, I can see that the new version of icu installed

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread Josh Carroll
On Feb 9, 2008 12:17 PM, E. J. Cerejo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution error, I can see that the new version

openoffice.org-2.4.20080109 pkg working on 6.3

2008-02-09 Thread p9_gkvye
There have been comments about problems with openoffice freezing when saving or opening files. It appears to involve language/locale stuff. For me, the following seems to work with the 2.4 package (perhaps not with 2.3.1_1) on 6.3-RELEASE. 1. As root, edit /etc/login.conf to set your system

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 E. J. Cerejo wrote: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution error, I can see that the new

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Saturday 09 February 2008 12:29:16 Matthew Seaman wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution error, I can see

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 E. J. Cerejo wrote: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution error, I can

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-09 Thread RW
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:19:48 +0530 navneet Upadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After putting my script to /etc/rc.d , it gets executed at startup and the parameter passed to the script is *faststart .* *I want the same script to be executed when system shuts down , how can i do that.*

Fwd: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread John Almberg
Several reasons: - you will learn good habits - you will, by necessity, learn and object oriented approach - Squeak is a great learning tool, with excellent debugging tools Sounds like the main arguments that used to be made for learning Pascal. Might be good, but not subscribed to by

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 RW wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:19:48 +0530 navneet Upadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After putting my script to /etc/rc.d , it gets executed at startup and the parameter passed to the script is *faststart .* *I want the same

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread Matthew Seaman
E. J. Cerejo wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2008 12:29:16 Matthew Seaman wrote: E. J. Cerejo wrote: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

Re: Unlock /dev/dsp?

2008-02-09 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Andreas Davour wrote: I have begin to find it annoying that when I have a Firefox running with a page with a youtube link it it, I can't at the same time play a mp3 file with mplayer. When I try I get an error saying that /dev/dsp is busy. Is there a way to make it play me some music anyway?

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Peter Boosten
Quoting Shawn Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When you installed the tools, did they require X to be operational? I'm not planning on running X. Neither am I, so no X here. Peter -- http://www.boosten.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Shawn Barnhart
Peter Boosten wrote: In my /boot/loader.conf: kern.hz=100 I rebuilt the kernel with options HZ=100 and this seems to fix it -- ntpd sync'd immediately and the clock does not appear to drift. When you installed the tools, did they require X to be operational? I'm not planning on running

Re: Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Peter Boosten
Quoting Shawn Barnhart [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I know this is a major nuisance, but I can't remember how I dealt with it in the past. My most recent stab at using ntpd with minpoll 4 polling of a local ntp time source isn't working, the clock drift prevents any sync from happening (but I'll admit

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-09 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 RW wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:19:48 +0530 navneet Upadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After putting my script to /etc/rc.d , it gets executed at startup and the parameter passed to the script is *faststart .* *I

Clock stabilization in VMWare hosted machines?

2008-02-09 Thread Shawn Barnhart
I know this is a major nuisance, but I can't remember how I dealt with it in the past. My most recent stab at using ntpd with minpoll 4 polling of a local ntp time source isn't working, the clock drift prevents any sync from happening (but I'll admit not trying some of the more aggressive

Re: Unlock /dev/dsp?

2008-02-09 Thread Hugo Silva
Andreas Davour wrote: I have begin to find it annoying that when I have a Firefox running with a page with a youtube link it it, I can't at the same time play a mp3 file with mplayer. When I try I get an error saying that /dev/dsp is busy. Is there a way to make it play me some music anyway?

Re: Unlock /dev/dsp?

2008-02-09 Thread Dominic Fandrey
Andreas Davour wrote: I have begin to find it annoying that when I have a Firefox running with a page with a youtube link it it, I can't at the same time play a mp3 file with mplayer. When I try I get an error saying that /dev/dsp is busy. Is there a way to make it play me some music anyway?

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-09 Thread Tore Lund
Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Reason # 1 to be happy with Linux: It attracts all the morons who would otherwise fuck up FreeBSD? I do wish people would not be happy about missing users. Being rid of all the morons means that we are also rid of proper attention from companies like Adobe and Nvidia.

Re: should I change to multicore CPU??

2008-02-09 Thread Ivan Voras
Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi, I know that freebsd7 has huge improvement on multi-threading execution. I wonder if I upgrade to 7, would I feel it?? I now own a amd64/3400+, running 6.3. It's just personal use, download files, watch movies, etc. I guess it will be faster on multi-core when I run

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-09 Thread Joshua Isom
Here's an idea for FreeBSD that would be practical. Since having several partitions on the same disk is standard for FreeBSD and most Unixes, instead of dealing with running out of space on a partition, when you have gigs available on another, why not allow one partition to create an overflow

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-09 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 03:51:18PM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: Here's an idea for FreeBSD that would be practical. Since having several partitions on the same disk is standard for FreeBSD and most Unixes, instead of dealing with running out of space on a partition, when you have gigs

US ftp mirrors down?

2008-02-09 Thread James
Hi folks, I was just trying to csup the sources for releng_6_3 and had some issues. ftp10.us.freebsd.org was unlocateable, ftp11 didn't have src-all, a bunch of the lower numbered ones were all unresponsive. Could someone check that behaviour for me? Thanks James

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-09 Thread Joshua Isom
On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 03:51:18PM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: Here's an idea for FreeBSD that would be practical. Since having several partitions on the same disk is standard for FreeBSD and most Unixes, instead of dealing with running out

Re: US ftp mirrors down?

2008-02-09 Thread Kieran
Hi James, I just tried cvsuping from cvsup10.us.freebsd.org for releng_6_3 and it worked fine. I am assuming you had a typo below as you should not be cvsuping from an ftp. Best Regards, Kieran - Original Message - From: James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org Sent:

Re: US ftp mirrors down?

2008-02-09 Thread James
Kieran wrote: Hi James, I just tried cvsuping from cvsup10.us.freebsd.org for releng_6_3 and it worked fine. I am assuming you had a typo below as you should not be cvsuping from an ftp. Best Regards, Kieran No, I've always csupped from the ftp sites. Usually works just fine. Though

Re: US ftp mirrors down?

2008-02-09 Thread Predrag Punosevac
James wrote: Hi folks, I was just trying to csup the sources for releng_6_3 and had some issues. ftp10.us.freebsd.org was unlocateable, ftp11 didn't have src-all, a bunch of the lower numbered ones were all unresponsive. Could someone check that behaviour for me? Thanks James

DEVICE_POLLING IF_EM CPU usage

2008-02-09 Thread Daniel Dias Gonçalves
Hi, I activated polling in 8 interfaces em0... em7 (ifconfig em* polling) to carry through performance tests, when activating, it had a significant reduction of CPU usage, load average measured of 0,50, 0,69, 0,52 for 0,43, 0,39, 0,21 and the CPU usage (SNMP Graphic) measured of 35% for 5%.

hundreds of duplicate messages from mailserver...

2008-02-09 Thread Gary Kline
Hi People, I wrote to the KDE list about Kmail endlessly updating itself and adding and bunches of messages to my INBOX on my mailserver. Someone responded that it was probably not a KMail problem, but a server problem. That seems probably

projectm questions

2008-02-09 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hello Sorry for the long post, this is my first try at installing from source and I'm not sure how much info I need to give. I'm trying to get projectm (http://projectm.sourceforge.net/) working on FreeBSD. First step is install libprojectm. The INSTALL file said install glew, ftgl and cmake

gicu, gimp...

2008-02-09 Thread Mitja
Hi! After update to ICU 3.8.1 there were some problem but after rebuilt of glib everything works okay again. Today I tried to update GIMP and there are again problem with ICU, need to be version 3.6: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by

Re: gicu, gimp...

2008-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 09/02/2008, Mitja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! After update to ICU 3.8.1 there were some problem but after rebuilt of glib everything works okay again. Today I tried to update GIMP and there are again problem with ICU, need to be version 3.6: /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object

7.0 RC2

2008-02-09 Thread Chris
I see that the ISO is there! -- Best regards, Chris Han Solo: Not a bad bit of rescuing, huh? You know, sometimes I amaze even myself. Princess Leia: That doesn't sound too hard. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Some ideas for FreeBSD

2008-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 09/02/2008, Joshua Isom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Feb 9, 2008, at 4:01 PM, Jerry McAllister wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 03:51:18PM -0600, Joshua Isom wrote: Here's an idea for FreeBSD that would be practical. Since having several partitions on the same disk is standard for

Re: script to be executed on system startup.

2008-02-09 Thread RW
On Sat, 09 Feb 2008 18:22:39 + Matthew Seaman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 RW wrote: On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 19:19:48 +0530 navneet Upadhyay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, After putting my script to /etc/rc.d , it gets executed at

Re: 7.0 RC2

2008-02-09 Thread User Ota
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 08:13:27PM -0600, Chris wrote: I see that the ISO is there! Not updated on the site yet! :P Wonder what's new in this RC release, gonna test it in vmware and maybe qemu :D ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: projectm questions

2008-02-09 Thread perryh
Linking CXX shared library libprojectM.so /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lGLEW *** Error code 1 ... After a bit of poking around I found ln -s /usr/local/lib/libGLEW.a /usr/lib/libGLEW.a fixed it. I also had to do ln -s /usr/local/lib/libftgl.a /usr/lib/libftgl.a ln -s

rmuser problem

2008-02-09 Thread Lubomir Matousek
Dear list, I have the following problem when using rmuser (freebsd 6.2) -- rmuser -v hana Matching password entry: hana:*:1091:1092::0:0:/usr/home/hana:/usr/sbin/nologin Is this the entry you wish to remove? yes Remove user's home directory (/usr/home/hanka)? yes Removing crontab for

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:01:53AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: I'd suggest looking into a real object oriented language, rather than a systems programming language like C, or a glue language like Perl. I personally think Smalltalk is a great language for beginners, particularly the Squeak

Re: Unlock /dev/dsp?

2008-02-09 Thread Ian Smith
On Sat, 9 Feb 2008 20:17:48 +0100 (CET) Andreas Davour [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have begin to find it annoying that when I have a Firefox running with a page with a youtube link it it, I can't at the same time play a mp3 file with mplayer. When I try I get an error saying that /dev/dsp

rc.d scripts not being run at shutdown.

2008-02-09 Thread RW
Afer putting in some extra logging to check something, I've just noticed that my rc.d scripts are not being run at shutdown. By way of confirmation, my entropy file, which is written out by an rc.d script, has not been written to for a week (I shut-down most nights). I don't recall doing

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread E. J. Cerejo
On Saturday 09 February 2008 13:02:58 Dominic Fandrey wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 E. J. Cerejo wrote: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared

PF firewall NAT and Windows IPSEC tunnel

2008-02-09 Thread Nerius Landys
Howdy folks. I have several computers behind a FreeBSD router (NAT 192.168.0.x using OpenBSD's PF) . One of those computers is a Windows machine which is using software called Cisco Systems VPN Client to connect to some other computers outside of our internal network. Our connection to the

Re: Three wishes of a wannabe developer

2008-02-09 Thread User Ota
On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 09:12:40PM -0700, cpghost wrote: On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 11:01:53AM -0500, John Almberg wrote: I'd suggest looking into a real object oriented language, rather than a systems programming language like C, or a glue language like Perl. I personally think Smalltalk is

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-01-20 - 2008-02-09

2008-02-09 Thread Dan Langille
The FreeBSD Diary contains a large number of practical examples and how-to guides. This message is posted weekly to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org with the aim of letting people know what's available on the website. Before you post a question here it might be a good idea to first search the

Re: US ftp mirrors down?

2008-02-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 09/02/2008, James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kieran wrote: Hi James, I just tried cvsuping from cvsup10.us.freebsd.org for releng_6_3 and it worked fine. I am assuming you had a typo below as you should not be cvsuping from an ftp. No, I've always csupped from the ftp sites. Usually

Re: libicui18n.so.36 not found, required by evolution

2008-02-09 Thread Dominic Fandrey
E. J. Cerejo wrote: On Saturday 09 February 2008 13:02:58 Dominic Fandrey wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 E. J. Cerejo wrote: Running FBSD 6.3 and after updating the ports where icu was one of the ports to be updated I'm getting the