Re: setting X11BASE

2008-02-23 Thread perryh
LOCALBASE is /usr/local unless you've changed it (but then you would already know what it was if you had.) You can find its value in /usr/ports/Mk/ grep LOCALBASE?= /usr/ports/Mk/* /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk:LOCALBASE?= /usr/local Aha! In case it matters, I have not upgraded

Re: setting X11BASE

2008-02-23 Thread perryh
* What is the value of LOCALBASE? I'm not finding any definition, or other reference, in /etc/make.conf. Just set it to ${LOCALBASE} verbatim. Not what you think is the value of the variable LOCALBASE but the word ${LOCALBASE}. Academic interest :) I'm finding it especially interesting

Re: setting X11BASE

2008-02-23 Thread Dominic Fandrey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * What is the value of LOCALBASE? I'm not finding any definition, or other reference, in /etc/make.conf. Just set it to ${LOCALBASE} verbatim. Not what you think is the value of the variable LOCALBASE but the word ${LOCALBASE}. Academic interest :) I'm finding it

Re: MP3/MP4

2008-02-23 Thread G Grace
Dear Customer, We are pleased to get to know that you are presently on the market for MP4 other digital products, and as the *largest specialized OEM manufacturer of MP4/GPS/DPF and other digital products *and exporter for these products in China, we sincerely hope to establish business

Re: FreeBSD diskless workstation and over the network installation via PXE

2008-02-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
vincenzo romero wrote: Hello, Am new to FreeBSD and relatively new to linux; I have a CentOS 5.1 PXE/tftpd/dhcpd server; I'd like it to be the build/PXE server where a bunch of 1U clients could PXE boot and run: 1. diskless over NFS-Root In googling, seems like there is a clone script that

duplicate message removal

2008-02-23 Thread Robin Becker
We have a bunch of FreeBSD 6.x servers which we administer remotely. As part of that we get the normal root job mails emailed to a mailing list which the admins(mostly me) can inspect at leisure and also use for historical purposes. Trouble is many of the emails get huge because of repeated

Re: setting X11BASE

2008-02-23 Thread Mel
On Saturday 23 February 2008 09:01:26 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * What is the value of LOCALBASE? I'm not finding any definition, or other reference, in /etc/make.conf. Just set it to ${LOCALBASE} verbatim. Not what you think is the value of the variable LOCALBASE but the word

Re: duplicate message removal

2008-02-23 Thread Mel
On Saturday 23 February 2008 11:32:41 Robin Becker wrote: Trouble is many of the emails get huge because of repeated messages typically stuff like xxx.yyy.com login failures: Feb 22 20:07:54 app3 sshd[56886]: reverse mapping checking getaddrinfo for 216-194-26-66.ny.ny.metconnect.net failed

6.3 DHCP and static_routes

2008-02-23 Thread Andrea Venturoli
Hello. This is part of my rc.conf: ifconfig_vr0=DHCP static_routes=a b c route_a=192.168.101.0/24 xxx route_b=192.168.103.0/24 yyy route_c=192.168.106.0/24 xxx This used to work fine with 6.2, with the default route set up by the DHCP servers. After I upgraded to 6.3, I get no default route

gmirror on slice

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello people, I'm trying to set up a gmirror on two slices, but I am stuck somewhere. I am unable to find out what is wrong. Here's what I have done so far: I have 2 disks in the box. I have created 2 slices on both of them (ad{4,6}s1 and ad{4,6}s2) through sysinstall. (btw,

My Rebuild Problem

2008-02-23 Thread tonylabarbara
Now I get this when I try and log on: no /boot/loader All I want to do is rebuild the silly FBSD! Again, I fell into this silly loop when I tried to rebuild: -- Select Drive -- FDISK Partition Editor (Q) -- Install Boot Manager and it just goes round, and round, and round. Can I just wipe

Re: gmirror on slice

2008-02-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Now I want to initialize gmirror on slice 1: ha-db1# gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad4s1 gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1: Operation not permitted. ha-db1# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 you try to make a mirror on used slice or some partition of that

Re: Re: tape splitter

2008-02-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
2. Outputs chunks in specified directory. You can configure it to write directly to tape, but it's not the best solution. 3. Can be configured to write only N chunks and after that wait for SIGUSR1 to write next. 4. Can be configured to write MD5-digest of every piece in separate file. I use

Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 6.3 onto a new machine. I cvsup'd ('src-all' and 'ports-all', RELENG_6_3). I then set some /etc/make.conf parameters (CPUTYPE=c3, CFLAGS= -O2 -pipe, COPTFLAGS= -O -pipe), rebuilt both world and kernel (no changes were made to the kernel file GENERIC), and installed

Outsourcing Your Book Editing Jobs

2008-02-23 Thread www . mrwebedit . com
** *Dear Sir / Madam, * *We are an on-line service provider for all *journalism and publishing related activities - original articles, ghost writing, editing, magazine management etc. Kindly *visit us at:* * * *www.mrwebedit.com* Reliability, maintaining confidentiality and strict

Apache-2.0+PHP5 does not like MySQL-5.x ...

2008-02-23 Thread Forrest Aldrich
After a long process of figuring out what went wrong, httpd was using a ton of resources when it received a HUP signal (log rotation at midnight). Subsequently, php -v was dumping core things pointed to mysqli.so. Long story short, I downgraded to mysql-4.10, recompiled php5 and

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Mel
On Saturday 23 February 2008 17:11:41 Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: Hi, I have installed FreeBSD 6.3 onto a new machine. I cvsup'd ('src-all' and 'ports-all', RELENG_6_3). I then set some /etc/make.conf parameters (CPUTYPE=c3, It has a Via CPU? Comment that option and try again. -- Mel

Re: SMP interrupt problem

2008-02-23 Thread Rob
Scott Bennett wrote: Once it is running it seems to just be busy doing interrupts. When idle top -C -S shows: last pid: 811; load averages: 1.00, 0.67, 0.31up 0+00:04:24 07:32:53 65 processes: 6 running, 43 sleeping, 16 waiting CPU states: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system,

Re: setting X11BASE

2008-02-23 Thread perryh
* What is the value of LOCALBASE? I'm not finding any definition, or other reference, in /etc/make.conf. Just set it to ${LOCALBASE} verbatim. Not what you think is the value of the variable LOCALBASE but the word ${LOCALBASE}. Academic interest :) I'm finding it especially

Re: esx 3.0.2 Update 1 and BTX halted

2008-02-23 Thread Uwe Laverenz
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:39:51PM +0200, Omer Faruk Sen wrote: Has anyone in this list installed fbsd 6.2 or 6.3 to esx 3.0.2 update 1 ?(I have also tried esx 3.0.2 without update 1 and has taken the same error message). If yes have you done anything special for this system ? Yes, I have

Re: setting X11BASE

2008-02-23 Thread Mel
On Saturday 23 February 2008 18:58:22 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * What is the value of LOCALBASE? I'm not finding any definition, or other reference, in /etc/make.conf. Just set it to ${LOCALBASE} verbatim. Not what you think is the value of the variable LOCALBASE but the word

Re: setting X11BASE

2008-02-23 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On February 23, 2008 9:58:22 AM -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm finding it especially interesting that /etc/make.conf, which to judge from its location is part of the base, depends on a setting from something in the /usr/ports tree. Well, actually it doesn't. What gives you this

Re[2]: gmirror on slice

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Wojciech, Saturday, February 23, 2008, 5:15:14 PM, you wrote: Now I want to initialize gmirror on slice 1: ha-db1# gmirror label -v -b round-robin gm0 /dev/ad4s1 gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1: Operation not permitted. ha-db1# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 you try to

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
It has a Via CPU? Comment that option and try again. Mel, It does indeed have a Via cpu. The box is running on a VIA EPIA EK 8000EG motherboard (which has a CPU integrated into it). If I run cat /var/log/dmesg.today | grep CPU, I get... CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah+RNG+AES (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU)

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 01:11 PM 2/23/2008, Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: It has a Via CPU? Comment that option and try again. Mel, It does indeed have a Via cpu. The box is running on a VIA EPIA EK 8000EG motherboard (which has a CPU integrated into it). If I run cat /var/log/dmesg.today | grep CPU, I get... CPU:

Re: My Rebuild Problem

2008-02-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:14 AM 2/23/2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now I get this when I try and log on: no /boot/loader All I want to do is rebuild the silly FBSD! Again, I fell into this silly loop when I tried to rebuild: -- Select Drive -- FDISK Partition Editor (Q) -- Install Boot Manager and it just

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
It looks like your c compiler is bad. You may want to try a binary upgrade from CD to the same version you are running. Then try the ports again. Derek, I did a make world from the RELENG_6_3 security branch. Wouldn't that suggest theres a problem with the compiler code in RELENG_6_3? How

Nightmare on FreeBSD Street: NIC Drivers

2008-02-23 Thread W. D.
Compiled, built kernel, and world per: http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html Still getting timeout errors. Seems like more of them with this nfe driver. FreeBSD 6.2, Asus M2NPV-VM, nVidia Ethernet. Can anyone help me debug this problem or suggest a solid,

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Mel
On Saturday 23 February 2008 20:11:18 Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: It has a Via CPU? Comment that option and try again. Mel, It does indeed have a Via cpu. The box is running on a VIA EPIA EK 8000EG motherboard (which has a CPU integrated into it). If I run cat /var/log/dmesg.today | grep

Re[2]: gmirror on slice

2008-02-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1: Operation not permitted. ha-db1# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 you try to make a mirror on used slice or some partition of that and what's wrong with that, actually? how do I create gmirror-ed slice then? I have also tried the above commands on

[Wireless] Can't connect to wlan

2008-02-23 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Howdy, I've been trying to connect my laptop, running 7.0-RC3, to my wireless network but It Isn't Working. Wpa_supplicant can find the network ok and ifconfig shows the correct SSID, authentication mode, protocol, BSSID etc. However, it also says no carrier. So needless to say DHCP cries no

Re: [freebsd-questions] Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Tuc at T-B-O-H.NET
This clearly points at a compiler bug, with the VIA cpu, but since world/kernel build cleanly and anything else bugs out quite early, I would suspect an optimization bug. This may have nothing to do with it, but little story... We used to buy whiteboxed machines, and as a

Re[3]: gmirror on slice

2008-02-23 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello Wojciech, Saturday, February 23, 2008, 8:41:55 PM, you wrote: gmirror: Can't store metadata on /dev/ad4s1: Operation not permitted. ha-db1# sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 you try to make a mirror on used slice or some partition of that and what's wrong with that, actually? how do I

Re: [Wireless] Can't connect to wlan

2008-02-23 Thread Mel
On Saturday 23 February 2008 20:50:04 Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: Howdy, I've been trying to connect my laptop, running 7.0-RC3, to my wireless network but It Isn't Working. Wpa_supplicant can find the network ok and ifconfig shows the correct SSID, authentication mode, protocol, BSSID

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 16:11:41 - Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: I have installed FreeBSD 6.3 onto a new machine. I cvsup'd ('src-all' and 'ports-all', RELENG_6_3). Did you set a tag RELENG_6_3 for ports? I'm not sure what you may get but RELENG_6_3_0 is for the release tag and . (i.e. a dot)

Re: [Wireless] Can't connect to wlan

2008-02-23 Thread Alphons Fonz van Werven
Mel wrote: If it's not wep you're using, now would be a good time to mention what you are using :) Okay. I was hoping that the no carrier thing indicated some trivial mistake on my part but since it's WPA2 I'm using I'll post a more elaborate message. It may take a while to gather all the

Re: [Wireless] Can't connect to wlan

2008-02-23 Thread Predrag Punosevac
Alphons Fonz van Werven wrote: Mel wrote: If it's not wep you're using, now would be a good time to mention what you are using :) Okay. I was hoping that the no carrier thing indicated some trivial mistake on my part but since it's WPA2 I'm using I'll post a more elaborate message. It may

Re[3]: gmirror on slice

2008-02-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
and what's wrong with that, actually? how do I create gmirror-ed slice then? I have also tried the above commands on system that has ad4s1 and its partitions unmounted, still getting the same error. swap off? no swap being used. sorry i can't help you more :( but check with gmirror status

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
Could you set the following in /etc/make.conf: CFLAGS=-pipe -O0 # capital O, number zero Mel, You've cracked it. I set CFLAGS as above, and lang/ruby18 installed successfully. What does this mean? The package did install, so the compiler isn't broken. Maybe an optimisation bug as you

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
Did you set a tag RELENG_6_3 for ports? I'm not sure what you may get but RELENG_6_3_0 is for the release tag and . (i.e. a dot) for up-to-date ports. Boris, Yes, I did indeed use the . tag in my cvsup supfile... = supfile == *default host=cvsup.uk.freebsd.org

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Mel
On Saturday 23 February 2008 23:55:51 Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: Could you set the following in /etc/make.conf: CFLAGS=-pipe -O0 # capital O, number zero Mel, You've cracked it. I set CFLAGS as above, and lang/ruby18 installed successfully. What does this mean? The package did install,

Re: Unable to compile anything from ports

2008-02-23 Thread Bruce Cran
Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: It has a Via CPU? Comment that option and try again. Mel, It does indeed have a Via cpu. The box is running on a VIA EPIA EK 8000EG motherboard (which has a CPU integrated into it). If I run cat /var/log/dmesg.today | grep CPU, I get... CPU: VIA C3 Nehemiah+RNG+AES

The FreeBSD Diary: 2008-02-03 - 2008-02-23

2008-02-23 Thread Dan Langille
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