Re: devfs and scanner

2008-05-23 Thread Sébastien Morand
Is the uscanner0 device also dealt with in /etc/devfs.rules ? I don't have such a file, is devd.conf the same purpose? Sebastien ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Perspective on ports for non-experts

2008-05-23 Thread Ross Gohlke
I am a jack-of-all-trades, master of none sysadmin. There's a lot to love about FreeBSD, but ports take the cake. The procedures below work 99% of the time for virtually any software I need to run. I have never had a problem I couldn't quickly fix. I actually had to use portdowngrade once, and it

Re: devfs and scanner

2008-05-23 Thread Glyn Millington
Sébastien Morand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the uscanner0 device also dealt with in /etc/devfs.rules ? I don't have such a file, is devd.conf the same purpose? No it isn't. /etc/devfs.conf deals with devices avaiable at boot time - cdrom drives etc devices that are plugged in and

error:make:don't know how to make buildkernel.stop

2008-05-23 Thread Radomir Skrbek
For make buildkernel you must have source: src-sys src-base I had the same problem. :-) ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Samba in Webmin

2008-05-23 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hi ALL, I have install FreeBSD 7.0 in a VM, after i finish installing it I then install the Webmin (GUI) followed by the SAMBA all goes well. My samba is working properly but when i visit the GUI of Webmin i cant see under the Server my Samba Window File Sharing (GUI). Is this the the new style

Re: RAID 0+1

2008-05-23 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hey, don't use gmirror and atacontrol at the same time. Use one or the other. I don't. As I said: Then I would merge the second slice of all 4 drives into a 0+1 array (first gstriping and then gmirroring them). I somehow succeeded this, but I also get a WARNING when booting the system:

Re: Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

2008-05-23 Thread Matthias Apitz
El día Wednesday, May 21, 2008 a las 07:44:31PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: ... - Note you can install either to SSD or an external SDHC. The SSD is somewhat faster though. (But you can get larger SDHCs). I am dual booting Linux and FreeBSD on mine right now. Linux is on the SSD

Re: Asus eee (was Re: G4 Quicksilver as Web Server?)

2008-05-23 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Matthias Apitz wrote: El día Wednesday, May 21, 2008 a las 07:44:31PM +0300, Manolis Kiagias escribió: ... - Note you can install either to SSD or an external SDHC. The SSD is somewhat faster though. (But you can get larger SDHCs). I am dual booting Linux and FreeBSD on mine right

Re: Multiple instances of BIND at startup

2008-05-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Well, BIND is up to 28 published security advisories: http://www.isc.org/sw/bind/bind-security.php#matrix ...which not only have included cache poisoning (2003-0914), but many of them allowed for arbitrary code execution, often as root. Ok, then I'll ask the obvious... For those who are,

Lock order reversal submissions?

2008-05-23 Thread Tobias Hoellrich
Does anybody happen to know where I can submit lock order reversal outputs (like the one below)? I don't want to spam freebsd-current and http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor.html seems to have not been updated in over a year now. Thanks - Tobias This is from 8.0-CURRENT: May 22 10:57:08

Re: Bind DNS

2008-05-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Is it possible in BIND DNS to block images in a certain sites? like for example the popular friends site ( friendster), i want to block most images in that site so that client will be irritated that their images don't load perfectly. but s till they can visit their site? Any idea guys? DNS is

Re: Bind DNS

2008-05-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:10 PM 5/22/2008, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi ALL, Is it possible in BIND DNS to block images in a certain sites? like for example the popular friends site ( friendster), i want to block most images in that site so that client will be irritated that their images don't load perfectly. but s

Re: Bind DNS

2008-05-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
are images on different serwer than rest of site? On Fri, 23 May 2008, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi ALL, Is it possible in BIND DNS to block images in a certain sites? like for example the popular friends site ( friendster), i want to block most images in that site so that client will be

Re: Bind DNS

2008-05-23 Thread Steve Bertrand
Derek Ragona wrote: At 09:10 PM 5/22/2008, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi ALL, Is it possible in BIND DNS to block images in a certain sites? like for example the popular friends site ( friendster), i want to block most images in that site so that client will be irritated that their images don't load

Re: /usr/src/Makefile instructions

2008-05-23 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Tom Evans wrote: On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 05:49 -0700, KAYVEN RIESE wrote: I've redirected this to questions@, as this seems more like a 'User question/technical support' rather than 'General technical discussion'. Please try to keep the mailing lists on topic. That list

Re: /usr/src/Makefile instructions

2008-05-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Evans wrote: I've redirected this to questions@, as this seems more like a 'User question/technical support' rather than 'General technical discussion'. Please try to keep the mailing lists on topic. That list is too busy. I find I don't

Re: Bind DNS

2008-05-23 Thread Derek Ragona
At 09:07 AM 5/23/2008, Steve Bertrand wrote: Derek Ragona wrote: At 09:10 PM 5/22/2008, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi ALL, Is it possible in BIND DNS to block images in a certain sites? like for example the popular friends site ( friendster), i want to block most images in that site so that client

RE: RAID 0+1

2008-05-23 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt
-Original Message- From: Nejc Škoberne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 2:06 AM To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: 'User Questions' Subject: Re: RAID 0+1 Hey, don't use gmirror and atacontrol at the same time. Use one or the other. I don't. As I said: Then I

Re: Sed, shell and hexadecimal character codes

2008-05-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Karel Miklav wrote: There's a tip in the FreeBSD fortunes database that says: Want to strip UTF-8 BOM(Bye Order Mark) from given files? sed -e '1s/^\xef\xbb\xbf//' bomfile newfile FreeBSD's sed(1) doesn't support hexadecimal or octal sequences. I think even gnu sed doesn't

Re: /usr/src/Makefile instructions

2008-05-23 Thread soralx
On that note, was I given misinformation when I was advised that it would be impossible to upgrade RELENG_6_2 directly to RELENG_7 ? Close to implausible, perhaps? That would indeed be the case, unless you truly are longing for a major workout, either with mergemaster et al, or both with

Re: Shell scripting - suppressing and eliminating error messages

2008-05-23 Thread Oliver Fromme
Paul Schmehl wrote: --On Tuesday, May 20, 2008 17:36:26 -0500 Paul Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if ( ${BATCH} ); then [...] 1: not found Never mindforgot to use [ ] for test instead of ( ). If the value of $BATCH is always either 0 and 1, a neat trick is to define two

Re: Your suggestions about this Dell configuration?

2008-05-23 Thread VeeJay
Hello Frank Really good points. I am really glad to have your thoughts. Regarding your questions and comments, I have given some answers and a couple of questions in *RED* colour. Please comment if you happen to manage some time during weekend, Thanks! *Please continue...* On Thu, May 22, 2008

Re: Trouble upgrading qt33 with portupgrade after package installation

2008-05-23 Thread DAve
Ross Gohlke wrote: I have been running FreeBSD 6 successfully for over a year without installing any ports from packages. I have had great success using ports but sticking with make install clean/portupgrade. I recently decided to try running X11/KDE. I thought I would save some time and learn

How to get best results from FreeBSD-questions

2008-05-23 Thread Greg Lehey
How to get the best results from FreeBSD questions. === Last update $Date: 2005/08/10 02:21:44 $ This is a regular posting to the FreeBSD questions mailing list. If you got it in answer to a message you sent, it means that the sender thinks that

The Complete FreeBSD: errata and addenda

2008-05-23 Thread Greg Lehey
The trouble with books is that you can't update them the way you can a web page or any other online documentation. The result is that most leading edge computer books are out of date almost before they are printed. Unfortunately, The Complete FreeBSD, published by O'Reilly, is no exception.

Re: Trouble upgrading qt33 with portupgrade after package installation

2008-05-23 Thread Ross Gohlke
Ross Gohlke wrote: I have been running FreeBSD 6 successfully for over a year without installing any ports from packages. I have had great success using ports but sticking with make install clean/portupgrade. I recently decided to try running X11/KDE. I thought I would save some time and

Re: Your suggestions about this Dell configuration?

2008-05-23 Thread Frank Shute
Hi VeeJay, On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 06:24:42PM +0200, VeeJay wrote: Hello Frank Really good points. I am really glad to have your thoughts. Regarding your questions and comments, I have given some answers and a couple of questions in *RED* colour. Please comment if you happen to manage some

kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

2008-05-23 Thread paul beard
I see a lot of these as my system grinds to a halt. It never crashes (I reboot it when it gets really boggy . . . May 23 11:41:13 stinky kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 49155, size: 4096 May 23 11:41:21 stinky kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0,

Delaying mount of UFS filesystem in ZFS pool

2008-05-23 Thread Aaron Holmes
I have a UFS filesystem inside a zpool: tank on /tank (zfs, local) /dev/zvol/tank/ufs on /mnt/ufs (ufs, local, acls) If I add that entry (/dev/zvol/tank/ufs) to /etc/fstab, it will try to mount as a critical filesystem on boot, however, because ZFS hasn't yet loaded, this fails and causes all

Re: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

2008-05-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 01:02:35PM -0700, paul beard wrote: I see a lot of these as my system grinds to a halt. It never crashes (I reboot it when it gets really boggy . . . May 23 11:41:13 stinky kernel: swap_pager: indefinite wait buffer: bufobj: 0, blkno: 49155, size: 4096 May 23

Re: Lock order reversal submissions?

2008-05-23 Thread Kris Kennaway
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 05:26:29AM -0700, Tobias Hoellrich wrote: Does anybody happen to know where I can submit lock order reversal outputs (like the one below)? I don't want to spam freebsd-current and http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/lor.html seems to have not been updated in over a year

Re: SVN Advice

2008-05-23 Thread Reid Linnemann
Written by [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 05/19/08 06:05 Hello all, I'm seeking to set up an SVN repository on my home machine. I've come across the following two guides: http://www.bsdguides.org/guides/freebsd/misc/subversion.php

Re: Bind DNS

2008-05-23 Thread Jeffrey Goldberg
On May 22, 2008, at 9:10 PM, Ruel Luchavez wrote: Hi ALL, Is it possible in BIND DNS to block images in a certain sites? like for example the popular friends site ( friendster), i want to block most images in that site so that client will be irritated that their images don't load

Re: /usr/src/Makefile instructions

2008-05-23 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 23 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On that note, was I given misinformation when I was advised that it would be impossible to upgrade RELENG_6_2 directly to RELENG_7 ? Close to implausible, perhaps? That would indeed be the case, unless you truly are longing for a major workout,

Re: /usr/src/Makefile instructions

2008-05-23 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 23 May 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On that note, was I given misinformation when I was advised that it would be impossible to upgrade RELENG_6_2 directly to RELENG_7 ? pcm/mixer.c /usr/src/sys/modules/sound/sound/../../../dev/sound/pcm/sndstat.c

Re: /usr/src/Makefile instructions

2008-05-23 Thread KAYVEN RIESE
On Fri, 23 May 2008, Oliver Fromme wrote: KAYVEN RIESE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tom Evans wrote: I've redirected this to questions@, as this seems more like a 'User question/technical support' rather than 'General technical discussion'. Please try to keep the mailing lists on topic.

Uninstall Webmin

2008-05-23 Thread Ruel Luchavez
Hi, Guys, how do you uninstall the setup of webmin (setu.sh)? i allready search all the directory of my webmin but i cant find the unistall.sh? any idea here? Cheers ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Updated php, and apache segfaults on SIGHUP

2008-05-23 Thread Andrew Moran
Excellent suggestions. On May 20, 2008, at 12:42 PM, Sean C. Farley wrote: I meant the opposite. The latest port version of PHP has a bug on FreeBSD 7. Try it again with the previous patch. How do I do that with the ports collection? On May 20, 2008, at 12:45 PM, Claus Guttesen wrote:

Pedigree Wood Crafts Keyless Mandrel

2008-05-23 Thread Pedigree Wood Crafts
This message is in MIME format. Since your mail reader does not understand this format, some or all of this message may not be legible. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Use of Com1

2008-05-23 Thread Doug Hardie
I have a number of servers that used to run FreeBSD 6.2. On each of them the com1 port was connected via a NAS so that I could access the console remotely. All worked just fine. Then I replaced 2 of the servers with 2 new identical units and upgraded everything to FreeBSD 7.0. One of

Re: kernel debugging: seeing swap issues in 7.0

2008-05-23 Thread paul beard
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Kris Kennaway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can try increasing the timeout by editing the relevant kernel source, but if it's failing to reply to the I/O after 30 seconds then something is drastically overloaded on your system. Well, not much is running, and

Ekiga/OPAL won't compile

2008-05-23 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Hello, I am trying to install Ekiga 2.0.11_3 on FreeBSD 7.0 via the ports. Ekiga depends on the OPAL libraries, which then give me the following error while compiling: - - - - [...] === ekiga-2.0.11_3 depends on shared library: opal_r - not found ===Verifying install for

Re: Uninstall Webmin

2008-05-23 Thread Sahil Tandon
* Ruel Luchavez [EMAIL PROTECTED] [05-24-2008]: Guys, how do you uninstall the setup of webmin (setu.sh)? i allready search all the directory of my webmin but i cant find the unistall.sh? setup.sh would have created uninstall.sh, but files/patch-aa