Re: Bios chip update suggestions

2009-02-14 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Can you set your system clock first L-) This message is dated 14.3.2009 @ 11:37 Jos Chrispijn Fbsd1 wrote: Chris Whitehouse wrote: Fbsd1 wrote: I have an desktop manufactured in 2002 by a South Korean company Hyunju. The company is now out of business. It's bio's do not allow booting from a

Re: How to interrupt hung boot process?

2009-02-14 Thread Dieter
Shaun writes: Have you tried ^X or ^Z? Often when my cable modem has lost its link and I reboot, FreeBSD will hang waiting to start sendmail because it can't determine the local IP. Sometimes it will hang while processing my ipfw scripts due to DNS failures. I usually try ^C, ^X, and ^Z in

Unix Epoch

2009-02-14 Thread Jos Chrispijn
On 13.02.2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to '1234567890'. This was the total time that has been elapsed since 1 januari 1970 0:00 UTC. After having survived from a major headache (...) I wonder whether this can technically affect my system or is it just a milestone in

Unix Epoch

2009-02-14 Thread Jos Chrispijn
On 13.02.2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to '1234567890'. This was the total time that has been elapsed since 1 januari 1970 0:00 UTC. After having survived from a major headache (...) I wonder whether this can technically affect my system or is it just a

Re: Unix Epoch

2009-02-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
On 13.02.2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to '1234567890'. This was the total time that has been elapsed since 1 januari 1970 0:00 UTC. After having survived from a major headache (...) I wonder whether this can technically affect my system or is it just a milestone

Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

2009-02-14 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 14/2/09 06:28, Tim Judd wrote: On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 22:32 -0600, Bobby Walker wrote: I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to

ipv6 aliases in rc.conf

2009-02-14 Thread Reinhard Haller
Hi, I'm trying to add ipv6 aliases for my jails (7.1) in rc.conf. ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet 192.168.64.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_lo0_alias1=inet 192.168.64.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 ipv6_ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet6 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::1 prefixlen 48 ipv6_ifconfig_lo0_alias1=inet6

Re: reread newsyslog.conf without reboot

2009-02-14 Thread H.fazaeli
newsyslog.conf is read by newsyslog(8) and newsyslog is executed by cron(8) as specified in /etc/crontab, usually every hour. so you changes will take effect the next time cron runs newsyslog. Fbsd1 wrote: How do I get the system to reread /etc/newsyslog.conf file with out rebooting the

Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

2009-02-14 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 22:32:39 -0600 Bobby Walker bo...@missionaccess.org wrote: I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to configure a catchall

OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting

2009-02-14 Thread Simon Griffiths
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

Re: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting

2009-02-14 Thread Wojciech Puchar
joe probably can. i don't use PHP but it highlights properly every other language source i use On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: 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

Pendrive 8G+CAM_REQ_CMP_ERR

2009-02-14 Thread Sylvio César Teixeira Amorim
Hello everyone, Gentlemen, I wonder if someone passed by the following problem, I have 3 Pendrive, 2 are 1, 1G and 8G, I'm using FreeBSD-7.1-stable, the problem is when you connect to 8G, the fbsd detects the device, da0, etc, but not create the / dev/da0 takes us about 10min trying to

RE: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting

2009-02-14 Thread Simon Griffiths
Beautiful! That is exactly what I wanted. Thank you very much! Si. -Original Message- From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Wojciech Puchar Sent: 14 February 2009 12:46 To: Simon Griffiths Cc:

Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers

2009-02-14 Thread Gabe
--- On Mon, 2/9/09, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers To: n...@att.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 3:08 PM Gabe wrote: Now with

Re: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting

2009-02-14 Thread Lars Eighner
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: 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. joe -- Lars Eighner

Re: Upgrading gcc on FreeBSD 4.11

2009-02-14 Thread RW
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:29:12 -0600 Shaun free...@shaunc.com wrote: Is it safe to install one of the newer gcc ports on FreeBSD 4.11? I've had this machine for three years; I don't recall ever upgrading the compiler, although pkg_info seems to think that I did, or at least attempted

OT: sed + exit status

2009-02-14 Thread Robert Huff
According to the man page: EXIT STATUS The sed utility exits 0 on success, and 0 if an error occurs. However, what constitutes success is undefined. Consider the sed command s/FOO/bar/ . Is sed successful is there are no instances of FOO? Or

Re: Unix Epoch

2009-02-14 Thread Andrew Gould
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 2:32 AM, Jos Chrispijn j...@webrz.net wrote: On 13.02.2009 at exactly 23:31:30 (UTC), Unix time was equal to '1234567890'. This was the total time that has been elapsed since 1 januari 1970 0:00 UTC. After having survived from a major headache (...) I wonder whether

Re: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting

2009-02-14 Thread Sean Cavanaugh
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

RE: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting

2009-02-14 Thread Simon Griffiths
Thanks for the tip Sean. It was mentioned that I could use joe and part of the /usr/ports/editors/joe build there is jpico which emulates the shortcuts im so used to in pico and nano. I think joe works great for me. Cheers, Si. Simon Griffiths So bored I made... www.tenenbaum.co.uk

Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers

2009-02-14 Thread Matthew Seaman
Gabe wrote: --- On Mon, 2/9/09, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers To: n...@att.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Monday, February 9, 2009, 3:08 PM Gabe wrote:

Re: Recommendations for running FreeBSD as a guest OS

2009-02-14 Thread Michael Powell
Bobby Walker wrote: I have a small network at work that, unfortunately, uses Windows 2003. I need a good mail server, but I do not have a budget for purchasing additional software. Exchange requires too many hacks to configure a catchall email account, and Exchange and I do not get along

Why there are so many binary packages missing on FTP?

2009-02-14 Thread Yuri
/usr/ports/UPDATING recently recommended to upgrade kde-4.1.0 to kde-4-2.0. So I deleted kde-4.1.0 only to find out that there are no binaries for both kde-4.1.0 and kde-4.2.0. So I had to build kde-4.2.0 for many hours, again, only to find out that it doesn't work as well as kde-4.1.0.

Re: ipv6 aliases in rc.conf

2009-02-14 Thread Steve Bertrand
Reinhard Haller wrote: Hi, I'm trying to add ipv6 aliases for my jails (7.1) in rc.conf. ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet 192.168.64.1 netmask 255.255.255.0 ifconfig_lo0_alias1=inet 192.168.64.2 netmask 255.255.255.255 ipv6_ifconfig_lo0_alias0=inet6 fd08:2548:a3e8:40::1 prefixlen 48

gpac-libgpac port not building on amd64

2009-02-14 Thread Troy
I just did a successful portupgrade of multimedia/gpac-libgpac but when trying to upgrade the exact same port on amd64, it fails with the following error. Thanks cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-pointer-sign

Re: OT console based editor that can do php syntax highlighting

2009-02-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 12:27:02 -, Simon Griffiths simon.griffi...@tenenbaum.co.uk wrote: 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.

Re: gpac-libgpac port not building on amd64

2009-02-14 Thread Josh Carroll
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 1:42 PM, Troy t...@twisted.net wrote: I just did a successful portupgrade of multimedia/gpac-libgpac but when trying to upgrade the exact same port on amd64, it fails with the following error. Thanks cc -O3 -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fPIC -pthread

getty on /dev/ttypN

2009-02-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
After upgrading from 5.5 to 6.3 I'm noticing this a lot on the main console and in my logs. Dec 25 09:33:28 kanga init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/ttyp0: No such file or directory Dec 25 09:33:38 kanga init: can't exec getty 'none' for port /dev/ttyp1: No such file or directory

Re: portupgrade failing on perl modules

2009-02-14 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On 08/02/09 Matthew Seaman said: I'd wager that 'pkg_info -l p5-Module-Giving-You-Trouble' says everything is installed under ${LOCALBASE}/lib/perl5/site-perl/5.8.8 but that if you run 'perl -v' the number 5.8.9 is prominently displayed. Please read the UPDATING entry for 20090113, strike

Re: gpac-libgpac port not building on amd64

2009-02-14 Thread Josh Carroll
http://pflog.net/~floyd/gpac-libgpac.patch Oops, if anyone grabbed that patch, grab it again, I ran the diff against the wrong original Makefile that had my --disable-opengl hard-coded in there during testing. Sorry for the trouble. Josh ___

Re: getty on /dev/ttypN

2009-02-14 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 15:33:20 -0500, Michael P. Soulier msoul...@digitaltorque.ca wrote: I think I ran mergemaster correctly on the upgrade. I'm not sure why init is trying to talk to these ports, which are obviously pseudo terminals... Do you have X running? Usually, the ttypN pseudo terminals

The FreeBSD Diary: 2009-02-14

2009-02-14 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: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers

2009-02-14 Thread Gabe
--- On Sat, 2/14/09, Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: From: Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD Preferred RAID controllers To: n...@att.net Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Saturday, February 14, 2009, 8:30 AM Gabe wrote: --- On

bootable 7.1 USB disk versus flash drive versus internal ide hard drive

2009-02-14 Thread Fbsd1
Is there a differences between a usb external hard drive and a usb flash drive boot loader pgm? When i plug a usb flash drive in FreeBSD handles it just like a internal IDE hard drive. To make a hard drive bootable you have to write the boot loader pgm to the disk. Does the ide hard drive boot

Re: OT: sed + exit status

2009-02-14 Thread Dimitar Vasilev
. Is sed successful is there are no instances of FOO? Or only if there is at least one instance of FOO and it is successfully replaced by bar? Respectfully, Robert Huff ___