exporting http proxy

2009-02-23 Thread GrimJow Espada
how do i export http proxy using links browser tried export http_proxy=http://company.proxy it doesnt work ; command not found ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

LDAP pam

2009-02-23 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I have a LDAP server, a file server running NFS server and a web server running NFS client. I want the web server to be able to know the users' account stored on LDAP, but not provide authentication; so I can have URL's of the form http://my.web/~john/index.html for the user john, where

Re: a strange question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Redd Vinylene
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello Community, The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: - OpenSUSE 10.3 - Debian 4.0 - CentOS 5 The company i work for wants to

Web or X GUI for pf / isc-dchp3-server

2009-02-23 Thread Jaco le Roux
Hi, Would anyone know if there is any kind of X-style (or web) GUI for FreeBSD applications like pf and isc-dhcp3-server ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe,

Re: exporting http proxy

2009-02-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
in links you have proxy in options. for other things export http_proxy=http://proxy; in sh/bash, in csh setenv http_proxy http://proxy; ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: flashplugin9?

2009-02-23 Thread Marc Fonvieille
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and flashplugin-9. So far, no joy. I have firefox2, and when I try to

Re: a strange question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Mehul Ved
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:25 PM, Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com wrote: The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: - OpenSUSE 10.3 - Debian 4.0 - CentOS 5 snip I doubt you'll find anything suitable after

Re: Where is my STRFILE?

2009-02-23 Thread Harry Matthiesen Jensen
On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 08:03:24PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: If I try installing the fortunes, the port-makefile complains that there is no strfile available. Do you see following files on your system: /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile /usr/src/games/fortune/strfile/Makefile

Re: Problems upgrading SpamAssassin

2009-02-23 Thread Manfred Usselmann
On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 09:58:37 -0800 Tankko tan...@gmail.com wrote: I am having problems up grading SpamAssassin. The get the following errors when I do portupgrade. I hand corrected the first error by following the instructions listed below, then this error showed. Before I go though and

Re: make config options find / used same as binary package

2009-02-23 Thread Daniel Bye
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 09:20:54AM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: Hiya Recently someone asked about the showing of the config options from the ports. My questions is, how do we see or find what were the options used when installed from binary (pkg_add -r binaryPackage). If you install

FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios

2009-02-23 Thread Gian Paolo Buono
Hi, I have on my server ibm 3650 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 and the proccess that running are nagios-3.0.3, apache-2.2.8 and heartbeat-1.2.5_3; random after some day machine becomes semi-dead, the ping respond but any stack (ssh,http) don't work and heartbeat don't switch the resources I can't loggon

Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios

2009-02-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
did you lowered kern.maxbcache if not - probably your disk subsystem locked. can you be there near local console? On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Gian Paolo Buono wrote: Hi, I have on my server ibm 3650 FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p2 and the proccess that running are nagios-3.0.3, apache-2.2.8 and

Re: flashplugin9?

2009-02-23 Thread eculp
Quoting Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:22:50PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Gary, ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the pluginwrapper and the flash version. I have made up some howto, maybe you want to check your installation step

Re: FreeBSD 7.1 on Intel server board S3200SHV

2009-02-23 Thread Martin Schweizer
Hello Abdullah One more question: Does the internal graphic card (ATI...) works under X without any problems? Regards, Am Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:57:35AM -0800 Abdullah Ibn Hamad Al-Marri schrieb: - Original Message From: Martin Schweizer lists_free...@bluewin.ch To:

Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios

2009-02-23 Thread Gian Paolo Buono
When I try to log in console after insert username: root the server stay in hang and i can't insert password... How do I know if disk subsystem is locked ? which value and where can i set kern.maxbcache ? or do You suggest anythingelse ? thanks ... On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Wojciech

Passing ppp/vpn with ip-filter

2009-02-23 Thread Erik Norgaard
Hi: I have the following setup: XP -- FBSD -- Ineternet --- Work I need to setup a VPN connection from my work station to work but the connection failes, presumably blocked by my firewall. The FBSD gateway use ip filter to filter traffic with a default block. Listening on the pflog

Re: a strange question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com wrote: Hello Community, The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: - OpenSUSE 10.3 - Debian 4.0 - CentOS 5 The company i work for wants to

Re: LDAP pam

2009-02-23 Thread Maciej Milewski
Monday 23 February 2009 10:37:19 Olivier Nicole napisaƂ(a): I want the web server to be able to know the users' account stored on LDAP, but not provide authentication; so I can have URL's of the form http://my.web/~john/index.html for the user john, where john's home directory if NFS mounted

Re: a strange question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Reko Turja
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote: Hello Community, The following question may sound very ackward but was OS is suitable from the following list to replace FBSD: Depenguinate the host?

Re: a strange question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Reko Turja
-- From: Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:55 AM To: questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a strange question about OSs On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.comwrote:

Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios

2009-02-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
When I try to log in console after insert username: root the server stay in hang and i can't insert password... it is locked. on first console you should see kernel messages How do I know if disk subsystem is locked ? which value and where can i set kern.maxbcache ? or do You suggest if

Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios

2009-02-23 Thread Gian Paolo Buono
Hi, I have no message on first console :( ..I have no messages in any log ...:( ... I do not know what to do... On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: When I try to log in console after insert username: root the server stay in hang and i

Re: OT: The official stool for FreeBSD users?

2009-02-23 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:18:16PM -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/07/i-dont-wanna-grow-up-im-a-big-kid-now/ I'd describe it, but I don't want to spoil the surprise. Enjoy. I was thinking of stool in the medical sense shudder I wondered for a minute

Re: a strange question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Saifi Khan
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Saifi Khan saifik...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Valentin Bud valentin@gmail.com wrote: Hello Community, The following question may sound very ackward

Re: a strange question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:17:44PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote: -- From: Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:55 AM To: questions questi...@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a strange question about OSs On Mon, Feb

Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios

2009-02-23 Thread Gian Paolo Buono
Hi, the memory is ok, i have justr run a memtest ...the problem there'is when start nagios ...in fact on the same node when nagios is down no hang ... bye... On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 3:12 PM, Christopher J. Umina ch...@easymac.orgwrote: Gian Paolo Buono wrote: Hi, I have no message on

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Reko Turja
-- From: Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz Sent: Sunday, February 22, 2009 9:24 PM I think that one of FBSD's guiding principles is *correctness* ... or, at least, that's one of the higher values of the community. By way of evidence, I present the

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: 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

broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-23 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 Using the ndisgen approach with bcm5wls.sys and bcm5wls.inf files creates a driver file which on kldload causes a kernel panic. Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a

Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Interestingly on the same laptop, there is a ethernet card of RTL 8139, which is also not detected by FreeBSD 7.1 . However, lets not something is wrong. for sure RTL 8139 is perfectly supported. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FreeBSD 7 server in hang with nagios

2009-02-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I have no message on first console :( ..I have no messages in any log ...:( ... I do not know what to do... completely no idea - in case of disk problems there are lots of kernel message on first console. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 2:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Sun, 22 Feb 2009 18:04:48 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: Giorgos Keramidas wrote: You can always check out ... from a date before its removal from the ports/ tree ... If you need help with maintaining a local copy of the relevant ports ... let me know and I'll write a short

Re: wrong time stamp 1 JAN 1970 on /var/tmp/orbit-user

2009-02-23 Thread Joe Marcus Clarke
On Wed, 2009-02-18 at 15:52 +, Anton Shterenlikht wrote: I use FBSD 6.4-stable alpha. When starting a browser (firefox2 or kazehakase) no window is open, instead: GConf Error: Failed to contact configuration server; some possible causes are that you need to enable TCP/IP networking

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 04:49:34PM -0800, prad wrote: my son has a hp TC4200 tablet which worked very well with ubuntu. he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial connection. Are you sure

Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: touch gtype-desc.h touch: No such

Re: Web or X GUI for pf / isc-dchp3-server

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:26:04AM +0200, Jaco le Roux wrote: Hi, Would anyone know if there is any kind of X-style (or web) GUI for FreeBSD applications like pf and isc-dhcp3-server ? The sysutils/webmin port would enable you to configure DHCP and a lot of other things from a browser.

root's crontab and mysqldump

2009-02-23 Thread Joseph Simmons
I'm running a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system and am trying to run a mysqldump as root. I've written a very simple script that does the dump, it works fine when I run it manually, but when I include it in the root's crontab (crontab -e) or in the system's crontab (/etc/crontab), I see that the script

Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:51:05PM +, Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 There are no Broadcom wireless drivers in 7.1. The command 'apropos broadcom' only returns a couple of wired

Re: root's crontab and mysqldump

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Boosten
Joseph Simmons wrote: I'm running a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE system and am trying to run a mysqldump as root. I've written a very simple script that does the dump, it works fine when I run it manually, but when I include it in the root's crontab (crontab -e) or in the system's crontab

Re: root's crontab and mysqldump

2009-02-23 Thread Joseph Simmons
I added the full path and the result didn't change. I can still see it running in the log but the script doesn't appear to be doing anything. I have the following variables set in the root's crontab SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin HOME=/root The file I'd like

Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread af300wsm
On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point

Re: root's crontab and mysqldump

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Boosten
Joseph Simmons wrote: I added the full path and the result didn't change. I can still see it running in the log but the script doesn't appear to be doing anything. I have the following variables set in the root's crontab SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash PATH=/etc:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin

Re: flashplugin9?

2009-02-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:05:48AM +0100, Marc Fonvieille wrote: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Guys, If I stick with FreeBSD as my main desktop, I want firefox and

Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:27:06PM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread prad
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:28:19 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: he has switched to fbsd7.1 and installed /usr/ports/x11-drivers/input-wacom it was compiled without usb support since the tablet uses a serial connection. Are you sure this has a Wacom compatible tablet?

Re: Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Robert Huff
af300...@gmail.com writes: I'ma little unclear about how to build individual programs from within the source tree. Can you please explain how I'd do this? Assuming 1) you have the source tree installed, and 2) it and the kernel are of compatible versions (shouldn't be a problem

Re: flashplugin9?

2009-02-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:15:35AM -0600, ec...@casasponti.net wrote: Quoting Gary Kline kl...@thought.org: On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:22:50PM +0100, herbert langhans wrote: Hi Gary, ff3 should work as well as ff2. May depend on the version of the pluginwrapper and the flash version. I

Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Lowell Gilbert
af300...@gmail.com writes: On Feb 23, 2009 10:43am, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:15:16AM +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night).

Re: root's crontab and mysqldump

2009-02-23 Thread Steven Kreuzer
On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Joseph Simmons wrote: I added the full path and the result didn't change. I can still see it running in the log but the script doesn't appear to be doing anything. I have the following variables set in the root's crontab SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash

difficulty using SSH Kerberos PAM Authentication with 7.1 Release

2009-02-23 Thread KAK BO CHE
I recently did a freebsd-update to a machine running 6.3 to 7.1. I am now having difficulty getting pam_krb5 to work as it used to for sshd authentication. After upgrading to 7.1 I noticed the openpam_dispatch() and pam_sm_authenticate() errors on my console when trying to login via ssh. I fixed

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 10:52:48AM -0800, prad wrote: snip is there anyway to find out if the tablet is actually being recognized? Check if /dev/ttyd0 really exists. Also check dmesg output to see if the device is recognized. here we have a curious problem. /dev/ttyd0 is there

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:01:54PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote: What I find ironic, is that the talent drifts either to fully commercial projects, or those which are licensed under BSD - and in many cases even both. What's so ironic about that? -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed OWL:

Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Moran
I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. Is there a good path to do this? Will I have to reinstall, or can I do a buildworld/installworld over the i386? --Andy ___

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:15:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Documenting such local 'hacks' in the Handbook is a bit like rubber stamping them with the official 'recommended by FreeBSD' seal of approval. I am not sure I would like that a lot. Serious security problems may exist in

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:11:55PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: alpine works fine I know. That's why I am not in favor of maintaining pine4 *in* the Ports tree. If someone wants to blow

Re: OT: The official stool for FreeBSD users?

2009-02-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 08:18:16PM -0800, Charles Oppermann wrote: http://www.yankodesign.com/2008/11/07/i-dont-wanna-grow-up-im-a-big-kid-now/ I think it might for a great official stool for FreeBSD as soon as the designer's site is usable without Flash. -- Chad Perrin [ content licensed

Re: Web or X GUI for pf / isc-dchp3-server

2009-02-23 Thread Vincent Hoffman
On 23/2/09 17:54, Roland Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:26:04AM +0200, Jaco le Roux wrote: Hi, Would anyone know if there is any kind of X-style (or web) GUI for FreeBSD applications like pf and isc-dhcp3-server ? The sysutils/webmin port would enable you to configure

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:30:10AM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: I installed the i386 distro on my Core 2 Duo instead of AMD64 and now I want to switch to using AMD64. First of all, your Core2 Duo should work just fine with i386. The amd64 architecture is an extension of the x86 arch. Unless

Re: broadcom wireless card BCM94311MCG on FreeBSD 7.1

2009-02-23 Thread Gonzalo Nemmi
On Monday 23 February 2009 2:51:05 pm Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: Compaq C301TU laptop has a Broadcom chipset based wireless card and i'm unable to make it work on FreeBSD 7.1 Using the ndisgen approach with bcm5wls.sys and bcm5wls.inf files creates a driver file which on kldload causes a

Re: flashplugin9?

2009-02-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 03:54:03PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:02:57AM +0200, Manolis Kiagias wrote: Just a quick note, firefox3 uses /usr/local/lib/firefox3/plugins as the plugins directory, while firefox2 uses /usr/local/browser_plugins. You will probably have

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread prad
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:32:49 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: Could be that the serial hardware is b0rken. Or the serial chip is fried. the tablet works fine with ubuntu. Chek if you have any weird settings for sio0 in /boot/device.hints. ok thx! i got this post on the

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Andrew Moran
Thank you. I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I know there are some tweaks I can do to help alleviate these, but I want to address all my memory before I increase the kernel memory. I don't

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Jerry
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:50:41 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: [snip] I can see both sides of this argument. Maybe we need to split up FreeBSD documentation into two domains, similarly to the way FreeBSD software is split into two domains (core and ports) -- and thus have a place

Re: Logcheck dependency hell

2009-02-23 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Cowart wrote: n j wrote: could anyone help me what command should I use to find out which logcheck-required port _exactly_ is trying to install half of the X libraries? The Makefile says: | BUILD_DEPENDS=

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Feb 23), Andrew Moran said: I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I know there are some tweaks I can do to help alleviate these, but I want to address all my memory before I

Re: Accessing /dev/lpt0 in a Jail

2009-02-23 Thread Jasvinder S. Bahra
Paul, Thanks for your help - it's much appreciated. It looks like devfs rules are indeed what I need to play with. As i'm using ezjail, it seems things are a little different. Instead of editing the host's /etc/rc.conf file , and specifying the ruleset there, I had to edit the

What is correct way to enable watchdog?

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Steele
We have our systems configured with the watchdog enabled, with /etc/rc.d/watchdogd defined as . /etc/rc.subr name=watchdogd rcvar=`set_rcvar` command=/usr/sbin/${name} command_args=-s 10 -t 300 pidfile=/var/run/${name}.pid load_rc_config $name run_rc_command $1 We assumed this would

Alternative to sysinstall?

2009-02-23 Thread Peter Steele
We want to develop a system imaging process where all we have to do is insert a USB thumb drive into a system and reboot it, and some time later the system would be loaded up with whatever FreeBSD software the particular thumb drive being used is configured. We'd have different thumb drives for

Re: Alternative to sysinstall?

2009-02-23 Thread Polytropon
A possibility would be to develop the different target systems first on a builder system, maybe using jails. This system is completely installed as it is intended to be on the target system later on. Then the partitions are dumped (using dump, of course) as data files onto the USB thumb.

understanding freebsd development logic

2009-02-23 Thread prad
i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor development model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people were still working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4 and now with 7.x underway, there is work being do for 8 (for which you can get a snapshot cd. (i

Re: Upgrade from FreeBSD 7.1/i386 to FreeBSD 7.1/AMD64?

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:59:21PM -0800, Andrew Moran wrote: Thank you. You're welcome! Please don't top post; it destroys the flow of the conversation. I have 8 gigs of memory in this system, and I decided go to the ZFS route, and am now getting kernel panics about kmem exhaustion. I

Re: root's crontab and mysqldump

2009-02-23 Thread Joseph Simmons
Adding /usr/local/bin gives the same result. On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 1:00 PM, Steven Kreuzer skreu...@exit2shell.comwrote: On Feb 23, 2009, at 1:26 PM, Joseph Simmons wrote: I added the full path and the result didn't change. I can still see it running in the log but the script doesn't

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:56:11PM -0800, prad wrote: i got this post on the freebsd forum from kamakazi: The kernel module is really only for wacom tablets. More precisely for USB connected tablets, IIRC. To use the Xorg driver you have to run Xorg without HAL support. I always compile

Re: understanding freebsd development logic

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:25:59 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor development model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people were still working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4 and now with 7.x

Re: understanding freebsd development logic

2009-02-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 14:25:59 -0800, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: is the idea to make each version 'as good as possible' because it would still be useful for older machines? or is it that later versions can utilize code from the earlier versions? or is it something else? I hope it

Re: understanding freebsd development logic

2009-02-23 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 02:25:59PM -0800, prad wrote: i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor development model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people were still working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4 and now with 7.x underway, there is work

Re: understanding freebsd development logic

2009-02-23 Thread Adam Vandemore
prad wrote: i am puzzled by what seems to be almost a parallel processor development model that exists with freebsd. when 7 came out people were still working on 6.3 i think it was with the aim of going to 6.4 and now with 7.x underway, there is work being do for 8 (for which you can get a

Re: hp TC4200 tablet

2009-02-23 Thread prad
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:38:06 +0100 Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: so it is possible that fbsd7.1 may not be able to handle the tablet. That's not really a FreeBSD problem, but more an Xorg issue. but we can't even do a wacdump from the console. doesn't that suggest that fbsd7

Re: Top returning 0.0% cpu usage

2009-02-23 Thread mojo fms
last pid: 11406; load averages: 0.07, 0.02, 0.00 up 2+20:54:15 15:36:35 23 processes: 1 running, 22 sleeping CPU: 0.0% user, 0.0% nice, 0.0% system, 0.0% interrupt, 0.0% idle That is what it is displaying, the load adverage isnt it, its just the CPU stats. It

Re: understanding freebsd development logic

2009-02-23 Thread prad
On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:39:39 +0200 Giorgos Keramidas keram...@ceid.upatras.gr wrote: The thesis of Niklas Saers is a bit dated now, but it is a wonderful document and it answers this question (including a few others too). I think it will be an interesting read for you: most certainly!!

xorg configuration

2009-02-23 Thread Stanley Wright
Hi All, Have worked on this for a week or more with no success. Running xorgconfig as root gives a kde gui that works but once I click anything the screen just goes to fuzzy vertical lines. The only other config that really works makes the screen and icons really HUGE. Could you point me in

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 04:09:51PM -0500, Jerry wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:50:41 -0700 Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: [snip] I can see both sides of this argument. Maybe we need to split up FreeBSD documentation into two domains, similarly to the way FreeBSD software is split

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:50:41 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:15:35PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: Documenting such local 'hacks' in the Handbook is a bit like rubber stamping them with the official 'recommended by FreeBSD' seal of approval. I am not

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:09:51 -0500, Jerry ges...@yahoo.com wrote: Specifically, what is it we are uncomfortable putting in the handbook? More importantly, what good is a handbook if it is not complete? That's one way of looking at it. The obsessive compulsive perfectionist perspective is that

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:52:00 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 06:11:55PM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:19:30 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: alpine works fine I know. That's why I am not in favor

Re: What's the simplest way to get a fresh copy of the source code for the system

2009-02-23 Thread Erich Dollansky
Hi, On Mon, 2009-02-23 at 01:15 +, af300...@gmail.com wrote: My churches web server is having problems compiling world for FreeBSD 7.0-p10 (I believe I just did the csup last night). It gets to this point and then stops with this error: so, you did what you are supposed to do to get

Re: xorg configuration

2009-02-23 Thread Vasadi I. Claudiu Florin
hmm, I'm guessing here, but here goes 1.I see you have the default vga driver, try using the one for your specific video card (dnt ask me, I dnt know wich one it is for intel video cards) 1.1 Still, that should not be the problem 2. Does this happen at all video resolutions/Hz refresh

FreeBSD multiboot question.

2009-02-23 Thread Overdorf, Sam
I have three partitions loaded with different versions of FreeBSD. I have the multiboot option working and it shows the following: F1 FreeBSD F2 FreeBSD F3 FreeBSD Is there a way that I can change the description from FreeBSD to something like: F1 FreeBSD 7.1 F2 FreeBSD 7.0 F3 FreeBSD 6.4

Re: FreeBSD multiboot question.

2009-02-23 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Overdorf, Sam sam.overd...@intel.com wrote: I have three partitions loaded with different versions of FreeBSD. I have the multiboot option working and it shows the following: F1 FreeBSD F2 FreeBSD F3 FreeBSD Is there a way that I can change the description

Re: FreeBSD multiboot question.

2009-02-23 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:35:00 -0800, Overdorf, Sam sam.overd...@intel.com wrote: Is there a way that I can change the description from FreeBSD to something like: F1 FreeBSD 7.1 F2 FreeBSD 7.0 F3 FreeBSD 6.4 As far as I understood, the names displayed are generic ones. In order to change

Re: FreeBSD multiboot question.

2009-02-23 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:35:00 -0800, Overdorf, Sam sam.overd...@intel.com wrote: I have three partitions loaded with different versions of FreeBSD. I have the multiboot option working and it shows the following: F1 FreeBSD F2 FreeBSD F3 FreeBSD Is there a way that I can change the

Re: xorg-fbserver / xorg-server fails upgrade

2009-02-23 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 03:27:15PM +0100, Ewald Jenisch wrote: Hi, While upgrading a machine during upgrade of /usr/ports/x11-servers/xorg-vfbserver/work/xorg-server-1.5.3 the build process fails with the errors given below. Same problem here. glxdriswrast.c:39:39: error:

Re: a strange question about OSs

2009-02-23 Thread Valentin Bud
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote: - Show quoted text - On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 03:17:44PM +0200, Reko Turja wrote: -- From: Redd Vinylene reddvinyl...@gmail.com Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 11:55

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:25:22AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: I think this is already done with doc = wiki stuff. I am not very good at writing wiki documentation, but I have installed a Wiki as the starting page of my laptop's lighttpd instance, in an effort to learn more about wiki

Re: hi

2009-02-23 Thread Chad Perrin
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 02:28:51AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote: On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 12:52:00 -0700, Chad Perrin per...@apotheon.com wrote: Wait -- what? Keeping it out of the core isn't good enough . . . ? I'm sorry Chad. I lost you there. What 'core' are we talking about? I'm

Re: apache an display order/prefrence of directories to files

2009-02-23 Thread Mel
On Thursday 19 February 2009 21:55:19 Warren Liddell wrote: I have a lot of various files in a dir i share to a few relatives an friends and i want Directories shown first in Alphabetical order, then files .. is there a way to specify this in apache ? Im running Apache 1.3.41 on FreeBSD

Re: Accessing /dev/lpt0 in a Jail

2009-02-23 Thread Mel
On Monday 23 February 2009 12:32:39 Jasvinder S. Bahra wrote: [r...@pearl ~]# ls -al /dev/lpt* crw--- 1 root wheel0, 53 Feb 23 21:11 /dev/lpt0 crw--- 1 root wheel0, 54 Feb 23 21:11 /dev/lpt0.ctl I need the device nodes to have 0660 permissions and root:cups ownership.

Re: What is correct way to enable watchdog?

2009-02-23 Thread Mel
On Monday 23 February 2009 12:11:38 Peter Steele wrote: We assumed this would give us a watchdog timeout of 300 seconds (5 minutes), meaning a system would not reboot unless it is non-responsive for five minutes. No, meaning, if a system is unresponsive for 300 seconds, action will be taken.