Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Adam Vande More
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Hi, I am not sure but as per some internet guide, I have configured the bridge on Freebsd(7) Machine with two LAN cards on it I have compiled my KERNEL with (device if_bridge) and then added code to rc.conf cloned_interfaces=bridge0

Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I connected two linux PCs with these two interfaces (sk0 and sk1) and tried to ping between them but didnt get any success.configuration seems to be ok, but still no traffice is being passed. Can any one give any sugestion ? Stupid question, but if you connect the 2 Linux boxes directly

Re: Kernel Compile issue

2009-03-02 Thread Paige Thompson
Also I wanted to note how I got to this problem: [root@ /usr/src]# make buildkernel config=GENERIC 2 error.log [root@ /usr/src]# uname -a FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 19:59:52 UTC 2008 r...@logan.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 [root@ /usr/src]#

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-02 Thread FBSD UG
On 28 feb 2009, at 17:26, Bernt Hansson wrote: Sean Cavanaugh said the following on 2009-02-28 16:25: - From: Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net Sent: Saturday, February 28, 2009 9:32 AM To: FBSD UG free...@rgbaz.eu Cc: freebsd-questions

Kernel Compile issue

2009-03-02 Thread Paige Thompson
[root@ /usr/src]# head error.log /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/genassym.c:35:23: error: sys/cdefs.h: No such file or directory /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/genassym.c:36: error: expected declaration specifiers or '...' before string constant /usr/src/sys/i386/i386/genassym.c:36: warning: data definition has no

RE: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Faizan ul haq Muhammad
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 15:28:10 +0700 From: o...@cs.ait.ac.th To: faiz...@hotmail.com CC: fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; fb...@a1poweruser.com Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Hi, I connected two linux

Re: Kernel Compile issue

2009-03-02 Thread Michael Powell
Paige Thompson wrote: Also I wanted to note how I got to this problem: [root@ /usr/src]# make buildkernel config=GENERIC 2 error.log [snip] cd /usr/obj and rm -rf usr before trying again. Then cd /usr/src and do: make buildkernel KERNCONF=nameofsomeconffile another example: make

OT: what is the X11 equiv of /dev/null

2009-03-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
I often want to run applications from my PC (actually the dual boot partition on my desktop 7.1) on one of the X11 capable 7.1 machine at work (identical configs except for dual booting) and want to be able to open applications (like deluge) on the work machine that require a X11 server... I

Re: Kernel Compile issue

2009-03-02 Thread Paige Thompson
Mike, I think you misread what I sent, however I noticed that you used 'KERNELCONF' instead of 'config' (as I noted) but I still get the same error. I want to say the issue must have something to do with the fact that there's no environment variables that specify the include directories. FWIW

Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, Are you using properly crossed cables? Isnt it enough check for the that two linux can ping each other.. Yes and no. You must used crossed Ethernet cable between your FreeBSD bridge and each of your Linux boxes. As someone suggested, what is ifconfig saying on the FreeBSD box? You

Re: Kernel Compile issue

2009-03-02 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 01:28:59 -0800, Paige Thompson erra...@devel.ws wrote: Mike, I think you misread what I sent, however I noticed that you used 'KERNELCONF' instead of 'config' (as I noted) but I still get the same error. Correct is KERNCONF=name of config file as parameter for buildkernel

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-02 Thread FBSD UG
On 1 mrt 2009, at 07:37, Charles Oppermann wrote: That depends on where you are domiciled. Under certain scenarios, simply open the box, or installing the software constitutes acceptance of the EULA. Yes I'm aware of that, but that kind of agreement isn't valid in Sweden. That would

Re: Kernel Compile issue

2009-03-02 Thread Paige Thompson
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Paige Thompson erra...@devel.ws wrote: You're right, my source tree is incomplete: # pwd /usr/src/sys # cd sys sys: No such file or directory. # Thank you that helps a lot actually, it probably has something to do with the source archives that I downloaded

Re: Kernel Compile issue

2009-03-02 Thread Paige Thompson
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:44 AM, Paige Thompson erra...@devel.ws wrote: PS: it seems just straight up mget * works x.x k! satisfactory enough... On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Paige Thompson erra...@devel.ws wrote: You're right, my source tree is incomplete: # pwd /usr/src/sys # cd sys

Re: Kernel Compile issue

2009-03-02 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 02:43:01 -0800, Paige Thompson erra...@devel.ws wrote: You're right, my source tree is incomplete: # pwd /usr/src/sys # cd sys sys: No such file or directory. # I had a similar problem some years ago and couldn't find out what the reason was - the magic of this mailing

FreeBSD and Xen in paravirtualized mode

2009-03-02 Thread Redd Vinylene
Why doesn't FreeBSD support Xen in paravirtualized mode? Imagine the increase in ISPs being able to offer FreeBSD to its customers. I just got my heart broken today: http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3191/ -- http://www.myspace.com/soultanisyourfriend

RE: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Faizan ul haq Muhammad
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:35:33 +0700 From: o...@cs.ait.ac.th To: faiz...@hotmail.com CC: fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; fb...@a1poweruser.com Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Hi, Are you using

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-02 Thread Julian Wissmann
Oh, that didn't go to the list, did it. I should actually read where I send stuff to, well, anyway. Suse was bought by Novell a while back as you probably know, but as far as I know the Suse team still is located in Nuernberg over here in Germany. They're programmers/geeks whichever you

Re: FreeBSD and Xen in paravirtualized mode

2009-03-02 Thread Ivan Voras
Redd Vinylene wrote: Why doesn't FreeBSD support Xen in paravirtualized mode? Imagine the increase in ISPs being able to offer FreeBSD to its customers. I just got my heart broken today: http://forum.slicehost.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=3191/ Perhaps you could help fund the development

Re: FreeBSD and Xen in paravirtualized mode

2009-03-02 Thread Outback Dingo
see http://www.rootbsd.net slicehost is uhmmm well i wount comment. On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 7:52 PM, Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org wrote: Redd Vinylene wrote: Why doesn't FreeBSD support Xen in paravirtualized mode? Imagine the increase in ISPs being able to offer FreeBSD to its customers.

Re: ata-raid.c patch for ICH7 RAID1

2009-03-02 Thread Omer Faruk Sen
I can't actually apply this patch to FreeBSD 6.3-RELEASE. It seems ataraid is something not to be used in FreeBSD so I have started to use gmirror instead. Only downside of it is there are 2 disks shown in boot loader not one so if F1 (first disk goes) goes you have to manually select other disk

Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Adam Vande More
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:35:33 +0700 From: o...@cs.ait.ac.th To: faiz...@hotmail.com CC: fbsd.questi...@rachie.is-a-geek.net; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; fb...@a1poweruser.com Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

Re: SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory?

2009-03-02 Thread Mikhail Goriachev
Andrew Moran wrote: [...] Has anyone heard of this? Or any pointers on what I can do to figure out what is causing it? Your advice is much appreciated. As an alternative: You could try mail/mimedefang. It calls spamassassin to evaluate an e-mail but without having it running all the

RE: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Faizan ul haq Muhammad
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:48:40 -0600 From: amvandem...@gmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:35:33 +0700 From: o...@cs.ait.ac.th

Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Adam Vande More
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:48:40 -0600 From: amvandem...@gmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 16:35:33 +0700

read BSD format disk from Mac OSX

2009-03-02 Thread Tsu-Fan Cheng
Hi all, I format a ext disk (UFS) and transfer some files into it, hand it over to my friend who has a macbook. He complained the macbook can't read it. I don't have a mac on hand, I wonder if there is any utility that will help a mac to read a BSD, thanks!!

RE: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Faizan ul haq Muhammad
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:05:09 -0600 From: amvandem...@gmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:48:40 -0600 From: amvandem...@gmail.com CC:

Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Adam Vande More
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:05:09 -0600 From: amvandem...@gmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 07:48:40 -0600

RE: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Faizan ul haq Muhammad
Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:28:01 -0600 From: amvandem...@gmail.com CC: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled) Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: Date: Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:05:09 -0600 From: amvandem...@gmail.com

Re: read BSD format disk from Mac OSX

2009-03-02 Thread David Kelly
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:16:02AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi all, I format a ext disk (UFS) and transfer some files into it, hand it over to my friend who has a macbook. He complained the macbook can't read it. I don't have a mac on hand, I wonder if there is any utility that will

port / portupgrade hangs

2009-03-02 Thread Pieter Donche
Sometimes (not often) when installing ports from the ports collection or upgrading ports (via portupgrade -R) when fetching some needed tar.gz file, the fetch hangs, just like now: = rdiff-backup-1.2.6.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in /usr/ports/distfiles/. = Attempting to fetch from

How to repeat playing mp3 with mpg123

2009-03-02 Thread lacalling
Since mpg123 does not support repeat model, i tried to write a script to play mp3 repeatedly. I tried bash like this for((;;)) do mpg123 [mp3] done but it keeps running new mpg123 in background . but mpg123 [mp3] in foreground cant be terminated by control C Could anyone

Re: port / portupgrade hangs

2009-03-02 Thread Kent Stewart
On Monday 02 March 2009 06:54:21 am Pieter Donche wrote: Sometimes (not often) when installing ports from the ports collection or upgrading ports (via portupgrade -R) when fetching some needed tar.gz file, the fetch hangs, just like now: = rdiff-backup-1.2.6.tar.gz doesn't seem to exist in

Re: rc.conf and starting scripts

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 07:14:17PM -0800, gahn wrote: Hi all: I have some starting scripts under some other directories other than /etc/rc.d. How could I utilize the rc.conf file to start them when the system boots up? The default location for rc.conf is /etc/rc.d only and the knob

Re: Bridging-(How to test and verify that bridging is enabled)

2009-03-02 Thread Adam Vande More
Faizan ul haq Muhammad wrote: i noted that, following information is missing member: sk0 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 1 priority 128 path cost 200 member: sk1 flags=143LEARNING,DISCOVER,AUTOEDGE,AUTOPTP ifmaxaddr 0 port 2 priority 128 path cost

Re: How to repeat playing mp3 with mpg123

2009-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I tried bash like this for((;;)) do mpg123 [mp3] done but it keeps running new mpg123 in background . while true;do mpg123 filename;done ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Regarding DVD/CD request

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Rees
2009/3/2 RAMASUBRAMANIAN VENKITESWARAN ramanvenkatam...@gmail.com: SIr,     Thank You very much Ah, meant to ask you. Do you want the 32-bit version or the 64-bit? If you want to use accelerated graphics, Java, or flash you're better off with the 32-bit version. If you're happy with the 32-bit

bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread new_guy
Hi, We normally use OpenBSD, but would like to try FreeBSD on a test system. Usually, when updating from one OpenBSD release to another, we do so by downloading the latest bsd.rd and booting from that to complete the install. Our machines have no optical drives. Does FreeBSD have a similar

Re: OT: what is the X11 equiv of /dev/null

2009-03-02 Thread Modulok
I was thinking is there someway to direct a X11 app to target the X11 equiv of /dev/null ? ...what? What problem are you trying to solve, exactly? -Modulok- On 3/2/09, Aryeh M. Friedman aryeh.fried...@gmail.com wrote: I often want to run applications from my PC (actually the dual boot

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Ricardo Jesus
new_guy wrote: Hi, We normally use OpenBSD, but would like to try FreeBSD on a test system. Usually, when updating from one OpenBSD release to another, we do so by downloading the latest bsd.rd and booting from that to complete the install. Our machines have no optical drives. Does FreeBSD have

Re: Root shell

2009-03-02 Thread new_guy
RW-15 wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:16:50 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: pdksh is statically linked and I don't know if bash is. It's a build option. Seems root should have a static shell always... otherwise, all bets are off as some of the shared libs may be

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread new_guy
You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd). Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine, formats the hard drive, setups root and installs the operating system over ftp. -- View this message in context:

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:36:39AM -0800, new_guy wrote: Hi, We normally use OpenBSD, but would like to try FreeBSD on a test system. Usually, when updating from one OpenBSD release to another, we do so by downloading the latest bsd.rd and booting from that to complete the install. Our

Re: Root shell

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:55:39AM -0800, new_guy wrote: RW-15 wrote: On Sun, 1 Mar 2009 16:16:50 + Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: pdksh is statically linked and I don't know if bash is. It's a build option. Seems root should have a static shell

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Ricardo Jesus
new_guy wrote: You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd). Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine, formats the hard drive, setups root and installs the operating system over ftp. If that's what you want I definitely misunderstood.

load average and some built-in monitoring mechanism

2009-03-02 Thread Zbigniew Szalbot
Hi there, My machine has recently been taken down by (most likely) runaway java process. The box had to be rebooted as there was no remote access to it but I am not able to find anything useful in logs to confirm whether it was java. Is there a tool that would enable me to automatically turn on

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install'

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 06:19:57PM +, Ricardo Jesus wrote: new_guy wrote: You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd). Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine, formats the hard drive, setups root and installs the operating

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:02:25AM -0800, new_guy wrote: You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd). That is called md (memory disk) in FreeBSD land. Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine, formats the hard drive, setups

Re: MySQL / php differ

2009-03-02 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Matthew Seaman wrote: Actually, you may only need to recompile databases/php5-mysql (possibly plus some dependencies) and then restart apache. If your DB is on the same machine as where you're running phpMyAdmin, then you will have the 5.0.77 client libraries already installed and recompiling

Re: read BSD format disk from Mac OSX

2009-03-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:16:02AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi all, I format a ext disk (UFS) and transfer some files into it, hand it over to my friend who has a macbook. He complained the macbook can't read it. I don't have a mac on hand, I wonder if there is any utility that will

Re: bsd.rd for FreeBSD install

2009-03-02 Thread Ricardo Jesus
Jerry McAllister wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:02:25AM -0800, new_guy wrote: You misunderstand. I want to install FreeBSD from a ramdisk image (bsd.rd). That is called md (memory disk) in FreeBSD land. Is that possible? It's basically a small kernel that boots the machine, formats

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Rees
2009/3/2 Julian Wissmann julianwissm...@gmail.com: Oh, that didn't go to the list, did it. I should actually read where I send stuff to, well, anyway. Suse was bought by Novell a while back as you probably know, but as far as I know the Suse team still is located in Nuernberg over here in

who took my cd drive?

2009-03-02 Thread prad
i'm trying to install fbsd71 on a ibm thinkpad i1200 via cdrom. it boots fine from the cd, but then when i choose cd for media it says No CD/DVD devices found! huh?? how so? what can be done? (i can install through nfs so it is not a lost cause by any means, but what's going on here?) -- In

Re: MySQL / php differ | Solved

2009-03-02 Thread Jos Chrispijn
Problem solved. What I did is: - using Matthew's pkg_info -rx php5-mysql - after that Aryeh's solution on the php5-mysql port thanks for your help, Jos ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

backup msdos slice

2009-03-02 Thread Jerry
Hi, I hate to start this potential storm, but... I have a machine with both an MS and FreeBSD slices on it. I can easily back up and recover the FreeBSD slices using dump(8)/restore(8) But, that won't work for the MS slice (which happens to be FAT32 on this machine) because there is no

Re: Linux binary wants GLIBC_2.4, GLIBCXX_3.4.9

2009-03-02 Thread Edward Ruggeri
Thanks very much! Will this actually change behavior of the Linux kernel module, or is it just supposed to trick new versions of linux_base to build? -- Ned Ruggeri On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Pieter de Goeje pie...@degoeje.nl wrote: On Monday 02 March 2009, Edward Ruggeri wrote: I am

Anyone know SunFire hardware

2009-03-02 Thread Paul Schmehl
We have FreeBSD installed on a SunFire box running two AMD Opteron processors. I was upgrading to 7.1 STABLE on Friday, and after installing the kernel I rebooted. Now the box is completely unusable. Does anyone know how to get a SunFire box to boot from the CD ROM? Any changes I make to the

Re: backup msdos slice

2009-03-02 Thread Wojciech Puchar
So, what I would like is something that would dump the MS slice to a FreeBSD file or media written in the FreeBSD world and that I could then pick out files and directories somewhat like I do using restore on a dump file.I suspect that tar might not keep enough meta information to be right

Re: who took my cd drive?

2009-03-02 Thread Tyson Boellstorff
On Monday 02 March 2009 12:52:58 prad wrote: i'm trying to install fbsd71 on a ibm thinkpad i1200 via cdrom. it boots fine from the cd, but then when i choose cd for media it says No CD/DVD devices found! huh?? how so? what can be done? (i can install through nfs so it is not a lost cause

Re: who took my cd drive?

2009-03-02 Thread Glen Barber
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 1:52 PM, prad p...@towardsfreedom.com wrote: i'm trying to install fbsd71 on a ibm thinkpad i1200 via cdrom. it boots fine from the cd, but then when i choose cd for media it says No CD/DVD devices found! huh?? how so? what can be done? (i can install through nfs so

Re: backup msdos slice

2009-03-02 Thread Roland Smith
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 02:10:42PM -0500, Jerry wrote: Hi, I hate to start this potential storm, but... I have a machine with both an MS and FreeBSD slices on it. I can easily back up and recover the FreeBSD slices using dump(8)/restore(8) But, that won't work for the MS slice (which

Re: How to repeat playing mp3 with mpg123

2009-03-02 Thread cpghost
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:55:29PM +0800, lacalling wrote: Since mpg123 does not support repeat model, i tried to write a script to play mp3 repeatedly. I tried bash like this for((;;)) do mpg123 [mp3] done but it keeps running new mpg123 in background . You asked for

Re: Anyone know SunFire hardware

2009-03-02 Thread new_guy
Paul Schmehl-2 wrote: I've done some Googling, and the most common answer seems to be hit STOP+A, but there is no STOP key on an Intel keyboard. Is there a magic incantation that will work? Maybe the entrails of a young goat? Ctrl + Break I'm sticking with OpenBSD... BTW. --

Re: OT: what is the X11 equiv of /dev/null

2009-03-02 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Modulok wrote: I was thinking is there someway to direct a X11 app to target the X11 equiv of /dev/null ? ...what? What problem are you trying to solve, exactly? -Modulok- I'd have to assume he wants to call a remote X program from his terminal and not have the program's output clutter it

Re: who took my cd drive?

2009-03-02 Thread prad
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:46:27 -0500 Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Try the atapicam kernel module. i pushed 6 to get loader prompt and there did boot atapicam but got elf32_loadfile: can't load module before kernel which i thought was weird since in the help boot it says if you

Re: libpthread not found

2009-03-02 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Mar 01), Michael Powell said: m.borsat...@alice.it wrote: thanks ... but ... how? now I don't get the first message; but the second tells me that a library is missing, but it is present. anyway I' prepared a very simple /etc/libmap.conf like this: #

Re: Cron Not Sending Mail

2009-03-02 Thread APseudoUtopia
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 9:03 PM, Frank Shute fr...@shute.org.uk wrote: On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:24:47PM -0500, APseudoUtopia wrote: Cron is not sending output as emails. I noticed this when I stopped seeing the output of a backup script in my daily email. I thought there was a problem with

Re: SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory?

2009-03-02 Thread Mel
On Sunday 01 March 2009 19:23:33 Andrew Moran wrote: Hey guys, After having lots of problems with memory and 7.1/ZFS, I first switched everything to 64-bit (amd64), and then I had a new problem, so I eventually gave up and switched back to UFS (saying on amd64 distro/ports), but I'm still

Re: OT: what is the X11 equiv of /dev/null

2009-03-02 Thread Aryeh M. Friedman
Kevin Kinsey wrote: Modulok wrote: I was thinking is there someway to direct a X11 app to target the X11 equiv of /dev/null ? ...what? What problem are you trying to solve, exactly? -Modulok- I'd have to assume he wants to call a remote X program from his terminal and not have the program's

Re: Linux binary wants GLIBC_2.4, GLIBCXX_3.4.9

2009-03-02 Thread Pieter de Goeje
On Monday 02 March 2009, Edward Ruggeri wrote: Thanks very much! Will this actually change behavior of the Linux kernel module, or is it just supposed to trick new versions of linux_base to build? Yes, it changes behaviour. It enables a couple of features new in the Linux 2.6 kernel. Glibc

unhappy XOrg upgrade ate the linux version of libuuid.so.1

2009-03-02 Thread Steve Franks
I think. My linux packages stopped working. Anyone else experienced/verified/fixed this behavior? error while loading shared libraries: /usr/X11R6/lib/libuuid.so.1: ELF file OS ABI invalid portupgrade *linux* gives ** Listing the failed packages (-:ignored / *:skipped / !:failed) -

Re: unhappy XOrg upgrade ate the linux version of libuuid.so.1

2009-03-02 Thread Eitan Adler
20090121: AFFECTS: users of devel/linux-glib2, emulation/linux_base-f4 AUTHOR: b...@freebsd.org Glib2 now is incorporated to emulation/linux_base-fc4 (it has always been a part of more recent linux base ports). All users should deinstall devel/linux-glib2 and then deinstall/reinstall

Re: ACPI issue on my Toshiba laptop

2009-03-02 Thread Mel
On Sunday 01 March 2009 19:25:44 Michael A. Alestock wrote: Hi all, As you're already aware, there've been known issues with ACPI running on some laptops. For instance, mine is a Toshiba Satellite A105-S2051. When I first installed FreeBSD v6.3 I would get the following error... ***

Re: read BSD format disk from Mac OSX

2009-03-02 Thread Polytropon
I don't want to be impolite, but your solution suggestion is unneccessarily complicated, involving something that isn't needed at all. Let me explain: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 08:41:10 -0600, David Kelly dke...@hiwaay.net wrote: On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 09:16:02AM -0500, Tsu-Fan Cheng wrote: Hi all,

Re: backup msdos slice

2009-03-02 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009 14:10:42 -0500, Jerry jerr...@msu.edu wrote: So, what I would like is something that would dump the MS slice to a FreeBSD file or media written in the FreeBSD world and that I could then pick out files and directories somewhat like I do using restore on a dump file. There

Re: SpamAssassin/Perl eating enormous amounts of memory?

2009-03-02 Thread Andrew Moran
On Mar 2, 2009, at 3:39 PM, Mel wrote: This is hard to debug, but I'd first toggle the PERL_MALLOC option in the configuration dialog for the perl port. If this doesn't solve the problem, then you'd have to get a ktrace to get some indication of what is allocating the memory. Thank

Re: Ports on Macbook

2009-03-02 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:22:50 +0100, Bernt Hansson be...@bah.homeip.net wrote: FBSD UG skrev: You're not buying the software, you buy a license to use it on one Apple computer. Mostly semantics, if I name my computer APPLE Then it's legal to install. Crap, if I buy it I can install

Re: unhappy XOrg upgrade ate the linux version of libuuid.so.1

2009-03-02 Thread Steve Franks
read UPDATING next time Were I about to run buildkernel/buildworld, I would read UPDATING. I don't recall there being an UPDATING in /usr/ports. Perhaps the documentation regarding this should be updated. One tries not to rely on the mailing list, but when all knowledge is tribal, what

Re: Cron Not Sending Mail

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Sun, Mar 01, 2009 at 02:24:47PM -0500, APseudoUtopia wrote: Cron is not sending output as emails. I noticed this when I stopped seeing the output of a backup script in my daily email. I thought there was a problem with the backup script - but no, it's cron not sending the emails. I had

Re: Cron Not Sending Mail

2009-03-02 Thread Glen Barber
On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 2:24 PM, APseudoUtopia apseudouto...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] # # User www's crontab # Note, I also tried removing the MAILTO to no avail # MAILTO=root # m     h       dom     mon     dow     cmd *       *       *       *       *       echo Hello [snip] 1.)

Re: unhappy XOrg upgrade ate the linux version of libuuid.so.1

2009-03-02 Thread matt donovan
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 10:02 PM, Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.comwrote: read UPDATING next time Were I about to run buildkernel/buildworld, I would read UPDATING. I don't recall there being an UPDATING in /usr/ports. Perhaps the documentation regarding this should be updated. One

Re: unhappy XOrg upgrade ate the linux version of libuuid.so.1

2009-03-02 Thread Warren Block
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, Steve Franks wrote: read UPDATING next time Were I about to run buildkernel/buildworld, I would read UPDATING. I don't recall there being an UPDATING in /usr/ports. Perhaps the documentation regarding this should be updated. Section 4.5.4 seems to cover it:

Re: unhappy XOrg upgrade ate the linux version of libuuid.so.1

2009-03-02 Thread Steve Franks
There has always been a /usr/ports/UPDATING atleast as far back as 6.0 is when I noticed itbut that's when I started using FreeBSD Well, I'll be d###'ed. So there is. Makes sense, I guess. Wonder how many other UPDATING's are floating around the system... Steve

Re: unhappy XOrg upgrade ate the linux version of libuuid.so.1

2009-03-02 Thread Frank Shute
On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 10:21:21PM -0700, Steve Franks wrote: There has always been a /usr/ports/UPDATING atleast as far back as 6.0 is when I noticed itbut that's when I started using FreeBSD Well, I'll be d###'ed. So there is. Makes sense, I guess. Wonder how many other UPDATING's