Re: Problem with installing acroread8

2009-03-12 Thread Boris Samorodov
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 05:35:53 +0530 manish jain wrote: I got another problem I can't solve on my own. I was trying to install acroread8 from /usr/ports and came up with the following : === Generating temporary packing list === Checking if x11-toolkits/linux-pango already installed cd

Re: Release-7.0 named and dhcpd

2009-03-12 Thread Olivier Nicole
No, this is my first attempt with named and dhcpd. Each one seems to be fine separately but getting them to talk has been a stumbling block. Then you'll have to share pieces of your configuration, so we can see what is going on there. Maybe also share the information that you used to set it

Re: port: multimedia/recordmydesktop

2009-03-12 Thread Alastair Hogge
On Wednesday 11 March 2009 15:35:15 Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Any experience or comments about the port multimedia/recordmydesktop? I can't access the web site http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/ that's why I'm asking; to the Cc'ed maintainer of the port: the web site mentioned in

dual boot FreeBSD and openBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all: My apologies if this is a newbie question, however, i'm trying to look beyond GRUB fixation. i'd like to do a dual boot installation of FreeBSD and openBSD, without using GRUB or LILO. Any suggestions on the bootloader to use ? What would your suggestion be, if i'm trying to dual boot

OpenLDAP 2.4.13/14/15: Need long time to autheticate since update from 2.4.11

2009-03-12 Thread O. Hartmann
Hello, since we updated ports on our FreeBSD boxes and so OpenLDAP from 2.4.11 - 2.4.15 and its sibblings authetication on the first attempt from a client to the server takes a long time. The phenomenon is on several flavours of FreeBSD the same (7.1-STABLE/i386 + amd64 UP and SMP and FreeBSD

USB KVM Raritan DKX2-232

2009-03-12 Thread Andrey Urtaykin
Hi all This KVM uses only one USB connector for both mouse and keyboard. I have several servers with different hardware and FreeBSD from 6.2 to 7.1, and no one works properly the problem is: input doesn`t work at all OR/AND mouse moves interpretend as keyboard pressings OR/AND input with

USB hub and USB to Serial cable on FreeBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Valentin Bud
Hello community, Do you know if i can get FreeBSD 7.0 to see USB to serial (RS232) cables if they are connected to a USB hub? thank you, v -- network warrior since 2005 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
The ACM Queue (1 May 2004) article by Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems is very insightful. There is no such thing as Free (Software) lunch Please take a look at http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1005066 In 2009, you would like your product (esp infrastructure product or platform) to reach out

Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
Hello I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix version, much less a command-line version (the download script will run on a non-X FreeBSD 6.3 server). Do you know of an

[News] Dabber Newsletter - March 2009

2009-03-12 Thread Daniel Daboczy - DABBER
Dabber Newsletter New collaboration with Berns Salonger We are very proud to present a new collaboration Dabber has started collaboration with Berns Salonger, a critically acclaime= d famous Swedish landmark and nightclub in the heart of Stockholm. The nigh= tclub has a vast

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:12:48 +0100 Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. ? The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix version /usr/ports/security/tor/ Andreas --

Re: dual boot FreeBSD and openBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi, Did you tried BSD Boot Manager? http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/boot-blocks.html Laci From: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org To: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Thursday, March 12, 2009 2:14:11 PM Subject: dual boot

Re: Ports Collection

2009-03-12 Thread Dánielisz László
Dear Mario Palmer, Did you tried to install the latest FreeBSD version instead of 6.4? Did you updated your ports tree before running the make command (eg. with cvsup)? You can also try installing gnome2 via pkg_add -r [-v] Laci From: Mario PNH

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:42:53 +0100, Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net wrote: /usr/ports/security/tor/ Thanks Andeas. Up to now, I only used the Tor client for Windows that comes with Privoxy, so never used Tor as-is, and never on the command line. If someone's used to using Tor, I have a couple of

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. so tell me address and i will download and send it ;) The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix there is tor for unix in ports. tor works fine i used it a lot and

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Thanks Andeas. Up to now, I only used the Tor client for Windows that comes with Privoxy, so never used Tor as-is, and never on the command line. If someone's used to using Tor, I have a couple of questions. On FreeBSD, I intend to use it to run a Python script to connect to a remote web server

Re: USB hub and USB to Serial cable on FreeBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Do you know if i can get FreeBSD 7.0 to see USB to serial (RS232) cables if they are connected to a USB hub? load a proper USB-serial driver ;) man ucom ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: USB KVM Raritan DKX2-232

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This KVM uses only one USB connector for both mouse and keyboard. I have several servers with different hardware and FreeBSD from 6.2 to 7.1, and no one works properly the problem is: input doesn`t work at all OR/AND mouse moves interpretend as keyboard pressings OR/AND input with like CTRL

Re: Ldapadd Crashed with Segmentation Fault

2009-03-12 Thread Familie van der Schaft
I had the same problem (also slapcat ended with seg fault 11). And the siolution was to minimize the config options (i did not need all of them). I only build OpenLDAP with the SASL,BDB and PERL options and worked for me Reg,Danny - Original Message - From: Hong

Re: USB hub and USB to Serial cable on FreeBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Valentin Bud
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Do you know if i can get FreeBSD 7.0 to see USB to serial (RS232) cables if they are connected to a USB hub? load a proper USB-serial driver ;) man ucom Thanks for the tip Wojciech. I just wonder if

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Ross Cameron
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:08 PM, Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:42:53 +0100, Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net wrote: /usr/ports/security/tor/ Thanks Andeas. Up to now, I only used the Tor client for Windows that comes with Privoxy, so never used Tor as-is, and

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Rees
2009/3/12 Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr: Hello I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix version, much less a command-line version (the download script will run  on

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Chris Rees wrote: 2009/3/12 Gilles gilles.gana...@free.fr: Hello I'd like to download information from our competitor's web site, without their knowing it's from us. The Tor network works fine, but they don't seem to provide a *nix version, much less a command-line version (the download

Re: Ports Collection

2009-03-12 Thread FreeBSD List
Quick question Why are you using 6.4 instead of the latest (7.1)? Keep in mind that gnome2 has a lot of dependencies. That's just the nature of gnome2. When you say it didn't finish, did it stop and give you an error? When compiling gnome2 on FreeBSD, depending on your hardware, it can

HELP! After updateng DB46 to DB47 OpenLDAP 2.4.15 won't start anymore nor willing to perform backup

2009-03-12 Thread O. Hartmann
Today I updated several FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE servers and so I did on one of our OpenLDAP servers. The server was runnig OpenLDAP 2.4.15 with Cyrus SASL2 support and DB backend was DB 4.6 as from the ports. First, I made a backup from the OpenLDAP database via slapcat -l file.ldif. I updated

USB KVM Raritan DKX2-232

2009-03-12 Thread Andrey Urtaykin
Hi all This KVM (Raritan DKX2-232) uses only one USB connector for both mouse and keyboard. I have several servers with different hardware and FreeBSD from 6.2 to 7.1, and no one works properly the problem is: input doesn`t work at all OR/AND mouse moves interpretend as keyboard pressings

Re: USB KVM Raritan DKX2-232

2009-03-12 Thread Tim Judd
On Thu, 2009-03-12 at 10:47 +0300, Andrey Urtaykin wrote: Hi all This KVM uses only one USB connector for both mouse and keyboard. I have several servers with different hardware and FreeBSD from 6.2 to 7.1, and no one works properly the problem is: input doesn`t work at all OR/AND mouse

USB KVM Raritan DKX2-232

2009-03-12 Thread Andrey Urtaykin
Hi all This KVM (Raritan DKX2-232) uses only one USB connector for both mouse and keyboard. I have several servers with different hardware and FreeBSD from 6.2 to 7.1, and no one works properly the problem is: input doesn`t work at all OR/AND mouse moves interpretend as keyboard pressings

Re: torrent client traffic shaping question

2009-03-12 Thread RW
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 16:24:37 +1100 (EST) Ian Smith smi...@nimnet.asn.au wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:42:23 + RW rwmailli...@googlemail.com A traffic shaper could efficiently regulate downloads by proxying TCP. And even though PF does some limited TCP proxying, unfortunately

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread John Hendy
For Atheros, the exact chipset is still important... my Macbook's Atheros AR5008 (aka AR5418) does not work with the FBSD ath driver. i386 works if I ndisgen a kernel module from a WinXP driver, but I have not been able to ndisgen a module successfully for amd64, which is what I'd like to run. The

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Ashish SHUKLA
Saifi Khan writes: [...] Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work with FreeBSD ? Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets. -- Ashish SHUKLA pgpheKqJjP5PG.pgp Description: PGP

Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-12 Thread Jerry
I just updated from Bash-3.x to Bash-4.0. There appears to be a problem with the way Bash-4 interprits the following. This works fine on Bash-3.x: snippet #!/usr/bin/env bash GET_PATH=1 if $( which gpg2 ); then printf gpg2 located fi /snippet However, under Bash-4, it fail with this

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Ashish SHUKLA wrote: Saifi Khan writes: [...] Do Atheros, Ralink, Realtek, Intel PRO/Wireless chipset work with FreeBSD ? Atheros chipsets work great with FreeBSD 8-CURRENT at least. And the driver is FOSS and blob free. No ideas about other chipsets. --

Re: Free Pascal

2009-03-12 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Ian Fitzgerald i...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: Hello, On Fri, Mar 6, 2009 at 12:46 AM, Ian Fitzgerald i...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Ivan Rambius Ivanov wrote: cd /usr/ports/lang/fpc pkg_add -r fpc You should do # cd

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 13:40:54 +0200, Ross Cameron abal...@gmail.com wrote: Not to put a damper on everyone's fun but wouldn't just be easier to go to an internet cafe, run you're web scraper from a USB drive and leave? Not if the script will run for three days ;)

Re: acroread error with libgobject-2.0.so.0

2009-03-12 Thread David Banning
A first one is simple but it may not give any guarantee that the situation will not appear in the future: install those ports by hand. I'll advice the second one. Write down all linux applications you use (i.e. print/acroread8, net/skype, etc.) -- not infrastructure linux ports (they

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 07:16:15 -0500, Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz wrote: It probably is, but you're assuming his competitors know that he works for their competition, and, for that matter, that Giles is his real name, etc., etc. Exactly ;) ___

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:38:13 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: set up tor and use it as socks proxy with your browser and python script. You don't need privoxy for that. Thanks for the tip. I'll look into how to modify the Python script to use SOCKS instead.

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread RW
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:38:13 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: set up tor and use it as socks proxy with your browser and python script. You don't need privoxy for that. but isn't the point of of using privoxy to strip identifying information from http

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Gilles
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:37:26 +0100 (CET), Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: there is tor for unix in ports. tor works fine i used it a lot and stopped. Why - because it got to widely known and there are actually less secure than not using it at all.There are lots of hackers

nessus 3

2009-03-12 Thread GrimJow Espada
does nessus 3 included now inports for ver 7.1? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org

Re: pam_start error

2009-03-12 Thread Thierry Lacoste
in openpam_load_module(): no /usr/local/lib/pam_ldap.so found pam_start:system error FWIW I've just fought a couple hours with the same problem just to realize that I was using openldap-client-2.4.13 together with pam_ldap-1.8.4_1 built against openldap-client-2.4.15_1. Everything is in

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Doug Poland
Chris Whitehouse wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced members would like to recommend wherein . the WiFi

smartd errors again

2009-03-12 Thread Robin Becker
I'm seeing these sorts of messages in syslog output Mar 12 15:06:10 app3 smartd[519]: Device: /dev/ad4, 6 Currently unreadable (pending) sectors Mar 12 15:06:10 app3 smartd[519]: Device: /dev/ad4, 6 Offline uncorrectable sectors Mar 12 15:29:39 app3 kernel: ad4: FAILURE - READ_DMA

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Sam Leffler
5418 has worked for several years in HEAD. At this point the only ath chips not working in HEAD are those I haven't had access to (9280 and 9285) and 9280 support should go in shortly. About the only thing missing for ath is support for 11n (the 802.11 layer has supported 11n on other

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread John Hendy
I've never heard of HEAD... I'm pretty new to freebsd, so that could very well be why! Google is just giving me search results with people doing such and such with 'freebsd-head', not what it is. -John On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:54 AM, Sam Leffler s...@freebsd.org wrote: 5418 has worked for

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a laptop model (available in market) that experienced members would like to recommend wherein . the

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Bob Hall
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 03:04:05PM +, RW wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 11:38:13 +0100 (CET) Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: set up tor and use it as socks proxy with your browser and python script. You don't need privoxy for that. but isn't the point of of

Re: How to auto-detect a USB drive?

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Steele
I do something like this. Here's the rules I have in /usr/local/etc/devd.conf ... attach 10 { match device-name umass0; action sleep 2; /root/bin/usbstick_attach /dev/console; }; I've tried something similar and I'm having good success. I should be able accomplish what I need with

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread T.
Gilles wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 10:42:53 +0100, Andreas Rudisch cyb.@gmx.net wrote: /usr/ports/security/tor/ Thanks Andeas. Up to now, I only used the Tor client for Windows that comes with Privoxy, so never used Tor as-is, and never on the command line. If someone's used to using

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a

Bug in tcp wrappers?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris St Denis
I think I've found a bug in libwrap/tcpwrappers. Before filing an actual bug report I want to get some feedback here first. A hosts.allow file with ~1000 ips on a single line(Haven't experimented with other quantities yet), causes network daemons that use libwrap stop accepting incoming

sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-12 Thread David Banning
Here is the php line that gives the error; cat start_text | sed s/--maintext--/$test/ endtext give error; sed: 1: s/--maintext--/ Comment ...: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern where $test contains customer input from a website form There is something about the content of the text

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-12 Thread Kent Stewart
On Thursday 12 March 2009 10:34:36 am David Banning wrote: Here is the php line that gives the error; cat start_text | sed s/--maintext--/$test/ endtext give error; sed: 1: s/--maintext--/ Comment ...: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern where $test contains customer input from

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread T.
T. wrote: I just enable the control port locally and telnet to it. To get new circuits, on the control port (assuming you haven't set any authentication): AUTHENTICATESIGNAL NEWNYM Typo, that should be with a line break, obviously: AUTHENTICATE (you'll get a response, then).

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-12 Thread David Banning
Well, it might be because test is a command line function. It actually doesn't matter whether I use the word test or any other word as a variable ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Paul B. Mahol wrote: On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
You don't need privoxy for that. but isn't the point of of using privoxy to strip identifying information from http requests that would otherwise undermine tor. if python script won't put any extras - what info you want to strip out? ___

Re: Anonymizer tool like Tor?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
stopped. Why - because it got to widely known and there are actually less secure than not using it at all.There are lots of hackers that run modified tor that do analyzes/changes what going through. I stopped when i once used it on my bank webpage and got message about change of SSL key!!!

Error starting Snort via rc.d

2009-03-12 Thread FreeBSD
Hello list! I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 with a fresh ports tree. I just installed Snort 2.8.2.2_2 from the ports. The problem is that I always got an error when I want to start/stop/restart Snort via /usr/local/etc/rc.d/snort. I isolated the part of the script that is outputting the

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Paul B. Mahol
On 3/12/09, Maciej Suszko mac...@suszko.eu wrote: Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or additional PCMCIA card at all. Is there a

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/12/09, Maciej Suszko mac...@suszko.eu wrote: Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi all:

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Maciej Suszko
Paul B. Mahol one...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/13/09, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Maciej Suszko wrote: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@twincling.org wrote: Hi all: i've looked at tuxmobil, bsdgroup.de etc and i don't want to use ndiswrapper, or broadcom or

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
8.0 CURRENT i386. On 7.0, 7.1 and 7-STABLE there is still a little bit annoying message in dmesg on my nx7300, but i it's harmless as I suppose: acpi_tz0: _CRT value is absurd, ignored (256.0C) completely harmless, it's buggy ACPI. ___

Re: Error starting Snort via rc.d

2009-03-12 Thread Paul Schmehl
--On Thursday, March 12, 2009 14:12:03 -0500 FreeBSD free...@optiksecurite.com wrote: Hello list! I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 with a fresh ports tree. I just installed Snort 2.8.2.2_2 from the ports. The problem is that I always got an error when I want to start/stop/restart Snort via

Re: Error starting Snort via rc.d [SOLVED]

2009-03-12 Thread FreeBSD
Paul Schmehl a écrit : --On Thursday, March 12, 2009 14:12:03 -0500 FreeBSD free...@optiksecurite.com wrote: Hello list! I'm running FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 with a fresh ports tree. I just installed Snort 2.8.2.2_2 from the ports. The problem is that I always got an error when I want to

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Saifi Khan wrote: On Wed, 11 Mar 2009, Chris Whitehouse wrote: HP nc6320 (google RH383ET) - most things work, including wifi and ethernet, except for the following: From HP site, Network Integrated Broadcom NetLink Gigabit Ethernet PCI Controller (10/100/1000 NIC) Wireless

usb sound card

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi Does anyone have experience with a usb sound card? Are any of them supported in FreeBSD? Also [OT] what is the sound quality like? I find it hard to believe that a device that is available for around £1.50 can be as good as a PCI card costing quite a lot more. The onboard sound chip on

Re: Disabling write cache on eSATA enclosures

2009-03-12 Thread Dan
Besides the above cache problem, I am also experiencing timeouts with the enclosure which start happening after some time the enclosure is active. I am using it in raid 1 mode. This is Rosewill R2-RAID. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

What does df command use to get Used column?

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Steele
A typical df command looks like this: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0a 4.8G 2.0G 2.4G 46% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc /dev/mirror/gm0d 3.9G 88K 3.6G 0% /tmp /dev/mirror/gm0e 15G 79M 13G 1% /var /dev/ad4s3e 116G

Problem building ports : 1) abiword; 2) curl

2009-03-12 Thread Manish Jain
Hi all, I installed FreeBSD 7.1 on my x86 system a few days back and am having problems with building the following ports : 1) abiword 2) curl I am attaching the error messages below inline. 1) abiword : In file included from /usr/local/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtkactiongroup.h:34,

Problem with running acroread8/linux-nvu

2009-03-12 Thread Manish Jain
Hi all, I am running FreeBSD7.1 on an x86 system. When I try to run acroread8 or linux-nvu, both fail with the following error message : error while loading shared libraries: libgobject-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Interestingly, 'locate

Re: USB hub and USB to Serial cable on FreeBSD

2009-03-12 Thread Warren Block
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Valentin Bud wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Wojciech Puchar woj...@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl wrote: Do you know if i can get FreeBSD 7.0 to see USB to serial (RS232) cables if they are connected to a USB hub? load a proper USB-serial driver ;) man ucom

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
This machine uses wpi and bge. Both devices seem to work ok chucking files around a domestic network. at least for wired network i never had a problem with broadcom chips w...@pci0:8:0:0:class=0x028000 card=0x135c103c chip=0x42228086 rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel

Re: usb sound card

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Does anyone have experience with a usb sound card? Are any of them supported in FreeBSD? looks like it is - man snd_uaudio from manual it looks like it's standard of USB audio interfaces so all should work - unless some manufacturers don't comply to standards. simple get some laptop with

Re: What does df command use to get Used column?

2009-03-12 Thread Bruce Cran
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 15:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: A typical df command looks like this: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/mirror/gm0a 4.8G 2.0G 2.4G 46% / devfs 1.0K 1.0K 0B 100% /dev linprocfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc

Re: sed error unescaped newline inside substitute pattern

2009-03-12 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 01:34:36PM -0400, David Banning wrote: Here is the php line that gives the error; cat start_text | sed s/--maintext--/$test/ endtext give error; sed: 1: s/--maintext--/ Comment ...: unescaped newline inside substitute pattern where $test contains customer

Re: is there a laptop ?

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Hill
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, John Hendy wrote: I've never heard of HEAD... I'm pretty new to freebsd, so that could very well be why! Google is just giving me search results with people doing such and such with 'freebsd-head', not what it is. Since nobody else has chimed in... HEAD refers to the

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-12 Thread Saifi Khan
On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Wojciech Puchar wrote: The ACM Queue (1 May 2004) article by Jay Michaelson of Wasabi Systems is very insightful. There is no such thing as Free (Software) lunch Please take a look at http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=1005066 In 2009, you would like your

Re: Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-12 Thread Mark McConnell
On 12 Mar 2009 at 10:25, Jerry wrote: {Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) ...}: Is this a known problem with Bash-4? I have not been able to find anything about it on the Bash site. Jerry ges...@yahoo.com I found the same problem, and have reverted to bash3.2 until it's sorted out.

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-12 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Do you have any credible proof ? yes. i used NetBSD quite a long. i started turning into crap just when wasabisystems appeared and employed good deal of NetBSD developers. Then i switched to FreeBSD because i wanted WORKING system, while older version no longer worked on new computers.

Re: bsdtar

2009-03-12 Thread alexus
or maybe someone knows which flag i need to use to use rsync? On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:00 PM, alexus ale...@gmail.com wrote: can bsd tar save file flags (chflags) ? if not what can? -- http://alexus.org/ -- http://alexus.org/ ___

bsdtar

2009-03-12 Thread alexus
can bsd tar save file flags (chflags) ? if not what can? -- http://alexus.org/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Inetd and multiple IP addresses

2009-03-12 Thread skx
I have inetd configured to open a listening port for leafnode nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode but this opens the port on all IP addresses associated with this machine. I would like to choose only one. I tried 192.168.13.2:nntp stream tcp nowait news

Re: port: multimedia/recordmydesktop

2009-03-12 Thread Kevin Lo
Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Any experience or comments about the port multimedia/recordmydesktop? I can't access the web site http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org/ that's why I'm asking; The Web site should be http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/ to the Cc'ed maintainer of the port: the

Re: What does df command use to get Used column?

2009-03-12 Thread Peter Steele
Line 417 of /usr/src/bin/df/df.c: used = sfsp-f_blocks - sfsp-f_bfree; I keep forgetting that I can go directly to the source to answer questions like this. Thanks muchly; this is exactly what I need. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

kindle2

2009-03-12 Thread Pat Lackie
Do you allow reformatting the hand book into kindle2 lack...@cs.com ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: bsdtar

2009-03-12 Thread Roland Smith
On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:05:19PM -0400, alexus wrote: or maybe someone knows which flag i need to use to use rsync? You can use the --fileflags option, if rsync has been compiled with it. See /usr/ports/net/rsync/Makefile Roland -- R.F.Smith

Re: kindle2

2009-03-12 Thread Ivan Rambius Ivanov
Hello, On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 4:11 AM, Pat Lackie lack...@cs.com wrote: Do you allow reformatting the hand book into kindle2 Please check the copyright notice of the FreeBSD Handbook at [1]. Regards Rambius [1] http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/LEGALNOTICE.html --

Re: bsd vs gpl

2009-03-12 Thread Nathan Lay
Polytropon wrote: I'd like to make an addition: The freedom of the BSDL intentionally allows to close sources. This can be considered theft, if one would like to use this interpretation. When taking some BSDL code, there's no need to contribute anything back. One argument could be that the

Re: Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-12 Thread Eray Aslan
On 13.03.2009 02:04, Mark McConnell wrote: On 12 Mar 2009 at 10:25, Jerry wrote: {Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) ...}: [...] I found the same problem, and have reverted to bash3.2 until it's sorted out. See if the following helps. http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/COMPAT

Re: Inetd and multiple IP addresses

2009-03-12 Thread Tim Judd
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 03:38 +0100, skx wrote: I have inetd configured to open a listening port for leafnode nntp stream tcp nowait news /usr/libexec/tcpd /usr/local/sbin/leafnode but this opens the port on all IP addresses associated with this machine. I would like to choose only one. I

Re: Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) syntax

2009-03-12 Thread bf
{Problem with Bash-4 and $(command) ...}: [...] I found the same problem, and have reverted to bash3.2 until it's sorted out. See if the following helps. http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/bash/COMPAT Especially: 38. Since bash-4.0 now follows Posix rules for finding the closing

the pause that removes

2009-03-12 Thread prad
one of the neat things i've found about freebsd vs linux is the 'instantaneous' rm. when you remove a large file or a substantial directory, freebsd does it right away ard you get your prompt back, while with every linux i've tried, you wait and wait and wait. i presume freebsd just takes the

Re: bsdtar

2009-03-12 Thread alexus
yeah, i just found patch for it, thanks! On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Roland Smith rsm...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 10:05:19PM -0400, alexus wrote: or maybe someone knows which flag i need to use to use rsync? You can use the --fileflags option, if rsync has been compiled