The procedure to install xorg suggested in Sec 5 of the Handbook does not work
for my Acer Aspire 4730Z laptop running 7.0 amd64 GENERIC.
I get no screen available with the vesa driver and a very low resolution X
with the vga driver. Any suggestions for a xorg.conf file that will work. It
On Wednesday 22 of April 2009 21:27:39 Fritz wrote:
Hi,
... When are you going to build
a modern installer for FreeBSD?
If I can add my 2 cents to this entire discusion, it will be nice if will be
the TUI which is similar to TUI done in Debian Lenny installer. You can do
simply next and back
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:53:28 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote:
fetchmail, gotcha. I'll look into that.
I'm using it myself and I'm still happy with it. The advantage is
that you can use it for more than just one POP account.
The Outlook Express deal is not for me, that's for another
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
tHat said: how can I experiement with translating my html into
slideshow format? If this is a case of RTFM, where is the FM
page website that will get me going.?
For a real slideshow in terms of
I want to install acroread.
I have FreeBSD7/amd64.
Linux binary compatibility is installed:.
linux_base-fc-4_13 Base set of packages needed in Linux mode (for i386/amd64)
/etc/rc.conf contains
linux_enable=YES
# cd /usr/ports/print/acroread9
# make install clean
fetches and installs several
Since several months after a upgrade from OpenLDAP 2.4.11 to the most
recent one I have trouble login in on machines which authenticate users
via OpenLDAP.
The OpenLDAP server is at the momen a FreeBSD 7.2 box running most
recent OpenLDAP from ports. The follwoing is also true for each
We run a bunch of FreeBSD boxes, some FreeBSD 7.2, others (most) FreeBSD
8.0-CURRENT (most amd64).
These boxes manage their users via OpenLDAP 2.4.XX. Before we did an
upgrade to OpenLDAP 2.4.15/16, everything was all right. Now, after
nearly all of our OpenLDAP servers has been upgraded to
El día Thursday, April 23, 2009 a las 10:22:52PM +0200, Juergen Lock escribió:
a new effect is that the qemu proc ends on termination of guest OS; the
flag -no-shutdown does not help;
Oh, yeah, same here. I've just reported this on the qemu list, and btw
kvm seems to be affected too:
Friday 24 April 2009 09:26:40 John Beukema napisał(a):
The procedure to install xorg suggested in Sec 5 of the Handbook does not
work for my Acer Aspire 4730Z laptop running 7.0 amd64 GENERIC. I get no
screen available with the vesa driver and a very low resolution X with the
vga driver. Any
Dear list,
After upgrading Xorg from ports to the latest version
xorg-server-1.6.0,1
xorg-7.4_1
I am experiencing very unpleasant phenomenon, Xorg randomly exiting with
message:
Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kernel: pid 7445 (Xorg), uid 0: exited on signal 6
Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kdm-bin[1020]: X server
As a computer user who happens to be blind and who has
done a ton of FreeBSD installs the headless way, I hope any new
installer will not absolutely require a GUI. If it can run in a
GUI mode, fine, but I hope it will still let one connect via a
serial port and direct the process that way.
Matthew Seaman writes:
tcsh(1) includes timestamps in it's .history. bash(1) doesn't.
Not sure about other shells, but the historical (ahem!) behaviour
of csh(1) was not to use timestamps, and I think most shells subsequently
developed have carried on the same history format, with
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ott Köstner o...@zzz.ee wrote:
Dear list,
After upgrading Xorg from ports to the latest version
xorg-server-1.6.0,1
xorg-7.4_1
I am experiencing very unpleasant phenomenon, Xorg randomly exiting with
message:
Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kernel: pid 7445 (Xorg),
done a ton of FreeBSD installs the headless way, I hope any new
installer will not absolutely require a GUI. If it can run in a
GUI mode, fine, but I hope it will still let one connect via a
serial port and direct the process that way.
as you can do everything easily in text mode, it just
a modern installer for FreeBSD?
If I can add my 2 cents to this entire discusion, it will be nice if will be
the TUI which is similar to TUI done in Debian Lenny installer. You can do
simply next and back option, you can easily choose betwen e.g ext3 or
reiserfs. It will be nice if we can also
At 2009-04-24T08:35:22-05:00, Martin McCormick wrote:
Thanks to you and N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in
for your help. That has got to be what I did.
You are welcome :-)
Raghavendra.
--
N. Raghavendra ra...@mri.ernet.in | http://www.retrotexts.net/
Harish-Chandra Research Institute
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 12:34:01PM +0200, Ivan Voras typed:
O. Hartmann wrote:
Since several months after a upgrade from OpenLDAP 2.4.11 to the most
recent one I have trouble login in on machines which authenticate users
via OpenLDAP.
I've just installed a fresh machine with FreeBSD
Hi,
I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd
and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a
desktop compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and
will freebsd recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory and if it does not
regularly, how
i had some trouble because of corrupted indices with ldap. running
slapindex fixed, it. can you try that?
alwin
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On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 9:06 AM, Michael Jr. mjrh...@windstream.net wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and
pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop
compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and will
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote:
Also, when you enter kldstat, do you see these?
iwi_bss.ko
iwi_ibss.ko
iwi_monitor.ko
if_iwi.ko
No. Shouldn't they be in-kerne?
I compiled my own kernel with the settings I posted in my previous
mail, including
Hi,
I'm trying to get a python script to run from /etc/crontab, but it
won't work.
I've read about the most common issues being related to paths, but my
script uses no paths at all.
This is my /etc/crontab line:
*/5 * * * *
munin /usr/local/bin/python /root/myscript.py
They should be, yes. I would try loading the modules (kldload) just to
be sure. If loading the modules doesn't fix things, then it's safe to
assume they were compiled in kernel. (But then again, I'm certainly
not an expert in this area.)
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:04 AM, Fernando Apesteguía
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:08:13 +0300
Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to get a python script to run from /etc/crontab, but it
won't work.
I've read about the most common issues being related to paths, but my
script uses no paths at all.
This is my /etc/crontab line:
*/5
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote:
Ok i just changed 'who' column to root and it works.
Why won't it work as any other user?
Permissions for myscript.py are 555.
Who owns the file?
--
Glen Barber
___
Hello,
Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to
this software:
http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/
Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu?
Thx
matthias
--
Matthias Apitz
Manager Technical Support - OCLC GmbH
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:17:13 -0400
Glen Barber glen.j.bar...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:14 AM, Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote:
Ok i just changed 'who' column to root and it works.
Why won't it work as any other user?
Permissions for myscript.py are 555.
Who owns the
Wojciech Puchar writes:
as you can do everything easily in text mode, it just points out that GUI
installer is nonsense.
The real problem happens when the GUI is considered to
be all anybody needs.
A certain wide-spread OS has gone that way and many
times, one discovers that
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Daniel Underwood djuatde...@gmail.com wrote:
They should be, yes. I would try loading the modules (kldload) just to
be sure. If loading the modules doesn't fix things, then it's safe to
assume they were compiled in kernel. (But then again, I'm certainly
not an
Usually, when cron tries to run something unsuccessfully, an
error message goes to root. You might look at root's mail to see
if there are any complaints regarding this script. They could be
anything from path-related troubles to permissions, etc.
The mail may also be going to the user defined in
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:14:26PM +0300, Ghirai wrote:
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:08:13 +0300
Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to get a python script to run from /etc/crontab, but it
won't work.
I've read about the most common issues being related to paths, but my
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:39:21 -0400
Jerry McAllister jerr...@msu.edu wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 06:14:26PM +0300, Ghirai wrote:
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009 18:08:13 +0300
Ghirai ghi...@ghirai.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to get a python script to run from /etc/crontab, but it
won't
Neal Hogan wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Ott Köstner o...@zzz.ee wrote:
Dear list,
After upgrading Xorg from ports to the latest version
xorg-server-1.6.0,1
xorg-7.4_1
I am experiencing very unpleasant phenomenon, Xorg randomly exiting with
message:
Apr 24 15:16:16 ott kernel:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:
Hello,
Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to
this software:
http://win4bsd.com/wp/win4bsd-free-for-non-commercial-use/
Any comments about or test results in compare with Qemu?
Thx
Michael Jr. wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and
pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop
compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work with sager laptops, and will
freebsd recognize 4 gigs of ddr3 memory and if it does not
Hello all,
I am having some problems with NFS and slow performance.
This is the scenario:
2x FreeBSD 7.1. (Raid storage server, MP, the works)
GB Lan interface between them.
When I transfer 1 big file the speed is never higher than 10MB/s with a peak
to 14MB/s.
When I transfer
On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 21:01 +0300, l...@lena.kiev.ua wrote:
Hi,
I uninstalled firefox 2, installed firefox 3 and use it. Later,
portupgrade of librsvg2 began to build firefox 2 (I aborted it with ^C).
Then I specified
graphics/librsvg2 = WITH_GECKO=xulrunner,
in MAKE_ARGS in
Jan Catrysse wrote:
Hello all,
I am having some problems with NFS and slow performance.
This is the scenario:
2x FreeBSD 7.1. (Raid storage server, MP, the works)
GB Lan interface between them.
When I transfer 1 big file the speed is never higher than 10MB/s with a peak
to 14MB/s.
We had a somewhat startling scenario occur with gmirror. We have systems with
four drives ad4, ad6, ad8, and ad10, with the OS setup on a mirrored slice
across all four drives. The ad4 drive failed at one point, due to a simple bad
connection in its drive bay. While it was offline, the system
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:44 AM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 13:53:28 -0700, Liontaur liont...@gmail.com wrote:
fetchmail, gotcha. I'll look into that.
I'm using it myself and I'm still happy with it. The advantage is
that you can use it for more than just one POP
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 11:39 AM, Ricardo Jesus ricardo.meb.je...@gmail.com
wrote:
Michael Jr. wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd and
pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a desktop
compared to pc-bsd? Will freebsd work
When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by
entering su and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt
does not reflect the contents of /root/.bash_profile
My /root/.bash_profile contains (among other things):
export PS1=[\e[1;31m\]$(tput bold)\u$(tput
Daniel Underwood wrote:
When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by
entering su and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt
does not reflect the contents of /root/.bash_profile
My /root/.bash_profile contains (among other things):
export PS1=[\e[1;31m\]$(tput
You're right. Works now. Many thanks!
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Adam Vandemore amvandem...@gmail.com wrote:
Daniel Underwood wrote:
When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by
entering su and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt
does not reflect
Daniel Underwood wrote:
When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by
entering su and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt
does not reflect the contents of /root/.bash_profile
My /root/.bash_profile contains (among other things):
export PS1=[\e[1;31m\]$(tput
Peter Steele wrote:
We had a somewhat startling scenario occur with gmirror. We have systems with
four drives ad4, ad6, ad8, and ad10, with the OS setup on a mirrored slice
across all four drives. The ad4 drive failed at one point, due to a simple
bad connection in its drive bay. While it
Ivan Voras wrote:
Peter Steele wrote:
We had a somewhat startling scenario occur with gmirror. We have systems
with four drives ad4, ad6, ad8, and ad10, with the OS setup on a mirrored
slice across all four drives. The ad4 drive failed at one point, due to a
simple bad connection in its
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
tHat said: how can I experiment with translating my html into
slideshow format? If this is a case of RTFM, where is the FM
page website that will
Hi,
When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by
entering su and typing the root password, the resulting bash prompt
does not reflect the contents of /root/.bash_profile
Because .bash_profile is only seen on login, not on 'su'. Put
it in .bashrc which is read when
This only happens with ad4. If ad6 for example goes offline in the same way,
when it is reinserted it does not become the dominant drive and resync its data
with the other drives. Rather its data is overwritten with the data from the 3
member mirror, as you'd expect.
looks like very strange
Because .bash_profile is only seen on login, not on 'su'. Put
it in .bashrc which is read when the shell is invoked.
See 'man bash'
Patrick
Daniel Underwood presented these words - circa 4/24/09 12:43 PM-
When I am logged in as a non-root user and I try to become root by
entering su and
On Friday 24 April 2009, Gary Kline wrote:
This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer.
I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice;
unfortunately, commercial.
audio/festival in the ports is decent and has a few voices to choose from.
JN
This definitely looks like a bug. Try asking again on the freebsd-geom@
list. Provide output of gmirror list.
I'll try that list...
So, your steps were:
1. ad4, ad6, ad8 and ad10 in a 4-way mirror
2. ad4 fails. At this point did you do a gmirror list? I.e. did
gmirror detect it failing?
In article d356c5630904240925y25a2ec11m429e57001880c...@mail.gmail.com you
write:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote:
Hello,
Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in Spanish, I've got a pointer to
this software:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:17:51PM +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
El día Thursday, April 23, 2009 a las 10:22:52PM +0200, Juergen Lock escribió:
a new effect is that the qemu proc ends on termination of guest OS; the
flag -no-shutdown does not help;
Oh, yeah, same here. I've just
This only happens with ad4. If ad6 for example goes offline in the same way,
when it is reinserted
it does not become the dominant drive and resync its data with the other
drives. Rather its data
is overwritten with the data from the 3 member mirror, as you'd expect.
looks like very
i think it's a bug but only happens with such massive mirror. very few
people do more than 2-way mirrors that's probably it wasn't catched.
please do report the bug - it's critical.
On Fri, 24 Apr 2009, Peter Steele wrote:
This only happens with ad4. If ad6 for example goes offline in the
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:50 PM, Juergen Lock n...@jelal.kn-bremen.dewrote:
In article d356c5630904240925y25a2ec11m429e57001880c...@mail.gmail.com
you write:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de
wrote:
Hello,
Subscribed in a FreeBSD mailing list in
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org
wrote:
tHat said: how can I experiment with translating my html into
slideshow
On our FreeBSD 7.2/8.0 driven infrastructure we use OpenLDAP:
openldap-sasl-client-2.4.16 Open source LDAP client implementation with
SASL2 support
openldap-sasl-server-2.4.16 Open source LDAP server implementation
pam_ldap-1.8.4_1A pam module for authenticating with LDAP
From O'Reilly's
I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD
src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way
for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue.
I tried a few cvs history commands against the anoncvs servers but get
this:
Hi,
I'm using openvpn to connect my vpn-gateway at home to an external
server, both are FreeBSD-boxes (6.2-STABLE).
The external server has an fixed IP, the client at home connects to a
router, which gets a new IP every 24 hours.
The client is configured as router (gateway_enable=YES) which
Hi,
I've ancountered a very strange behaviour. I'm running a server with
FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, which is connected to a 100mbit-line at some hosting
company.
When downloading files over FTP (proftpd) or HTTP (apache 2.2) I only
get about 800kb/s, uploading seems to have the same limit
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John Nielsen wrote:
I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD
src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way
for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue.
I tried
John Nielsen wrote:
I'm working on a machine learning project and I'd like to use the FreeBSD
src CVS commit history as a datasource. Is there a resource-friendly way
for me to download some or all of it? Format isn't too big an issue.
I tried a few cvs history commands against the anoncvs
2009/4/24 Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com:
This definitely looks like a bug. Try asking again on the freebsd-geom@
list. Provide output of gmirror list.
I'll try that list...
So, your steps were:
1. ad4, ad6, ad8 and ad10 in a 4-way mirror
2. ad4 fails. At this point did you do a gmirror
By kicked out you mean overwritten?
You should definitely look at gmirror list before and after.
Sorry for the confusion. By kicked out, what I meant was as gmirror started
up it took ad4 as the principal member, saw that it was previously part of a
mirror with three other drives and tried
Hi,
I've ancountered a very strange behaviour. I'm running a server with
FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE, which is connected to a 100mbit-line at some hosting
company.
When downloading files over FTP (proftpd) or HTTP (apache 2.2) I only
get about 800kb/s, uploading seems to have the same limit
Hi,
I'm using openvpn to connect my vpn-gateway at home to an external
server, both are FreeBSD-boxes (6.2-STABLE).
The external server has an fixed IP, the client at home connects to a
router, which gets a new IP every 24 hours.
The client is configured as router (gateway_enable=YES) which
Hi, Neo--
On Apr 24, 2009, at 3:26 PM, Neo [GC] wrote:
After my router gets a new IP, the openvpn client reconnects to the
server and the tunnel is usable from free...@home to free...@external.
But: I have one Vista and one OSX at home, both have static routes
to the FreeBSD-box. They are
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:38:06AM -0400, John Nielsen wrote:
On Friday 24 April 2009, Gary Kline wrote:
This ought to help if I ever find a free speech synthesizer.
I found one yesterday that must be a real human voice;
unfortunately, commercial.
audio/festival in the ports
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I'm using an Intel DG33BU board with a SATA HD and SATA optical drives.
Using FreeBSD 7.1 AMD64 I get a kernel panic and subsequent file system
corruption when attempting to burn a cd using the burncd utility. I can
avoid this easily enough by using cdrecord and growisofs which work as
they
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 04:20:45PM -0500, Andrew Gould wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 10:48:52AM +0200, Polytropon wrote:
On Thu, 23 Apr 2009 14:36:25 -0700, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org
[[[ ... ]]]
I've
When downloading files over FTP (proftpd) or HTTP (apache 2.2) I only get
about 800kb/s, uploading seems to have the same limit (couldn't test it
really, as my line stops at abount 860kb/s). When I start multiple downloads,
I get 800kb/s for each transfer, up to about 5000kb/s, which is the
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Mel wrote:
On Tuesday 17 February 2009 09:51:10 n j wrote:
(sorry for the previous mail)
The Makefile says:
...
So I'll bet some money that it's docbook.
Correct.
Does it improve if you add these to /etc/make.conf:
...
No, the result is
I am trying to get tnftpd or lukemftpd to do the authomatic conversions
documented in the man page. I am running 7.1 Release #0. My
/var/ftp/etc/ftpd.conf file is only two lines:
motd all motd
conversion all .Z f . /bin/compress %s
and from the motd message I can see that the server is
On Friday 24 April 2009 11:06:03 am Michael Jr. wrote:
Hi,
I was just wondering what are the major differences between freebsd
and pc-bsd and is it harder or just as easy to setup freebsd as a
desktop compared to pc-bsd?
Hi there Michael =)
In regards to the differences I think it depends
On Monday 20 April 2009 11:58:39 am Keith Seyffarth wrote:
I'm trying to print from my FreeBSD machine. I've been through a
number of online tutorials and instructions on printing from Unix or
FreeBSD in particular, but they all seem to start with the assumption
that printing from the machine
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