am I the only one, wrt gcc44 -- it is failing and I can't build octave or much else

2009-10-26 Thread Henry Olyer
'everything; is dying in /usr/ports/lang/gcc44 I know, (in all likelihood,) I'll have to scratch this area and do a complete re-install. Fine. The thing is, I didn't change anything to mess this area up in the first place. I've just been going to various directories in /usr/ports and saying,

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
At Mon, 26 Oct 2009 14:32:02 +1100, Rob Hurle wrote: Thank you to everyone who answered: kldload fusefs What does ls -la /dev/da* show you. So the device is there, but ntfs-3g fails to see it. Probably kldload fusefs isn't loaded (until Saturday) Yes, fuse.ko had to me copied

Re: am I the only one, wrt gcc44 -- it is failing and I can't build octave or much else

2009-10-26 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 02:53:36 -0400 Henry Olyer henry.ol...@gmail.com wrote: 'everything; is dying in /usr/ports/lang/gcc44 Update and clean out your ports tree (portsnap/ portsclean). And then rebuild octave. Take a look at the error message. Does it tell you to put something like

Re: am I the only one, wrt gcc44 -- it is failing and I can't build octave or much else

2009-10-26 Thread b. f.
Henry Olyer wrote: 'everything; is dying in /usr/ports/lang/gcc44 I know, (in all likelihood,) I'll have to scratch this area and do a complete re-install. Fine. The thing is, I didn't change anything to mess this area up in the first place. I've just been going to various directories in

ipf firewall, dropping connections

2009-10-26 Thread cknipe
Hi, I'm runing 7.2 with IPFilter - main purpose is for a news server. Many established connections are just dropped and closed, it seems to be random, all allow rules are being affected. Any insight would be appreciated. The machine is under heavy usage, averaging arround 150 to 200

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Polytropon
Hi Rob, just a little terminology note (from me, Mister Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard disk, use disk with k. Think like diskette. If you are refering to optical media, use disc with c. Think like CD = compact disc. Disk: disk pack, hard disk, disk drive Disc:

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:33:16 +1100, Rob Hurle rob1...@gmail.com wrote: I need to transfer between FreeBSD and Windows, both ways :-( Could you imagine to use FAT instead of NTFS, or do you intendedly require features that are specific to NTFS? I found that FAT - in FreeBSD: msdosfs - is

Re: can't make www/linux-f10-flashplugin10

2009-10-26 Thread Boris Samorodov
Jamie Griffin j...@gmx.com writes: Hi, i'm trying to build the www/linux-f10-flashplugin port and i'm getting the following error on make: /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk, line 79: Malformed conditional ($LINUX_DIST_SUFFIX}==) /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.linux-apps.mk, line 145: Malformed conditional

LinkedIn Messages, 10/26/2009

2009-10-26 Thread LinkedIn Communication
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Re: ipf firewall, dropping connections

2009-10-26 Thread phantomcircuit
I'm guessing you have kernel tuning issues that have nothing to do with the firewall. http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/configtuning-kernel-limits.html ckn...@savage.za.org wrote: Hi, I'm runing 7.2 with IPFilter - main purpose is for a news server. Many established connections

some ftp mirrors is wrong or inconsistently

2009-10-26 Thread Oleg Ole
Hello maillist Some ftp servers from official ftp mirrors ( http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/mirrors-ftp.html) is incorrect or out of sync. For example, test scripts ( require ftp/lftp ) says that only 90 from 167 ;) have 8.0-RC1.iso -- #!/bin/sh cd /tmp fetch

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Rob Hurle
Hi Polytropon, just a little terminology note (from me, Mister Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard disk, use disk with k. Think like diskette. If you are refering to optical media, use disc with c. Think like CD = compact disc. Thanks for your comment. disk began

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Arthur Chance
Polytropon wrote: Hi Rob, just a little terminology note (from me, Mister Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard disk, use disk with k. Think like diskette. If you are refering to optical media, use disc with c. Think like CD = compact disc. Disk: disk pack, hard disk,

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Rob Hurle wrote: Thanks for your comments too, about use of the FAT32 file system. I had thought about that, but the NTFS seemed to be a bit more universal - I'm not sure that FAT file systems are recognised by default on Macs (for example). FAT (and almost to the same extent, FAT32)

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:37:50 +1100, Rob Hurle rob1...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for your comment. disk began life as the American spelling (probably older English, copied from Greek) and disc was the English (UK, Australia, probably South Africa and other places). Here, in Australia, I am used

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Polytropon
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:07:45 +, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: The distinction you make is one I've not come across before, and I've worked with computers for nearly 40 years. This specific differentiation is common at least in Germany. We handle foreign words quite

Re: can't make www/linux-f10-flashplugin10

2009-10-26 Thread Jamie Griffin
On Mon 26.Oct'09 at 13:17:56 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: The port www/linux-f10-flashplugin needs linux -f10- ports. The latter are defaults for FreeBSD-8.x and later. You can use them at 7.2 (7.2-STABLE is preferred). For more unformation take a look at /usr/ports/UPDATING 20090401:

Re: auto format and partion

2009-10-26 Thread Robert
On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:23:35 +1000 da...@hushmail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 got the latest version of your os for 64 bit systems from osdisc.com do you think you could throw in an auto install feauture that like every other os on the market i dropped out of

bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Ray Still
Hello, I am adding a redundant Internet connection to my current hosting setup and I need to figure out how to set up the DNS to make this work. Current setup: freebsd 7.0 machine, one local IP address, runs web, mail, and name server. static ip address in router. I have two DNS servers

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-26 Thread Bob Johnson
On 10/26/09, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:07:45 +, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: The distinction you make is one I've not come across before, and I've worked with computers for nearly 40 years. Same here. I've always been told they were completely

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Oct 26, 2009, at 10:03 AM, Ray Still wrote: Hello, I am adding a redundant Internet connection to my current hosting setup and I need to figure out how to set up the DNS to make this work. The two issues normally aren't related. If both connections are from the same provider, talk to

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Gary Gatten
You certainly don't need BGP for this, the DNS thing will work, but will be a bit kludgy and certainly not as ... responsive to failures - a la query caching, TTL's and what not. - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: Ray

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Ray Still
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:55 AM, Gary Gatten ggat...@waddell.com wrote: You certainly don't need BGP for this, the DNS thing will work, but will be a bit kludgy and certainly not as ... responsive to failures - a la query caching, TTL's and what not. - Original Message - From:

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Rees
2009/10/26 Bob Johnson fbsdli...@gmail.com: On 10/26/09, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:07:45 +, Arthur Chance free...@qeng-ho.org wrote: The distinction you make is one I've not come across before, and I've worked with computers for nearly 40 years. Same

Re: FW: DNS Question

2009-10-26 Thread krad
2009/10/23 Len Conrad lcon...@go2france.com -- Original Message -- From: krad kra...@googlemail.com Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:56:40 +0100 2009/10/23 Sean Cavanaugh millenia2...@hotmail.com Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 08:30:08 -0400 From:

RE: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Gary Gatten
I'm not intimate with bind, or anything/one actually - but that's another story... Anyway, the gist is you need to ping some public hosts from your dns server (or another system I guess, but easier if on the dns server). One destination host would be reachable through one connection, and the

Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Yuri
It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. How many people actually use it? Very few. Why isn't it moved to ports? Yuri ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Yuri wrote: It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. How many people actually use it? Very few. Are you sure about that? AFAIK, all system reports are sent with the sendmail binary. Steve ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Yuri y...@rawbw.com: It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. How many people actually use it? Very few. Quite a lot. In fact, anyone who properly installs FreeBSD as a server. Why isn't it moved to ports? Because an MTA has traditionally been part of a POSIX system. Besides, if it's

Re: FW: DNS Question

2009-10-26 Thread DAve
krad wrote: a few massive assumptions here I feel. 1. all the domains are controlled by said person 2. Are on the same server 3. Fits with the relevent provisioning system, 4. Is probably are using bind You betcha, though all good information. 1. Nope, the CNAME is not controlled by me. 2.

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 12:29:27 -0700, Yuri y...@rawbw.com wrote: It's in /usr/sbin/sendmail. How many people actually use it? Very few. Why isn't it moved to ports? This questions comes up very often. You can find lots of reasons in one of the older threads about Sendmail, e.g. at:

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread Freminlins
2009/10/25 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk % pkg_info -r linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32 Information for linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32: Depends on: Dependency: linux_base-f10-10_2 Dependency: linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g Dependency: linux-f10-openldap-2.4.12_1

RE: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Gary Gatten
I googled dns round robin failover and there are many hits. One interesting one is: http://forums.devshed.com/dns-36/ha-using-round-robinworking-368800.html It suggests well written apps / resolvers will try to use all ip's returned by the query starting with the preferred one, not JUST

Re: configuring X on the Presario with the 8200M driver

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Henry Olyer wrote: I need more information to make this work. help, please. And thank you! On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 8:27 AM, Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.comwrote: Jules Gilbert wrote: now i got up (by doing the startx as root,) but i dont' have a working mouse. when I am in screen

Re: Disk vs Disc (was: WD External Disc Drive)

2009-10-26 Thread Matthew Seaman
Chris Rees wrote: I have always considered hard disk, floppy diskette, and compact disc (and digital versatile disc) to be the terminology; but then again the official British spelling is disc, whereas AFAICR the US spelling is disk. The official British spelling is whichever one of disc or

Re: can't make www/linux-f10-flashplugin10

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Jamie Griffin wrote: On Mon 26.Oct'09 at 13:17:56 +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote: The port www/linux-f10-flashplugin needs linux -f10- ports. The latter are defaults for FreeBSD-8.x and later. You can use them at 7.2 (7.2-STABLE is preferred). For more unformation take a look at

Re: can't make www/linux-f10-flashplugin10

2009-10-26 Thread Jamie Griffin
Just in case someone looks here and not in UPDATING referred above, they go in /etc/make.conf but you probably meant that :) Chris Hi chris oops, yes that is what meant. sorry. J ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

[freebsd-questions] in subject line

2009-10-26 Thread Chris Whitehouse
Hi Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into different 'folders' I couldn't see anything in my freebsd questions list account

Re: [freebsd-questions] in subject line

2009-10-26 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Chris-- On Oct 26, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Chris Whitehouse wrote: Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into different 'folders'

Re: [freebsd-questions] in subject line

2009-10-26 Thread Daniel C. Dowse
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:43:17 + Chris Whitehouse cwhi...@onetel.com wrote: Hi Some mailing lists I am on automatically insert the mailing list name in square brackets into the subject line. I find this quite useful for setting up filters in thunderbird to drop different lists into

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Ray Still
Ok, tell me just how nuts this idea is. To recap, two pipes, one destination. I set up second DNS server. ns1.example.com at 70.65. (provider 1) ns2.example.com at 206.75(provider 2) A records for example.org on ns1 will give 70.65. on ns2 206.75 if provider one goes down, ns1 is

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Gary Gatten
Yes, your missing something. I don't think your solution will work very well. - Original Message - From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon Oct 26 18:13:47 2009 Subject: Re:

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Gary Gatten
How will the client side resolvers know what dns server to use to resolve example.com? - Original Message - From: Gary Gatten To: 'rstil...@gmail.com' rstil...@gmail.com; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon Oct 26 18:24:38 2009 Subject: Re: bind

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread PJ
Thank you very much Herbert, I appreciate your input. As I wrote in my original query, I had auccessfully installed the lilnux-flashplugin9 on FreeBSD 7.2 both on a 64 bit portable _ Acer Travelmate 4400 - and on a couple of disks on the same machine (i386). I followed the instructions from

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread PJ
Matthew Seaman wrote: PJ wrote: Is there any definitive install guide for flashplugin. I was able to install it on a 7.2 64bit machine and then on an i386 but somehow it has morphed into god-knows-what and no longer works. This is what I did for a 7.2 box. Note that there are compatibility

Re: flashplugin

2009-10-26 Thread PJ
Freminlins wrote: 2009/10/25 Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk % pkg_info -r linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32 Information for linux-f10-flashplugin-10.0r32: Depends on: Dependency: linux_base-f10-10_2 Dependency: linux-f10-openssl-0.9.8g Dependency:

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ray Still wrote: Ok, tell me just how nuts this idea is. imho, your thought-process is not nuts. I can see what you are trying to do, so kudos given for trying to work it out with what you have. To recap, two pipes, one destination. I set up second DNS server. ns1.example.com at 70.65.

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Ray Still wrote: Ok, tell me just how nuts this idea is. In addition to my other post: I like your mentality of trying to do whatever you can to create redundancy. I've often tried to think of ways to use DNS to make things redundant and resilient. Keep up trying new ways to stretch things

Re: Why is sendmail is part of the system and not a package?

2009-10-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
How many people actually use it? Very few. Out of the 12 or 15 servers I run, only one do not use stock sendmail: the mail server. So one out of twelve is rather quite a lot... Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Best
hi there, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. any advice on how to do this? cheers.

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: hi there, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. It doesn't

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax. De3finitely not. man hosts to see the

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Alexander Best
Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to support this syntax.

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Olivier Nicole
Alex, i'm not using a webserver or anything. i'm just a regular user. the point is: i often forget to specify https://... for that specific address in apps like lynx or firefox. that's why the non-ssl version of that site is being loaded. i'd like freebsd to take care of this so even if the

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Steve Bertrand
Alexander Best wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address. unfortunately hosts doesn't seem to

Invitation to connect on LinkedIn

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Lagg driver not working on HP Proliant

2009-10-26 Thread Peter Steele
We just purchased an HP Proliant DL320 G6, a 1U server with two Broadcom NICs. When configured as standalone interfaces, the two NICs work fine. However, when configured as a failover lagg pair, we cannot assign an IP to the lagg0 interface. We are using the following entry in our rc.conf file:

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread Michael Powell
Steve Bertrand wrote: Alexander Best wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address.

Re: bind configuration issues

2009-10-26 Thread Ray Still
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Steve Bertrand st...@ibctech.ca wrote: Ray Still wrote: Ok, tell me just how nuts this idea is. imho, your thought-process is not nuts. I can see what you are trying to do, so kudos given for trying to work it out with what you have. To recap, two pipes,

Re: howto use https in favour of http

2009-10-26 Thread jhell
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:29, alexbestms@ wrote: Olivier Nicole schrieb am 2009-10-27: Hi, i've added the following line to my /etc/hosts: permail.uni-muenster.de:25 permail.uni-muenster.de:443 so what i want is for freebsd to never use http, but https for that address.

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Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:39 pm, Polytropon wrote: Hi Rob, just a little terminology note (from me, Mister Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard disk, use disk with k. Think like diskette. If you are refering to optical media, use disc with c. Think like CD = compact

Re: WD External Disc Drive

2009-10-26 Thread Malcolm Kay
On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:27 pm, Malcolm Kay wrote: On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:39 pm, Polytropon wrote: Hi Rob, just a little terminology note (from me, Mister Use-the-correct-words): If you are refering to a kind of hard disk, use disk with k. Think like diskette. If you are refering to