Re: Remote ssh tunnel in background or script?

2009-11-10 Thread krad
2009/11/9 Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz Svante Kvarnstrom wrote: Hello Have you tried -f (for background) and -N for Do not execute a remote command? See man 1 ssh for more details. Svante Cheers for you! It was -f without -N that produced the error. I'm guessing I got down the

Does FreeBSD support the Ralink RT73 chipset

2009-11-10 Thread carmel_ny
I just got my hands on a Belkin Wireless device that uses a Ralink RT73 chipset. Rather than waste a lot of time attempting to get it to work, I thought I would ask if anyone here has succeed in doing so. I see that FreeBSD supports: Atheros and Intersil Prism components;however, I did not see any

pppoe related

2009-11-10 Thread Dánielisz László
Hi, What do you use to keep alive your FreeBSD pppoe connection client even if there is no traffic? What do you set to reconnect the pppoe client automaticaly on any disconnection? Thank you! László ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD remote MS ACCESS database

2009-11-10 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, Is there any chance to read and update a remote MS ACCSESS database from FreeBSD 8-CURRENT, via ODBC? Thanks in advance matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e g...@unixarea.de - w http://www.unixarea.de/ Vote NO to EU The Lisbon

Re: pppoe related

2009-11-10 Thread Andreas Rudisch
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:52:22 -0800 (PST) Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com wrote: What do you use to keep alive your FreeBSD pppoe connection client even if there is no traffic? What do you set to reconnect the pppoe client automaticaly on any disconnection? man ppp -ddial

Re: FreeBSD remote MS ACCESS database

2009-11-10 Thread Greg Larkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Apitz wrote: Hello, Is there any chance to read and update a remote MS ACCSESS database from FreeBSD 8-CURRENT, via ODBC? Thanks in advance matthias Hi Matthias, I haven't used it before, but perhaps the unixODBC port would

Re: FreeBSD remote MS ACCESS database

2009-11-10 Thread Dan Nelson
In the last episode (Nov 10), Matthias Apitz said: Is there any chance to read and update a remote MS ACCSESS database from FreeBSD 8-CURRENT, via ODBC? Thanks in advance With samba, wine, and a local install of Office, sure. ODBC is a programming API, not a networking protocol, so you need

x input method question

2009-11-10 Thread Steve Franks
I'm trying to type hangul/korean in any X app. No luck so far. I'm on a paired-down desktop on xfwm, and I've installed nabi and scim-hangul, but neither one seems to do anythingI'm on 8-RC1 if it makes any difference...I'm actually an english speaker, so the nabi www pages are a little hard

libjpeg.so.9 missing from my installation of FBSD 7.2

2009-11-10 Thread Henry Olyer
I very much appreciate the help I get here. And boy!, do I need it. Undoubtedly I did something wrong when I was putting my system together. But I just can't throw it away -- I'm trying to get some things done. So, awk! help! ___

Re: FreeBSD remote MS ACCESS database

2009-11-10 Thread Bill Moran
In response to Dan Nelson dnel...@allantgroup.com: In the last episode (Nov 10), Matthias Apitz said: Is there any chance to read and update a remote MS ACCSESS database from FreeBSD 8-CURRENT, via ODBC? Thanks in advance With samba, wine, and a local install of Office, sure. ODBC is a

Re: libjpeg.so.9 missing from my installation of FBSD 7.2

2009-11-10 Thread Frank Shute
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:09:55AM -0500, Henry Olyer wrote: I very much appreciate the help I get here. And boy!, do I need it. Undoubtedly I did something wrong when I was putting my system together. But I just can't throw it away -- I'm trying to get some things done. So, awk! help!

Re: Installer: missing GEOM/gpart capabilities slicing disk?

2009-11-10 Thread Randi Harper
On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 7:40 AM, Daniel O'Connor docon...@gsoft.com.auwrote: [ -current CC dropped ] On Mon, 9 Nov 2009, O. Hartmann wrote: I try to install a fresh new FreeBSD 8.0-RC2 (from snapshot-DVD) on a barndnew harddrive. As far as I recall partitioning a disk is now done via gpart

Re: Does FreeBSD support the Ralink RT73 chipset

2009-11-10 Thread Jeronimo Calvo
Hi there, I am using RT61, so makes me wonder that RT73 does. Cheers! 2009/11/10 carmel_ny carmel...@hotmail.com: I just got my hands on a Belkin Wireless device that uses a Ralink RT73 chipset. Rather than waste a lot of time attempting to get it to work, I thought I would ask if anyone

Re: FreeBSD remote MS ACCESS database

2009-11-10 Thread Rod Person
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 16:01:58 +0100 Matthias Apitz g...@unixarea.de wrote: Hello, Is there any chance to read and update a remote MS ACCSESS database from FreeBSD 8-CURRENT, via ODBC? Thanks in advance matthias If you are familiar with python you could use py-odbc to read the

Re: libjpeg.so.9 missing from my installation of FBSD 7.2

2009-11-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Henry Olyer wrote: I very much appreciate the help I get here. And boy!, do I need it. Undoubtedly I did something wrong when I was putting my system together. But I just can't throw it away -- I'm trying to get some things done. So, awk! help! Where you performing an upgrade of an

Re: Remote ssh tunnel in background or script?

2009-11-10 Thread David Collins
Kevin Kinsey k...@daleco.biz wrote: Greetings! In order to continue to allow them to connect to an outbound SMTP box on the LAN, I've done this on their server: sudo ssh -L thisbox:24:remotebox:52525 m...@remotebox I wrote a script to get around my home firewall, it doesn't do exactly as

Re: pppoe related

2009-11-10 Thread Dánielisz László
Thank you! Found out! From: Andreas Rudisch c...@gmx.net To: Dánielisz László laszlo_daniel...@yahoo.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Tue, November 10, 2009 4:04:27 PM Subject: Re: pppoe related On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 06:52:22 -0800 (PST) Dánielisz

FATAL TRAP 12

2009-11-10 Thread Jesús Abidan
Someone has had problems with this type of issues? what it is related to? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: Does FreeBSD support the Ralink RT73 chipset

2009-11-10 Thread carmel_ny
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:17:12 + Jeronimo Calvo jeronimocal...@googlemail.com replied: I am using RT61, so makes me wonder that RT73 does. I contacted Belkin to make sure I had the proper information. They responded: Chipset information for F5D9050 version 4000 is Ralink RT2671F, RT2528L

Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7 Apache / Passenger on FreeBSD 7.2

2009-11-10 Thread Konstantinos Pachnis
Hello, I was trying to use Apache/Passenger with Ruby Enterprise Edition 1.8.7 (both versions) on a FreeBSD 7.2 (i386 and x86_64), and Apache reports the following error: Apache/2.2.13 (FreeBSD) mod_ssl/2.2.13 OpenSSL/0.9.8e DAV/2 PHP/5.2.11 with Suhosin-Patch Phusion_Passenger/2.2.5

Re: libjpeg.so.9 missing from my installation of FBSD 7.2

2009-11-10 Thread Robert Huff
Manolis Kiagias writes: Where you performing an upgrade of an existing system? AFAIK libjpeg.so.* libraries get installed by the graphics/jpeg port. This was (fairly) recently upgraded, and if you did not follow the /usr/ports/UPDATING instructions carefully, you probably ended up with

g4u option

2009-11-10 Thread Jean-Paul Natola
Hi all, I'm trying to figure out ,if possible, how to get g4u to only clone data, i.e. I have an 80 gig drive but my OS and applications only come to about 6gigs that’s what I want to clone to the new drive. Is there a way to accomplish this?   TIA J

Re: g4u option

2009-11-10 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:56 -0500, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to figure out ,if possible, how to get g4u to only clone data, i.e. I have an 80 gig drive but my OS and applications only come to about 6gigs that’s what I want to clone to the new

Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative

2009-11-10 Thread Carmel
I just switched from a regular mouse to a USB mouse wireless mouse. The mouse works fine except that the cut/paste middle button feature is inoperative. The scroll feature works correctly though. I removed all references to 'mouse' in the /etc/rc.conf file and rebooted; however, nothing changed.

Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative

2009-11-10 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:33:46 -0500, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I just switched from a regular mouse to a USB mouse wireless mouse. The mouse works fine except that the cut/paste middle button feature is inoperative. The scroll feature works correctly though. I removed all references

Re: libjpeg.so.9 missing from my installation of FBSD 7.2

2009-11-10 Thread Manolis Kiagias
Robert Huff wrote: Manolis Kiagias writes: Where you performing an upgrade of an existing system? AFAIK libjpeg.so.* libraries get installed by the graphics/jpeg port. This was (fairly) recently upgraded, and if you did not follow the /usr/ports/UPDATING instructions carefully, you

Re: icewm - error during portupgrade / compiling

2009-11-10 Thread Eitan Adler
Hey, I'm the maintainer for x11-wm/icewm. Could you tell me if add the port devel/gnome-vfs helps? And could you tell me what the output of make showconfig is for icewm? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: g4u option

2009-11-10 Thread Liontaur
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to figure out ,if possible, how to get g4u to only clone data, i.e. I have an 80 gig drive but my OS and applications only come to about 6gigs that’s what I want to clone to the new

Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative

2009-11-10 Thread Tim Judd
On 11/10/09, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I just switched from a regular mouse to a USB mouse wireless mouse. The mouse works fine except that the cut/paste middle button feature is inoperative. The scroll feature works correctly though. I removed all references to 'mouse' in the

8.0-RC3?

2009-11-10 Thread Alex R
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ shows that there is an RC3 ISO image available for download? How many RC's until the final release? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

wdm and xdm problems - related to HAL?

2009-11-10 Thread Neil Short
So I got Xorg working with Hal. Wahoo. If I log in from a display manager I encounter some weird stuff. If I am using xdm and I log out of the window manager and then attempt to shut down the computer - by going to tty 0 and typing # halt -p - the disk syncs and then the shutdown freezes. If I

Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative

2009-11-10 Thread Carmel
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:03:25 +0100 Polytropon Polytropon free...@edvax.de replied: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:33:46 -0500, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: I just switched from a regular mouse to a USB mouse wireless mouse. The mouse works fine except that the cut/paste middle button feature is

Re: wdm and xdm problems - related to HAL?

2009-11-10 Thread Polytropon
A little sidenote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:06:04 -0800 (PST), Neil Short nesh...@yahoo.com wrote: If I am using xdm and I log out of the window manager and then attempt to shut down the computer - by going to tty 0 and typing # halt -p - the disk syncs and then the shutdown freezes. You should

Re: Cut/Paste with USB mouse inoperative

2009-11-10 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:13:12 -0500, Carmel carmel...@hotmail.com wrote: 'X' has nothing to do with it. It fails to work both in and out of 'X'. With the old mouse it worked fine. The moused program offers a diagnostics mode: # moused -f -d -p /dev/ums0 Maybe you can try this and see

Re: 8.0-RC3?

2009-11-10 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 09:00:04AM +1100, Alex R wrote: ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/ISO-IMAGES/8.0/ shows that there is an RC3 ISO image available for download? How many RC's until the final release? Depends on what they find is needed to get the RELEASE ready to go.

Re: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:39 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: When a system has a USB drive present, the system typically names it /dev/da0. However, if the system has SATA drives hooked to an LSI controller, or if the system has SCSI drives, the same drive prefix is used as is

Re: x input method question

2009-11-10 Thread 牛粥
Steve Franks bahamasfra...@gmail.com writes: [...] I'm actually an english speaker, so the nabi www pages are a little hard to look at for help ;) http://nabi.kldp.net/english.html Sincerely, -- All the members of my family have lived well the last ten years, without danger, without harm. I

Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
When a system has a USB drive present, the system typically names it /dev/da0. However, if the system has SATA drives hooked to an LSI controller, or if the system has SCSI drives, the same drive prefix is used as is for the USB drive. For our purposes, we'd like to separate the USB drive from

RE: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
If you could elaborate more on the goal you are seeking, other useful information could come from this list. At the moment, it's just my wild guessing. :-) I have a bootable FreeBSD image on a USB stick that clones itself on the target system's hard drive, creating partitions and other

Re: g4u option

2009-11-10 Thread Patrick Lamaiziere
Le Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:00:56 -0500, Jean-Paul Natola jnat...@familycareintl.org a écrit : I'm trying to figure out ,if possible, how to get g4u to only clone data, i.e. I have an 80 gig drive but my OS and applications only come to about 6gigs that’s what I want to clone to the new drive.

Re: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread RW
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:39 -0600 Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: When a system has a USB drive present, the system typically names it /dev/da0. However, if the system has SATA drives hooked to an LSI controller, or if the system has SCSI drives, the same drive prefix is used as is

Re: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Polytropon
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:47:38 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: I have a bootable FreeBSD image on a USB stick that clones itself on the target system's hard drive, creating partitions and other configuration as defined in the cloning logic. The /etc/fstab on the USB image is

RE: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
In this case, labelling the USB stick would be a good chioce. The /etc/fstab entries then refer to those labels instead of device names (that could change). You can use generic labels as well as UFS labels here; even a reference to the UFSID would be possible, as well as independant from da

Re: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Warren Block
On Wed, 11 Nov 2009, Polytropon wrote: On Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:19:39 -0600, Peter Steele pste...@maxiscale.com wrote: When a system has a USB drive present, the system typically names it /dev/da0. However, if the system has SATA drives hooked to an LSI controller, or if the system has SCSI

RE: Renaming USB device

2009-11-10 Thread Peter Steele
Labels are an excellent solution in this case. I've done some quick research on this and it will indeed solve the issue regarding a generic fstab. I have a related question though. I want to take this a step further and convert the bootable USB stick into a bootable CD-ROM image. This is a