Re: Software RAID options

2010-01-30 Thread Mike Clarke
On Saturday 30 January 2010, Danny Edge wrote: Thanks, Glen, I should have mentioned that I did see gmirror mentioned in the HB. Pending further suggestions, I will try gmirror for software RAID 1 (yes, as large as the smallest disk). It's also possible to mirror individual slices rather than

Re: Shared object libcrypt.so.4 not found ...(or library munging after make-delete-old)

2010-01-30 Thread krad
On 29 January 2010 20:53, Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com wrote: Hi-- On Jan 29, 2010, at 12:45 PM, mikel king wrote: [ ... ] I would have thought that perl was rebuilt when I make the world and upgraded from 7.x to 8.0. Anyone have a quick and easy fix out of this mess? perl isn't part

Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-30 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi all, Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Preferably something above the Garmin puck level but not ridiculously expensive either... Thanks for any input, -- per

Re: gjournal on compact flash

2010-01-30 Thread Nikos Vassiliadis
On 1/30/2010 1:35 AM, Adam Vande More wrote: There is an rc flags to automatically do a full fsck instead of backgroud, but I am unsure exactly what you mean by user intervention. Practice has shown that while softupdates handle most situations cleanly, they don't handle ALL situations. In

Re : Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-30 Thread Alexandre L.
You can see here : http://www.meinberg.de/english/ I don't use their products (I don't know about the quality products), I just use their NTP package software for Windows. --- En date de : Sam 30.1.10, Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se a écrit : De: Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se

ral vap

2010-01-30 Thread Gaurang Pandya
Hi , Just configured my new linksys wmp54G in Freebsd-8 worked like charm, but when tried to create yet another wireless interface (wlan1), am getting error ral0: only 1 vap supported, checked man for ral and found Only one hostap Just before selling the wifi card in ebay (as I wanted, it

Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread David Rawling
Greetings all and sundry About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp port, among others. Recently, for reasons that have become lost in

Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread Ben Schumacher
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 8:06 AM, David Rawling d...@pdconsec.net wrote: About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to provide time services, I've installed the net/ntp port, among others.

Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread Daniel Molina Wegener
On Saturday 30 January 2010, David Rawling d...@pdconsec.net wrote: Greetings all and sundry Hello David, About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to provide time services, I've

Re: Replacing base NTP with ports NTP

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 02:06:53 +1100 David Rawling d...@pdconsec.net articulated: Greetings all and sundry About 3 months ago I built myself a time server using 8.0-RC3, IIRC, and I upgraded to 8.0-RELEASE (and now -p2). Naturally, as I want this server to provide time services, I've

fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Laine
Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line: /dev/msdosfs/MY FLASH /mnt/flash msdosfs rw,noauto 0 0 Any ideas? -- Best

Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Joe Springer
Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that pkg_add -r samba fails. I need to know specifically the samba version to install it. To install, I needed

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread krad
On 30 January 2010 19:05, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line:

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Tim Judd
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Joe Springer joe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that pkg_add -r samba fails. I need

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:48:23 -0800 (PST) Joe Springer joe...@yahoo.com articulated: Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that pkg_add -r samba

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jerry
On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 22:05:43 +0300 Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com articulated: Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following

Problems with make clean

2010-01-30 Thread Frank Wißmann
Hi, Beasties! I just installed the new VirtualBox through ports. It worked fine, but now I have trouble cleaning the directory. Neither make clean nor a rm -rf work/ do what they are supposed to. Here is the output: rm: work/virtualbox-3.0.51r22902/out/freebsd.amd64/debug/obj/VBoxRT/VBox:

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48:23AM -0800, Joe Springer wrote: Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that pkg_add -r samba fails. I need to

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Laine
On Sat,30-01-2010 [19:33:37], krad wrote: On 30 January 2010 19:05, Jeff Laine wtf.jla...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e.

Jails and Hardware security

2010-01-30 Thread Jay Hall
Is it possible to limit what hardware a jail has access to? I am wanting to limit access to the tape drive/autoloader in one jail, but allow another to have access to it. Is this as simple as deleting the appropriate entries in /dev? Thanks, Jay

Re: fstab syntax

2010-01-30 Thread Elias Chrysocheris
On Saturday 30 of January 2010 21:05:43 Jeff Laine wrote: Hello, My question is regarding /etc/fstab synax. How can I use spaces and quote symbols in my device name? I tried to use double quotes and backslash, but no luck so far. I.e. I'd like to put the following line: /dev/msdosfs/MY

apache22 and new hostname???

2010-01-30 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, As some of you might know, i am trying to host a friend's website on my DNS and web server. Can anybody suggest what i have to add to my /usr/local/etc/apache22/* files and directories to get http://www.anacondabuilders.us to display since I do not

Re: apache22 and new hostname???

2010-01-30 Thread Matt Emmerton
Gary, But I do need the basics of having/serving/hosting two domains on one computer. What you are looking for are called virtual hosts. See the examples in /usr/local/etc/apache22/extra/httpd-vhosts.conf. The Apache documentation (mentioned in the above file) is also helpful. Regards, --

Re: Recommendation on GPS time source for FreeBSD

2010-01-30 Thread David Kelly
On Jan 30, 2010, at 3:51 AM, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have a recommendation on a good GPS receiver/board for use with NTP/FreeBSD to create a stratum 1 public time server? Preferably something above the Garmin puck level but not ridiculously expensive either...

Re: Pain finding packages

2010-01-30 Thread Kurt Buff
On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:48, Joe Springer joe...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi. I am very new to FreeBSD with several years of Linux experience. After installed FreeSDB for the first time, I wanted to install some packages. For example, samba. I found that   pkg_add -r samba fails. I need to

Re: Problems with make clean

2010-01-30 Thread Kevin Kinsey
Frank Wißmann wrote: Hi, Beasties! I just installed the new VirtualBox through ports. It worked fine, but now I have trouble cleaning the directory. Neither make clean nor a rm -rf work/ do what they are supposed to. Here is the output: rm:

Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-30 Thread Rolf Nielsen
Hi all, I am working on a project where I have the need to generate normally distributed random positive integers, preferably unsigned 64 bit (or even longer if possible) integers. More specifically, I will need the ability to supply the expected value and the standard deviation for the

Nehelem 64 bit, kern conf and /etc/make.conf

2010-01-30 Thread Nerius Landys
I just installed FreeBSD 8.0 (amd64) onto my new Nehalem-based system. CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU L5506 @ 2.13GHz (2128.00-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0x106a5 Stepping = 5

Re: Generating normally distributed random numbers.

2010-01-30 Thread J65nko
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 4:30 AM, Rolf Nielsen listrea...@lazlarlyricon.com wrote: I am working on a project where I have the need to generate normally distributed random positive integers, preferably unsigned 64 bit (or even longer if possible) integers. More specifically, I will need the

Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-30 Thread Jeff Mitchell
Hello my friends, I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd 8.x). For awhile it was held back by very specific applications I had to support,

Re: Help! Upgrade from fbsd 5.4 to 8.x

2010-01-30 Thread Amitabh Kant
On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 9:38 AM, Jeff Mitchell skee...@skeleton.org wrote: Hello my friends, I've just noticed one of my beloved headless shell boxen is FreeBSD 5.4; its a workhorse I've been neglecting far too long and I'd really like to bring it up to 'current' (say fbsd