Re: disyfiles

2010-12-31 Thread Dave
On 30 Dec 2010 at 18:17, wayne mitchell wrote: hey i have a freeBSD 8.1 RELEASE system working off-line and a windows b'band connection my b'band connection has downloads limits i would like to get a hold of all 'relevant' distilfes - the current size of the complete distfiles tree is 140GB

Re: freeBSDFoundation donate problem

2010-12-31 Thread Arthur Chance
On 12/31/10 00:43, Frank Shute wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 10:04:23PM +, Paul Macdonald wrote: I've just tried again to donate to the foundation for the end of year push, but 3 UK based cards all failed on the groundspring interface ( 2 x visa, 1 x mastercard, all had funds obv)

Re: Where to post FreeBSD tutorials?

2010-12-31 Thread Xn Nooby
Thanks, the Wiki and Howto page are just what I was looking for! I had only used the mailing lists so far. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to

Re: load windows

2010-12-31 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-12-31 05:09, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 11:39:45 +0800, xinyou yanyxy@gmail.com wrote: Help: I installed 8.2 today , I think I have forgot installed boot loader manager . When I was finished and reboot . The system just has bsd loader I can use F2 load windows

Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed

2010-12-31 Thread Leslie Jensen
On 2010-12-30 18:16, Erik Trulsson wrote: On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 08:19:00AM -0800, Chip Camden wrote: Hello fellow BSDophiles, The chromium port is trying my patience. I'm not using it now, because of its unpatched vulnerabilities. Buit I'm keeping it installed, so I'll be notified by

NIS server doesn't receive its own passwd entries to nsswitch

2010-12-31 Thread Florian Wagner
Hi, I've just configured FreeBSD 8.2-RC1 to act as a NIS server and as a client to itself. What works: A Linux client can query NIS. As in ypcat passwd/group and getent passwd/group show the entries from the server. The server can query its on NIS provided groups (ypcat passwd/group).

Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed

2010-12-31 Thread Dan Langille
Bingo! Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. Although it took a while to figure out how to do it. Suggestion for Freshports: add an add to watch list button on the page for each port. This has been in place for some time. From http://www.freshports.org/faq.php :

Re: Why are YT vids on FreeBSD all about hacking MSN? (solved)

2010-12-31 Thread Balázs Mátéffy
Hi, I don't know about this, but you should definitely check out bsdconferences. http://www.youtube.com/bsdconferences Regards, MB. On 31 December 2010 02:13, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: I wanted to watch some videos about FreeBSD, so I went to Youtube and searched on FreeBSD. Then I

Re: load windows

2010-12-31 Thread Bruce Cran
On Fri, 31 Dec 2010 14:04:59 +0100 Leslie Jensen les...@eskk.nu wrote: I would suggest you use a Live CD (Partition Magic) and set the Windows partition active. You will then boot into Windows and I would then recommend that you install the EasyBCD bootloader and ad your BSD installation to

Re: Detecting updates to ports not installed

2010-12-31 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Dan Langille on Friday, 31 December 2010: Bingo! Thanks, that's exactly what I needed. Although it took a while to figure out how to do it. Suggestion for Freshports: add an add to watch list button on the page for each port. This has been in place for some time. From

How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Martes G Wigglesworth
Greetings. I have been searching for solutions to the problem of jails not being truly encapsulated environments. I have looked at the Xen information for freebsd and it appears to be still a bit premature, as compared to NetBSD. Does anyone have any good resources or advice on how to

Re: MySQL 5.5.7-5.5.8 Gotcha!

2010-12-31 Thread Volodymyr Kostyrko
30.12.2010 14:23, Odhiambo Washington wrote): I am seeing a problem I am unable to solve after upgrading from 5.5.7 - 5.5.8. I am installing Request Tracket and I get the following error (which is in no way related to RT, I think): cut Character set 'latin1' is not a compiled character set and

XDM not showing login screen

2010-12-31 Thread Alain G. Fabry
Hi, I'm trying to get my XDMCP to work, but for some reason the XDM daemon doesn't reply to XDMCP requests. I see the XDMCP packet arriving on my xdm server harley# tcpdump port 177 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full protocol decode listening on bge0, link-type EN10MB

Re: Where to post FreeBSD tutorials?

2010-12-31 Thread Giorgos Keramidas
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 20:17:31 -0500, Xn Nooby xno...@gmail.com wrote: If I write a document about how to do something with FreeBSD, is there a good place to post it, or a link to it? Something like how to edit a video in FreeBSD, not official documentation. I usually have to google things to

Succeed in a Tough Economy!

2010-12-31 Thread Business Network
Succeed in a Tough Economy! A small business can turn a bad economy into a great opportunity. According to a = recent study, more business owners and managers are turning to E-mail Marketing then = ever before. Every other type of advertising has

Re: XDM not showing login screen

2010-12-31 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 31/12/2010 7:07 μ.μ., Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my XDMCP to work, but for some reason the XDM daemon doesn't reply to XDMCP requests. I see the XDMCP packet arriving on my xdm server harley# tcpdump port 177 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v or -vv for full

Re: XDM not showing login screen

2010-12-31 Thread Anton Shterenlikht
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 06:07:34PM +0100, Alain G. Fabry wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get my XDMCP to work, but for some reason the XDM daemon doesn't reply to XDMCP requests. I see the XDMCP packet arriving on my xdm server harley# tcpdump port 177 tcpdump: verbose output suppressed, use -v

cshrc to bashrc??

2010-12-31 Thread Gary Kline
Anybody know if there is a utility that transforms the /root/.cshrc into a bash RC file?After decades, I'm giving up on the csh stuff. Need something simpler. tia, guys, and hope 2011 is better for all of us! gary -- Gary Kline kl...@thought.org

Re: HDD READ/Timeout messages after 8.2 Upgrade

2010-12-31 Thread Vladislav V. Prodan
31.12.2010 4:10, Derrick Ryalls wrote: Any pointers? Upgrade to an old build FreeBSD 8.1 Similar problems with working HDD in 9.0-CURRENT -- Vladislav V. Prodan VVP24-UANIC +38[067]4584408 +38[099]4060508 vla...@jabber.ru ___

Re: HDD READ/Timeout messages after 8.2 Upgrade

2010-12-31 Thread Derrick Ryalls
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 1:52 PM, Vladislav V. Prodan univers...@ukr.netwrote: 31.12.2010 4:10, Derrick Ryalls wrote: Any pointers? Upgrade to an old build FreeBSD 8.1 Similar problems with working HDD in 9.0-CURRENT Adding ahci_load=YES to loader.conf solved the problem. Running a hdd

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Da Rock
On 01/01/11 02:34, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: Greetings. I have been searching for solutions to the problem of jails not being truly encapsulated environments. I have looked at the Xen information for freebsd and it appears to be still a bit premature, as compared to NetBSD. Does

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 01/01/11 02:34, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: Thanks in advance, for any input. Have you checked into Xen specifically and how it works? I think you're where I was at a while ago, and a little

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Da Rock
On 01/01/11 10:19, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au mailto:freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: On 01/01/11 02:34, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: Thanks in advance, for any input. Have you

Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop

2010-12-31 Thread Michael Powell
Ian Smith wrote: In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 343, Issue 5, Message: 10 On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 11:02:45 -0500 Chris Brennan xa...@xaerolimit.net wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2010 at 2:23 AM, Michael Powell nightre...@hotmail.comwrote: Try zeroing out the mbr: Boot a LiveFS CD,

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Martes G Wigglesworth
On 12/31/2010 07:26 PM, Da Rock wrote: Have you checked into Xen specifically and how it works? I am currently researching how Xen works. I am finding the top-level information a bit lacking in low-level information. I came across the website with all the objects for Xen, however, I have

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Martes G Wigglesworth
Just wanted to clarify: I do understand that Xen runs under the dom0 OS however, I keep forgetting to use the correct terminology. sorry about that. I guess the requirement is that FreeBSD needs kernel work to run as a hypervisor-aware dom0 Operating system. I may want to check on what I

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Da Rock
On 01/01/11 10:44, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: On 12/31/2010 07:26 PM, Da Rock wrote: Have you checked into Xen specifically and how it works? I am currently researching how Xen works. I am finding the top-level information a bit lacking in low-level information. I came across the website

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Da Rock
On 01/01/11 10:56, Martes G Wigglesworth wrote: Just wanted to clarify: I do understand that Xen runs under the dom0 OS however, I keep forgetting to use the correct terminology. sorry about that. I guess the requirement is that FreeBSD needs kernel work to run as a hypervisor-aware dom0

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Thats why Xen usually gets rated faster- its not actually on an OS because it is one. Thats classified as a type 1. The others have to go through the host OS first to get something, so it slows them

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Adam == Adam Vande More amvandem...@gmail.com writes: Adam Please quit spouting this nonsense. He's asking for facts not Adam uninformed opinions. In both type 1 and 2 hypervisiors the guests Adam run in a protected CPU state(s) and in that regard they are Adam functionally equivalent. If

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Da Rock
On 01/01/11 11:09, Adam Vande More wrote: On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au mailto:freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Thats why Xen usually gets rated faster- its not actually on an OS because it is one. Thats

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Martes G Wigglesworth
On 12/31/2010 08:04 PM, Da Rock wrote: Depends on what you mean by 'fair'. I think you can now determine CPU usage in jails, even allocate cores. I think the man pages can tell you more about that, and the docs on freebsd.org. You can unmask some devices within the jail and allow only certain

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread Adam Vande More
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 8:27 PM, Martes G Wigglesworth mailinglistmem...@mgwigglesworth.net wrote: On 12/31/2010 08:04 PM, Da Rock wrote: Depends on what you mean by 'fair'. I think you can now determine CPU usage in jails, even allocate cores. I think the man pages can tell you more about

HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Michael D. Norwick
Happy New Year! I bought a new HP 2010i LCD monitor that is supposed to give me 1600x900 resolution at 60 Hz to replace a generic 19 C.R.T. monitor that did 1024x768. The machine has an ATI Radeon video card and I am using a V.G.A. cable not H.D.M.I. I reconfigured my /etc/xorg.conf using

Re: How can I implement true vps with FreeBSD as a host?

2010-12-31 Thread David Brodbeck
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Da Rock freebsd-questi...@herveybayaustralia.com.au wrote: Have you checked into Xen specifically and how it works? I think you're where I was at a while ago, and a little investigation will change your mind. FWIW Xen is a hypervisor, and platforms need to be

Re: HP 2010i 1600x900 screen sizing issue - PCBSD 8.1

2010-12-31 Thread Michael D. Norwick
On 12/31/2010 21:07, Michael D. Norwick wrote: Happy New Year! I bought a new HP 2010i LCD monitor that is supposed to give me 1600x900 resolution at 60 Hz to replace a generic 19 C.R.T. monitor that did 1024x768. The machine has an ATI Radeon video card and I am using a V.G.A. cable not