Re: Unable to build the print/lyx port

2011-08-18 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:55:42 -1000 Open Slate Project o...@aloha.com wrote: I was unsuccessful in posting directly so I am forwarding from another account. Apologies for format. Gary Dunn garydun...@gmail.com wrote: FreeBSD Questions freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Unable to build the

Can *you* UFS snapshot a filesystem with 9.0-BETA1?

2011-08-18 Thread Hugo Silva
I'm wondering. On a virtual machine (amd64 HVM+PV), it's crashing every time. Not sure if this is SNAFU, as I had never used ufs snapshots on freebsd before. After running mksnap_ffs, ssh stops working (a telnet session doesn't show the sshd banner). The ssh session where the command was run from

Re: single user login

2011-08-18 Thread Gerald Stoller
I tried 2 of the suggested solutions, first the one that said when I get the # prompt I should type in boot -s and the second that when I get to the ok prompt I should type in boot -s. With the first I got the response boot: permission denied, and with the second I go to the the regular boot

Did a patch get overwritten?

2011-08-18 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
Hello all, I have a patch that I applied to the FreeBSD source in /usr/src/. I then executed a make buildworld that succeeded. I ran make release to generate media. However, it looks as though the driver I patched was updated by CVS during the make release process as seen in the make

Re: Did a patch get overwritten?

2011-08-18 Thread Herbert J. Skuhra
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 12:20:41 + Miller, Vincent (Rick) vmil...@verisign.com wrote: Hello all, I have a patch that I applied to the FreeBSD source in /usr/src/. I then executed a make buildworld that succeeded. I ran make release to generate media. However, it looks as though the

Re: Did a patch get overwritten?

2011-08-18 Thread Miller, Vincent (Rick)
Awesome! Thanks Herbert! I thought I was intimately familiar with that manpage as much as I'd read it this week. Apparently, not intimately enough. I appreciate you pointing that out for me. == Vincent (Rick) Miller Systems Engineer vmil...@verisign.com t: 703-948-4395 21345 Ridgetop Cir

Re: looking for a spammer/virii/malware .... on my system

2011-08-18 Thread alexus
ok su-3.2# tcpdump -nnAvvvw webmail.west.cox.net 'dst host 68.6.19.1 and (dst port 80 or 443)' tcpdump: listening on bce0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes Got 0 let's see what I capture... On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Paul Schmehl pschmehl_li...@tx.rr.com wrote: --On

Re: looking for a spammer/virii/malware .... on my system

2011-08-18 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Aug 18, 2011, at 9:36 AM, alexus wrote: su-3.2# tcpdump -nnAvvvw webmail.west.cox.net 'dst host 68.6.19.1 and (dst port 80 or 443)' tcpdump: listening on bce0, link-type EN10MB (Ethernet), capture size 96 bytes Got 0 let's see what I capture... You're going to capture traffic of people

Re: kernel panics involving NFS+RPCSEC_GSS

2011-08-18 Thread Clinton Adams
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Clinton Adams clinton.ad...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, Kernel panics if clients hit the nfs server sufficiently hard - happens repeatedly with 13 clients logging in at the same approximate time, using nfsv4 mounted homes. server is running freebsd

Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-18 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing filesystem without destroying it? I'm assuming there are definite advantages to using gjournal over softupdates? -- Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing

Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-18 Thread Adam Vande More
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 5:43 PM, Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing filesystem without destroying it? You can't really(it can be done but requires exception circumstance). If you didn't take these steps during initial install

kernel panics involving NFS+RPCSEC_GSS

2011-08-18 Thread Clinton Adams
Hello, Kernel panics if clients hit the nfs server sufficiently hard - happens repeatedly with 13 clients logging in at the same approximate time, using nfsv4 mounted homes. server is running freebsd 8.2-RELEASE-p2. clients are linux 2.6.38-10 Running a memtest on the server now to rule out bad

new to os

2011-08-18 Thread scott mcclellan
I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis).   Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me 30 years - on a TRS-80). I know remember extremely little of OS

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Bernt Hansson
On 2011-08-19 00:18, scott mcclellan wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me 30 years - on a

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT), scott mcclellan wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Pick FreeBSD as an OS, it will be a benefit for your UNIX skills and your productivity, as well as for your opinion about

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Rod Person
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT) scott mcclellan rockabye...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Frank Shute
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 03:18:09PM -0700, scott mcclellan wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me

Automounter nfs woes

2011-08-18 Thread Da Rock
I'm a late starter on this (been no need until now), but I'm now trying to get my laptop to run automounter/amd to work on a nfs config. I installed automounter from ports and got it working beautifully for removable devices, but nfs is eluding me. I believe my problem lies more with amd-

Re: Enabling gjournal without destroying a filesystem?

2011-08-18 Thread perryh
Conrad J. Sabatier conr...@cox.net wrote: Is there any way to enable gjournal on an already existing filesystem without destroying it? Yes, provided the existing filesystem is not using the last block of its provider (partition), but you'll have to put the journal on a separate provider from

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, scott mcclellan wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me 30 years - on a

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Al Plant
Lars Eighner wrote: On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, scott mcclellan wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Currently run Wimdows (point and click), and would like to gravitate back to DOS (this is a thing of the ancient past for me

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Alejandro Imass
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 7:21 PM, Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote: [...] Furthermore, I always thought the TRS-80 ran CP/M, not DOS, but I could be wrong as I (1st) didn't do any research on it (first sin!) and (2nd) don't own one so I could check. They ran many things. I had several, even

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Lars Eighner
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Al Plant wrote: Aloha Lars, You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can read them for transfer to a contemporary program? I don't know of anything. If I recall correctly,

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Chip Camden
Quoth Lars Eighner on Thursday, 18 August 2011: On Thu, 18 Aug 2011, Al Plant wrote: Aloha Lars, You mentioned WP5 in this thread. I have some docs on disks that were created in WP5. You know any FreeBSD based app like abiword that can read them for transfer to a contemporary program?

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread Conrad J. Sabatier
On Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:18:09 -0700 (PDT) scott mcclellan rockabye...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm looking to try something different with my machine (or maybe I'm going through a midlife crisis). Hey, learning new things is never bad. Not to do so is to stagnate. I was in my late 30s myself when I

Re: new to os

2011-08-18 Thread perryh
Lars Eighner luvbeas...@larseighner.com wrote: You might, for example, still have your copy of WP 5 -- I do. But printers that work with the printer drivers are now museum pieces ... With the notable exception of PostScript printers. WP5 probably had a driver for the Apple LaserWriter, and

ZFS and NFS or CIFS

2011-08-18 Thread Chris Brennan
Greetings! I have several ZFS volumes set up on my FreeBSD 8.2 (32-bit) server at home and I am trying to figure out how to set up a NFS and/or CIFS share of the various volumes I have created and for the life of me, I can't figure it out. I don't really care which one or both right now (I