Re: Installation difficulties

2011-12-11 Thread R Skinner
On 12/11/11 16:01, Jeffry Killen wrote: Hello; I am not new to FreeBSD, but it has been a while since I worked with it. The last version I obtained from FreeBSD Mall is 7.2. The jewel case is marked with a date of May 2009, so it is a little behind. But I expected it to boot the i386 version

Re: Installation difficulties

2011-12-11 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 11/12/2011 06:01, Jeffry Killen wrote: So, I installed x-developer and attempted to install Apache from the included ports. None of the listed version would install: error code -1. 7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Inter-alia this means that there

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-11 Thread Ryan Coleman
On Dec 10, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Dec 9, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 09:38:59 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: It's still not malware, it's bloatware. Why would you not go to the development

bridging

2011-12-11 Thread saeedeh motlagh
hello everybody i have a problem in bridging my interfaces. i want to bridge my 4 interfaces and make switching in freebsd box but in doesn't work. with two interfaces the bridge works well and pass the traffic but for four interfaces in doesn't what is expected. you know i want to have a freebsd

pxebooting different versions/variants of FreeBSD

2011-12-11 Thread Dura Zell
Hi I'm planning to setup a machine wich should provide several versions of FreeBSD and their respective amd64 and x86 variants. Addtionally the user should have the option to install the selected os(es) locally. Currently I'm using pxelinux.0 from syslinux to create a text-based menu for

Re: bridging

2011-12-11 Thread Da Rock
On 12/11/11 23:31, saeedeh motlagh wrote: hello everybody i have a problem in bridging my interfaces. i want to bridge my 4 interfaces and make switching in freebsd box but in doesn't work. with two interfaces the bridge works well and pass the traffic but for four interfaces in doesn't what is

Re: Entropy Key for FreeBSD?

2011-12-11 Thread Maxim Khitrov
On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Per olof Ljungmark p...@intersonic.se wrote: Hi, Did anyone in the community try to adopt the Entropy Key http://www.entropykey.com/ for use with FreeBSD? As a non-programmer I would not even try but perhaps someone with better skills already did? FWIW

Re: pxebooting different versions/variants of FreeBSD

2011-12-11 Thread Erik Nørgaard
On 11/12/2011 13:18, Dura Zell wrote: Is there a way to circumvent the need need of the dhcp option root-path and set it instead manually via a config file or as parameter? If not: How can I achieve my goal of pxebooting the different versions of FreeBSD? Hi: No. The only thing you can do is

Re: blender - python32

2011-12-11 Thread Roland Smith
On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 05:35:17PM -0600, ajtiM wrote: H! I have fresh installed 9.0-RC3 FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 #0 and I use KDE 4. I like to install Blender 2.6 but: Required To Build: lang/python32 Required To Run: lang/python32 Installed Python on the system is 2.7. I don't like to update

Re: OT: C|Net's Download.com adware, spyware, malware hijinkx.

2011-12-11 Thread Chad Perrin
On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 05:32:00AM -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: On Dec 10, 2011, at 12:30 AM, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 9 Dec 2011 13:05:05 -0600, Ryan Coleman wrote: So, wait, Firefox is Malware? Did you notice that with FF4 they changed it so that you didn't get prompted on launch it

ath0 + wlan0 + spa + Apple Airport Extreme = No Joy

2011-12-11 Thread Christopher Hilton
Good day, I'm trying to get FreeBSD going on a soekris box with an atheros based D-Link PCI wifi card. I intend to use this combination to bridge a difficult network back to ethernet but right now I'm just trying to get the soekris associated to the network. The network is managed by an Apple

Re: blender - python32

2011-12-11 Thread ajtiM
On Sunday 11 December 2011 12:31:07 Roland Smith wrote: On Fri, Dec 09, 2011 at 05:35:17PM -0600, ajtiM wrote: H! I have fresh installed 9.0-RC3 FreeBSD 9.0-RC3 #0 and I use KDE 4. I like to install Blender 2.6 but: Required To Build: lang/python32 Required To Run: lang/python32

How to boot new kernel

2011-12-11 Thread Коньков Евгений
Hi Freebsd-questions. In system two disks now: # kenv | grep dev currdev=disk1s1a: loaddev=disk1s1a: loader_conf_files=/boot/device.hints /boot/loader.conf /boot/loader.conf.local vfs.root.mountfrom=ufs:/dev/ad8s1a kern.devalias.ada0=ad4 kern.devalias.ada1=ad8 one was with installed FreeBSD

Re: Installation difficulties

2011-12-11 Thread perryh
Matthew Seaman m.sea...@infracaninophile.co.uk wrote: 7.2 is out of support now, see: http://www.freebsd.org/releng/index.html Inter-alia this means that there won't be packages available on the FTP servers specifically for that version ... What, exactly, _is_ the policy on retention of the

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-11 Thread Foo JH
On 11/12/2011 6:21 AM, Robison, Dave wrote: I prefer having separate partitions because it's more in line with traditional unix systems, and in particular, I don't like letting users have unlimited access to /tmp. Pardon the noob question: will using Disk Quotas work to limit the damage

difference between cvsup and csup?

2011-12-11 Thread Foo JH
Hello guys, I notice FreeBSD is now using (and probably has been for a while) csup instead of cvsup. The parameters looking identical - at least from the no-gui perspective. Can anyone advise what the difference is, and perhaps educate me on how this came to be? Thanks.

pkg_add vs portmaster

2011-12-11 Thread Mage
Hello, why is that pkg_add -r x11/kde4 could not install kde4 (404 not found) but portmaster -P x11/kde4 did, however portmaster -P xorg didn't install xorg (it just reinstalled some modules) then pkg_add -r xorg installed it. I am a bit confused with these. I was reading this:

Re: 9.0 install and journaling

2011-12-11 Thread Da Rock
On 12/12/11 12:05, Foo JH wrote: On 11/12/2011 6:21 AM, Robison, Dave wrote: I prefer having separate partitions because it's more in line with traditional unix systems, and in particular, I don't like letting users have unlimited access to /tmp. Pardon the noob question: will using Disk

Re: difference between cvsup and csup?

2011-12-11 Thread Michael Powell
Foo JH wrote: Hello guys, I notice FreeBSD is now using (and probably has been for a while) csup instead of cvsup. The parameters looking identical - at least from the no-gui perspective. Can anyone advise what the difference is, and perhaps educate me on how this came to be? I'm

Re: difference between cvsup and csup?

2011-12-11 Thread Kevin Kinsey
On Mon, Dec 12, 2011 at 09:54:25AM +0800, Foo JH wrote: Hello guys, I notice FreeBSD is now using (and probably has been for a while) csup instead of cvsup. The parameters looking identical - at least from the no-gui perspective. Can anyone advise what the difference is, and perhaps

Certain users can't start python

2011-12-11 Thread Michael Ross
Hello, I am ... stuck. I've been trying to setup mercurials web frontend with apache, but apache won't start python. Not as cgi-script, not with mod_python. Investigating, I found this not only to be a problem with apache. Situation now: Users michael and root can run python. All others

Re: difference between cvsup and csup?

2011-12-11 Thread Robert Huff
Michael Powell writes: Csup is a rewrite of cvsup in the C language, and as such can be included as part of the base operating system. It is only linked against a few system libraries. This also means it can be built using the same tools and system compiler whenever the system itself

Re: bridging

2011-12-11 Thread saeedeh motlagh
my freebsd is 8.2 and i have four interfaces which two of them are gbeth and two others are igb. i think the interfaces are ok beacuse when i bridge two interfaces, it works fine. i use the below command to create my bridge: ifconfig bridge0 create ifconfig bridge0 addm gbeth0 addm igb0 addm igb1

Re: Thank you for bsdstats!

2011-12-11 Thread Hub- FreeBSD
Since this may by of interest to others, including those maintaining ports, I've just created a dump of the history data for ports and versions reported in … not the reporting ports is optional, there appears to only be about 10% of the hosts that report in port information … The dump is

Re: bridging

2011-12-11 Thread Da Rock
On 12/12/11 15:49, saeedeh motlagh wrote: my freebsd is 8.2 and i have four interfaces which two of them are gbeth and two others are igb. i think the interfaces are ok beacuse when i bridge two interfaces, it works fine. i use the below command to create my bridge: ifconfig bridge0 create

Re: difference between cvsup and csup?

2011-12-11 Thread Manolis Kiagias
On 12/12/2011 7:39 πμ, Robert Huff wrote: Michael Powell writes: Csup is a rewrite of cvsup in the C language, and as such can be included as part of the base operating system. It is only linked against a few system libraries. This also means it can be built using the same tools and

Re[2]: How to boot new kernel

2011-12-11 Thread Коньков Евгений
HI, krad. How I can figure out the correspondence of bios drive number and freebsd numbering? Have a look at boot.config file you should be able to do something there On Dec 11, 2011 8:57 PM, Kon'kov Evgenij [1]kes-...@yandex.ru wrote: Hi Freebsd-questions. In