I have a number of servers that I am about to upgrade to FreeBSD 9.0. The
processors all have the ability to run i386 or amd64. The machines all have 2
GB memory which is more than adequate for their intended use. Some of these
are replacing very old equipment that is being retired and did
Hey there,
I recently discovered that the vmware-tools package is compiled against
libintl.so.8 -- yes, this is probably something that should be fixed at
the vmware level, but VMware's love for FreeBSD isn't there.
As a workaround, it might be useful to have a port which compiles an older
On 11/06/2012 07:20, Doug Hardie wrote:
I have a number of servers that I am about to upgrade to FreeBSD 9.0.
The processors all have the ability to run i386 or amd64. The
machines all have 2 GB memory which is more than adequate for their
intended use. Some of these are replacing very old
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 02:11:43 -0400 (EDT), Dan Mahoney, System Admin wrote:
As a workaround, it might be useful to have a port which compiles an older
version of libintl (potential security issues notwithstanding, since it's
assumed it will only be used by this one tool).
Maybe using the port
from Gary Aitken free...@dreamchaser.org:
I'm trying to build a script to rebuild and reinstall everything I have
installed from ports. I don't want to have to keep checking on it and filling
out the
+appropriate check boxes for options. I naively assumed:
for port in $ports
do
cd
On Monday 11 June 2012 00:03:59 Daniel Feenberg wrote:
It does occur to me that /etc is not a felicitous place to keep this
information, but given the desirability of dumping filesystems in read
only state, placing the dump dates in the filesystem itself isn't
feasible.
Dumping with the -L
In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 418, Issue 19, Message: 23
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 16:56:49 -0400 Jerry je...@seibercom.net wrote:
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 22:06:26 +0200
Julian H. Stacey articulated:
[..]
As a start here's : http://berklix.org/uefi/
URLs welcome. Contact names welcome.
On Jun 11, 2012, at 12:27 AM, Subhro Sankha Kar wrote:
Hello Sean,
Can you run FF from a terminal and report back what you see?
Thanks
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Thank you for the reply.
I have cured the problem.
To fix the
Another thread, which I seem to have lost, was talking about
dump and sizing its cache.
Per my promise, appended is the log of this morning's level 0 dump,
using C=32. THe system is -CURRENT from March, using AMD Phemon II
x4/3ghz and SATA 3gbit drives (one internal, one
I want to sent me configuration to build mail server step by step
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There are two advantages that come to mind quickly.
With amd64 you could install more than 4 gigs of ram and have it
recognized. With i386 if you need to do this pae would need to be
installed, which FreeBSD doc pages say is if beta quality.
I bet that amd64 will get more dev attention.
On Jun
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Robert Huff wrote:
Another thread, which I seem to have lost, was talking about
dump and sizing its cache.
Per my promise, appended is the log of this morning's level 0 dump,
using C=32. THe system is -CURRENT from March, using AMD Phemon II
x4/3ghz and
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:14 AM, Robert Huff roberth...@rcn.com wrote:
DUMP: finished in 1746 seconds, throughput 19568 KBytes/sec
Looks like one of your disks must be USB.
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Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com writes:
...
- startx fails when moused enabled
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0
Device busy.
(EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for PS/2 Mouse
(EE) config/hal: NewInputDeviceRequest failed (8)
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:22:51 -0500, jb jb.1234a...@gmail.com wrote:
I tested it by rebooting 3 times.
I have 2 mouses: Lenovo Thinkpad stick and external usb mouse.
moused_nondefault_enable=NO perhaps?
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On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:23:20AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
It is fairly easy to understand both sides in this discussion. When
Microsoft supporters refer to open-source software as open-sore or
socialist-software the FOSS community becomes enraged. However, when
the open-source community
On Fri, Jun 08, 2012 at 06:26:16AM +, jb wrote:
Chinese advertising of soccer championship Euro 2012
http://avaxnews.com/wow/Chinese_Advertising_UEFA_Euro_2012.html
That . . . was nuts. What just happened?
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:11:11 -0600
Chad Perrin articulated:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:23:20AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
It is fairly easy to understand both sides in this discussion. When
Microsoft supporters refer to open-source software as open-sore or
socialist-software the FOSS community
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 1:36 AM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com wrote:
Waitman Gobble wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com
wrote:
Waitman Gobble wrote:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 1:56 PM, Julian H. Stacey j...@berklix.com
wrote:
Hi,
I have a Xorg server (x11-servers/xorg-server) running receiving
input from a synaptics touchpad at /dev/psm0. I would like to run
a Xephyr (x11-servers/xephyr) instance in this server that would
take input from a different, dedicated pointing device, in this
case a USB mouse at /dev/ums0.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:11:11 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:23:20AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
It is fairly easy to understand both sides in this discussion. When
Microsoft supporters refer to open-source
Hello
What happens if you run without a xorg.conf? Xorg has become pretty good at
guessing correct settings these days.
Thanks
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Working and Playing with FreeBSD since 2002
On 11-Jun-2012, at 5:01 PM, Anton Shterenlikht wrote:
My X is unusable since
On 11-Jun-2012, at 11:02 PM, Gary Aitken wrote:
I've done the following after having a running system with a running mysql on
it:
moved user accounts, although no logical move:
/usr/home/foo was = /hd1/foo
now
/usr/home = /hd1/home and /hd1/foo is now /hd1/home/foo
repartitioned the
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:44:11 -0600
Chad Perrin articulated:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 10:11:11 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated:
On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 07:23:20AM -0400, Jerry wrote:
It is fairly easy to understand both sides in this
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, jb wrote:
Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com writes:
...
- startx fails when moused enabled
(EE) xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/psm0
Device busy.
(EE) PS/2 Mouse: cannot open input device
(EE) PreInit returned NULL for PS/2 Mouse
(EE) config/hal:
Gary Aitken wrote:
I've done the following after having a running system with a running mysql
on it:
moved user accounts, although no logical move:
/usr/home/foo was = /hd1/foo
now
/usr/home = /hd1/home and /hd1/foo is now /hd1/home/foo
repartitioned the SSD and restored the system
Warren Block writes:
Another thread, which I seem to have lost, was talking about
dump and sizing its cache.
Per my promise, appended is the log of this morning's level 0 dump,
using C=32. THe system is -CURRENT from March, using AMD Phemon II
x4/3ghz and SATA 3gbit drives
Adam Vande More writes:
DUMP: finished in 1746 seconds, throughput 19568 KBytes/sec
Looks like one of your disks must be USB.
Source disk: SATA, I believe 3mbit
Target disk: e-SATA, which may be limited to 1.5 mbit/sec.
Robert Huff
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:46:49PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 11:44:11 -0600 Chad Perrin articulated:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 12:59:46PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
Your paranoia is kicking in again isn't it Chad. Anyway, to address
your sports analogy, if I walk into a NY City bar
Gary Aitken wrote:
To: FreeBSD Mailing List freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: mysqld startup issue
I've done the following after having a running system with a running mysql on
it:
moved user accounts, although no logical move:
/usr/home/foo was = /hd1/foo
now
/usr/home =
Hi all. I am in desperate need of some help with ZFS (maybe GPT) and
serial consoles. I use 19200 for my console speed for everything, so I
recompiled the boot blocks using BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=19200 in
/etc/make.conf. I then ran this to install new blocks to my two drives in
the mirror pair:
Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com writes:
...
I have 2 mouses: Lenovo Thinkpad stick and external usb mouse.
devd runs moused when USB mice are attached, even if moused_enable=NO
is set in rc.conf.
That's not a bad thing. It seems like enabling moused is needed
somehow, maybe just
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 13:44:36 -0600
Chad Perrin articulated:
As stated above in my latest response, it is difficult to counter a
statement by you since you don't really state anything. You say, I
have heard of such things referred to as being socialist,
fascist, ... (truncated by me) etcetera.
Jerry, Chad: please unsubscribe me from your mailing list. Thanks!!
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hi, sometime ago i asked a question about how to format a text, some
people told me to use groff, but i would like to know how was file http://ipwn.altervista.org/files/Stoll,%20Clifford%20-%20The%20Cuckoo%27s%20Egg.txt
fomatted.
thanks in advance.
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it is easy to cvs or cvsup ports and get a whole slew of ports in
/usr/ports/distfiles, but too often, using portmaster [or another
tool], I'll have only one of two ports that fail because they are
either 1) broken, or 2) out of date. is there any way I can grab
just the ones that fail to
Ugh. Operator error.
I assumed from the docs there had to be a my.cnf file someplace,
if only to serve as the system default;
and that the my.cnf file was directing everything else.
It turns out there doesn't have to be one anywhere.
My thought process was hijacked by the errors produced
from
On 06/11/12 13:48, Robert Bonomi wrote:
Unfortunately, mysqld won't start:
[ sneck ]
120611 10:55:52 [ERROR] Can't open the mysql.plugin table. Please run
mysql_upgrade to create it.
Have you tried doing what the error message _tells_ you to do ?
nope, and yup
nope, because the docs
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
it is easy to cvs or cvsup ports and get a whole slew of ports in
/usr/ports/distfiles, but too often, using portmaster [or another
tool], I'll have only one of two ports that fail because they are
either 1) broken, or 2) out
Bill == Bill Yuan byc...@gmail.com writes:
Bill I want to create a white list MAC address, Only the machine which it's
MAC
Bill in the white list will be allowed, all others will be blocked.
Bad idea. Since (a) every MAC address that *is* allowed is transmitted
in the clear and (b) it's
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 3:04 AM, Keith Seyffarth w...@weif.net wrote:
Friday I installed Chromium again because it would be nice to have a
browser to test in other than Firefox and Opera. It was installed using
portinstall -R chromium, which *appeared* to function properly.
However, trying
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:57 PM, i pwn pwnedom...@gmail.com wrote:
hi, sometime ago i asked a question about how to format a text, some people
told me to use groff, but i would like to know how was file
http://ipwn.altervista.org/files/Stoll,%20Clifford%20-%20The%20Cuckoo%27s%20Egg.txt
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 04:53:11PM -0400, Jerry wrote:
. . .
You obviously aren't serious. I can't believe I let you string me along
with this fantasy for so long.
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i pwn pwnedom...@gmail.com wrote:
hi, sometime ago i asked a question about how to format a text, some
people told me to use groff, but i would like to know how was file
http://ipwn.altervista.org/files/Stoll,%20Clifford%20-%20The%20Cuckoo%27s%20Egg.txt
fomatted.
thanks in advance.
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 06:14:52PM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote:
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:14:52 -0400
From: Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade?
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Gary Kline
This thread has united the open source community into doing something useful
and constructive. Thanks guys. You really showed 'em.
-Modulok-
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On 11-06-2012 23:40, Alejandro Imass wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:57 PM, i pwnpwnedom...@gmail.com wrote:
hi, sometime ago i asked a question about how to format a text, some people
told me to use groff, but i would like to know how was file
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to
FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux).
FreeBSD9 on x86_64.
Cron is running:
$ ps -ax|grep cron
1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s
2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep cron
$
I have a syntactically valid crontab:
$
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:04 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to
FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux).
FreeBSD9 on x86_64.
Cron is running:
$ ps -ax|grep cron
1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base.
What's in your shell scripts?
Thanks for the quick response.
$ pkg_info|grep bash
bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne Again SHell
$ which bash
/bin/bash
$
$ less
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 7:25 PM, Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
cat /etc/shells
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On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:21:12 -0500, Adam Vande More wrote:
You really have bash in /bin ? Are your scripts executable? What does
/var/log/cron say?
$ file /bin/bash
/bin/bash: symbolic link to `/usr/local/bin/bash'
$ sudo tail -50 /var/log/cron (result snipped at 02:22:00 for brevity)
Jun
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:36:28 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
cat /etc/shells
$ cat /etc/shells
# $FreeBSD: release/9.0.0/etc/shells 59717 2000-04-27 21:58:46Z ache $
#
# List of acceptable shells for chpass(1).
# Ftpd will not allow users to connect who are not using
# one of these shells.
On 6/11/2012 9:25 PM, Walter Hurry wrote:
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 19:10:21 -0700, Michael Sierchio wrote:
Have you installed bash? It's not in the system base.
What's in your shell scripts?
Thanks for the quick response.
$ pkg_info|grep bash
bash-4.2.28 The GNU Project's Bourne
I have a ASUS laptop that came with Windows 7. I finally
ended up with XP on one partition and Ubuntu on the other.
ASUS only supports the Windows 7 OS with this particular
architect. I want to keep XP on one partition and put FreeBSD
on the other partition ( I already have created). The problem
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 17:31:10 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 06:14:52PM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote:
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:14:52 -0400
From: Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade?
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:36 PM, Arlen McIntyre fallofz...@gmail.com wrote:
I cannot afford to buy FreeBSD.
Dada is not dead!
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On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:50:15 +, pwnedomina wrote:
On 11-06-2012 23:40, Alejandro Imass wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 5:57 PM, i pwnpwnedom...@gmail.com wrote:
hi, sometime ago i asked a question about how to format a text, some people
told me to use groff, but i would like to know how
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 21:36:00 -0600, Arlen McIntyre wrote:
How can I get FreeBSD on
my other partition and have a dual OS system without the boot installation?
Qustion part one:
Prepare a USB stick with the FreeBSD memstick edition.
You'll find instructions on how to do that on the FreeBSD
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 8:31 PM, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote:
On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 06:14:52PM -0400, Robert Simmons wrote:
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 18:14:52 -0400
From: Robert Simmons rsimmo...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: any way to grab just One port to upgrade?
To:
Walter Hurry walterhu...@gmail.com wrote:
As the subject says, this is probably a newbie question (I am new to
FreeBSD but quite experienced at Linux).
FreeBSD9 on x86_64.
Cron is running:
$ ps -ax|grep cron
1513 ?? Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/cron -s
2283 0 S+ 0:00.00 grep
On Mon, 11 Jun 2012, Arlen McIntyre wrote:
I have a ASUS laptop that came with Windows 7. I finally
ended up with XP on one partition and Ubuntu on the other.
ASUS only supports the Windows 7 OS with this particular
architect. I want to keep XP on one partition and put FreeBSD
on the other
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